Showing posts with label Highasakite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Highasakite. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Highasakite Release New Video


Check out "5 Million Miles", the new video from Highasakite. You can pick up the single HERE.


The music video follows Ingrid Helene HÃ¥vik on a journey through various different locations in Norway. Taking the viewer through rough and industrial tunnels and harbour scenes, shots from the beautiful Norwegian countryside, and glossy, heavily lighted indoor studio settings. 

Speaking on the making of the video, Ingrid said: “The shoot took about two days. Two very long days - we weren’t finished until 4am on the last day. We were shooting in and around Oslo, and the tunnel shots were about an hour out of the city in a place called Gran. I haven't worked with a production team that large before. There were so many people involved, and it was quite scary at first. I had a really great stylist thats called Afaf Ali. I work with her as often as I can. I remember that I worked with a crow once in a previous video, but that horse was amazing. It was so huge, but still very calm and kind.” 

To get the exciting and dynamic framing and camera movement, the car the video was filmed with had to be lifted up in the air by heavy crane systems, pushed around on dolly wheels and dragged on the back of a low loader among other things – resulting in a music video you never would guess is shot through the windshield of a car.

Friday, August 26, 2016

Highasakite To Play Rough Trade, 9/6

Photo credit: Tonje Thilesen

 Phoebe Starr
 Tuesday, September 6
64 N 9th Street
Brooklyn, NY
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM
21+

Highasakite released Camp Echo in May 2016. You can pick it up HERE.

Friday, May 16, 2014

Upcoming: Highasakite at Mercury Lounge, TONIGHT, 5/16


Norway’s Highasakite kick off their US tour tonight in New York.  See below for more details and dates.

Highasakite released their album, Silent Treatment, in April 2014.

Faces On Film
Friday, May 16
217 E Houston Street
New York, NY
Doors: 7:30PM
21+

Tour Dates


Monday, March 11, 2013

Highasakite To Make NY Debut With Two Shows


Norwegian band Highasakite, whose EP, In and out of weeks, came out last week here in the US, will be making their New York debut with a pair of shows. First, they will be on the LES at Mercury Lounge on Wednesday, March 20 at 8PM and it will cost you $10.  The following night, Thursday, March 21 they will be over in Brooklyn at Glasslands.  It happens at 10PM and will cost you $10.  See below for full details.


Highasakite
Tall Ships
Wednesday, March 20
Mercury Lounge
217 E Houston Street
New York, NY
Doors: 6:30 pm
Tickets $10
21+


Highasakite
Luxury Liners
Thursday March 21
Glasslands Gallery
289 Kent Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
Doors: 8:30 PM
Tickets $10
21+


Highasakite inhabits their own rare musical landscape, a place of long dark shadows, sudden flashes of glittering light, brooding silences and unexpected explosions of fierce percussion. Ingrid HÃ¥vik’s surrealistic lyrics and ardent vocals float out of another time and place, drawing you down into the breathless maelstrom created by her band mates. Progressive rock, Norwegian folk music, jazzy tribal drumming, spaced out synthesizers, zither and autoharp come together to create a deep, mysterious resonance, echoing the sounds your hear in the midnight dreams that often seem more real than anything you experience during your waking hours. Imagine Phil Spector producing Cluster, with a dash of Radiohead on the side, and you’ll have the general idea, but Highasakite brings their own singular vision to the party.

The band took flight when HÃ¥vik and drummer Trond Bersu met while studying jazz at the Trondheim Jazz Conservatory. They started as a duo, with Bersu on drums and HÃ¥vik singing and playing zither. After a few gigs, they enlisted producer Thomas Dahl (Krøyt) to help them capture the sounds they were hearing in their heads. “We wanted to combine the rhythm patterns I was composing with 60s American pop, Norwegian folk music and synthesizers,” Bersu says. With Dahl producing and playing bass and guitar, and their friend Øystein Skar contributing his synthesizer wizardry, they worked for six months to produce a collection of songs cryptically titled All that floats will rain. This was an immediate success and Highasakite was named the best new act of 2012 by many Norwegian magazines and newspapers.

With their reputation in Norway secure, Highasakite is setting their sights on the American market with In and out of weeks. The five-song mini-album will introduce America to the band’s highly emotional music and their distinctive approach to songwriting and arranging. Tribal drums and throbbing, euphoric synthesizer open “Son of a Bitch,” a mid tempo rocker that alternates between HÃ¥vik’s propulsive, tongue twisting verses and wordless trills, underscored by Dahl’s swooping bass. “In and out of weeks” is a tense, moody ballad full of long sustained guitar notes, vast washes of spacey keyboards and dense layers of skittering percussion. HÃ¥vik’s somnambulant vocals capture the muzzy feeling of a sleepless night.