Jul 052011

“Hotel Oslo” by Kjetil Bjerkestrand and Magne Furuholmen is the soundtrack album to the TV-movie shown in Scandinavia during January and February 1997. Click the track name to hear a 30 second song sample.

01. Con Sordino (1:06)
02. In The Hands Of Fools (4:33)
03. City View (1:25)
04. A Room For Thought (3:26)
05. Witchi Tai To The Sharp Canopies Of Your Broken Heart (4:08)
06. Corridor (2:07)
07. We’ll Never Speak Again- City View II (6:55)
08. I Remember You (2:20)
09. Half Remembering, Half Trying To Forget (4:34)
10. Shaft Man (2:05)
11. White Walls, A Door And A Window (1:09)
12. The City Breathes A Stinking Rhythm (3:18)
13. Freddies Hymn: Ismael-Sea Of Blood (3:12)
14. The Postcard You Never Sent: Greetings From Hotel Oslo (3:32)


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Excerpted facts from a-ha Diary about Hotel Oslo:

  • 01/12/1997 – The four part TV series “Hotel Oslo”, directed by Karin Julsrud, starts today on NRK in Norway. Each episode lasts for around 50 minutes and features a group of six young people with different ambitions who meet up at Hotel Oslo.
  • 01/13/1997 – The soundtrack album to the TV series “Hotel Oslo” is released in Norway.
  • 04/03/1998 – “Timbersound” is nominated for their work on “Hotel Oslo” at the Norwegian Spellemannprisen at Chateau Neuf in Oslo.
  • 04/24/1998 – At a Norwegian music festival in Bergen, “Timbersound” win the Edvard “Music for Another Art Form” prize for their music for TV series “Hotel Oslo”.
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