A Night Under the Dam is Green Carnation

Green Carnation

Green Carnation is a band from Kristiansand, Norway formed in 1990 that has created songs from both the progressive rock and progressive metal genres. Some also describe their music as art rock...

's second live DVD

DVD

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, released under the Sublife Productions label on February 1, 2007. This live recording was made several kilometers into the Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 mountains, under a thirty-meter-tall dam

Dam

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 built in 1939, hence the name.

The band performed its entire The Acoustic Verses album and other material in front of an audience of more than five hundred. Green Carnation was supported by several guests, including the Kristiansand

Kristiansand

-History:As indicated by archeological findings in the city, the Kristiansand area has been settled at least since 400 AD. A royal farm is known to have been situated on Oddernes as early as 800, and the first church was built around 1040...

 String Quartet

String quartet

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, singer Anne Marie Almedal, former keyboardist

Keyboardist

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 Bernt Moen and violin

Violin

The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

ist Leif A. Wiese.

The DVD contains the entire live show, including two bonus songs, a photo gallery containing more than one-hundred-seventy images, a behind-the-scenes video and full 5.1 Surround Sound

Surround sound

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.

Contents

Concert

1. "Child's Play (Part III)" – 4:32
2. "Sweet Leaf" – 4:59
3. "9-29-045 (Part I, II and III)" – 15:50
4. "Alone" – 3:56
5. "Maybe?" – 3:29
6. "High Tide Waves" – 8:21
7. "Transparent Me" – 5:16
8. "Six Ribbons" – 3:52
9. "The Burden Is Mine... Alone" – 7:57
   • Behind-the-scenes documentary video
   • Extensive photo gallery

Band members

• Terje Vik Schei (a.k.a. Tchort) – guitar
  Guitar
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  , lyrics
  Lyrics
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• Stein Roger Sordal – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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  , vocals
  Singing
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  , guitar, lyrics
• Kjetil Nordhus – vocals, lyrics
• Kenneth Silden – piano
  Piano
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  , keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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• Michael Krumins – guitar, theremin
  Theremin
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• Tommy Jackson – drums
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Guest musicians

• Bjørn Harstad – guitar
• Anne Marie Almedal – vocals
• Leif A. Wiese – violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
  
• Kristiansand string quartet
• Bernt Moen – keyboards

External links

• The official Green Carnation website
• Live album info @ Underthedam.com