Alt-folk duo Nunnery Norheim are screenwriter, award-winning playwright, songwriter, and singer Lizzie Nunnery and Vidar Norheim, a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer originally from Norway. The duo released their new album ‘I Saw the City’ on September 15th), a folk synth ballad weaving stories of cities remembered and imagined.
Filmed by Nick Duckett and edited by Andy Donovan, watch their accompanying music video for Magical Times below on which Lizzie tells us:
Magical Times was written for a play with songs that Vidar and I created for the Liverpool Everyman in 2017. The Sum was about a working-class Liverpool family riding out the storm of austerity. The song is written from the point of view of a shy teenage girl, obsessed with space and science, who sees beauty and possibility in the world but feels so far from it. ‘I saw the sky alight, too late, a million years ago…’ Vidar and I have always loved playing the song at our gigs, and it always got a warm response. There’s maybe something universal in feeling the aching gap between personal potential and the limitations of circumstance. When we came to record the new album, I SAW THE CITY, lyrically, it seemed to fit amongst the other songs. It’s someone looking out of the city at the twinkling sky and imagining other worlds…
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