Italian artist Lorenzo Senni played the last day of the festival but we could speak with him before that – “I am really looking forward to play at Norbergsfestival, it looks way too good and I’m looking forward to the reaction of the people. I will play in the Kraftverk building, it is less impressive than the Mimer building but is actually quite better sounding, it is more precise, which is good for the stuff that I play, no need fighting with the reverb. I use a synthesiser from the 90’s, the classic one they used to make trance music. I play live and a couple of things are recorded, which I composed lately.” Other interesting live performances included psychedelic hip hop act Sun Raw and British techno act Perc. But there were many other good artists who completed the music programme and visual installations.

Samuel Kerridge (Contort), Norberg Festival, 2015

All in all, once again Norberg Festival achieved to offer a great opportunity to enjoy experiential music in such a unique combination of industrial facilities surrounded by the beautiful Swedish deep nature. In own words of one of the festival’s organization members, Tom Hansen, – “It feels like the decision to further professionalise the structure of the festival is paying off. From my point of view, the whole festival went smoothly and it feels that everybody was happy with this year. It was also fun to see so many new faces at the festival (especially international visitors). And even though it’s more professionalised, Norberg Festival still delivered that unique vibe of creativity, DIY and amazing experiences that have become its trademark. The media team (which Tom is a part of) worked very well and we delivered coverage of the festival according to plan. I just wished I had more time to enjoy all the things that was happening but that’s always the case when you work with something (laughs). I genuinely feel that Norberg Festival is extremely important for the development of experimental and electronic music in Scandinavia in terms of providing a bigger platform for artists and performers.”

Norberg Festival 2015
Date: July 30th – August 1st, 2015
Place: In and around the defunct mine site Mimerlaven
Address: Gamla Banan 6, Norberg 738 33, Sweden
https://norbergfestival.com