Song Circus had a particularly wonderful experience meeting the people at Funkishuset. In the first issue of Asfalt 2015, journalist Marius Harlem describes his experience of what happened that day:
STREET MAGAZINE ASFALT, Issue 1, 2015:
«A long low tone is heard from the hallway. Then another. The slow multi-voiced song sneaks into the living room, where it is met with quiet conversation. Someone grabs a waffle. Another man opens the newspaper. ‘What are you doing this weekend?’
He tries to take the room back from the music with a bit of everyday chatter in a normal tone. No one shushes him, but the responses are soft-spoken. The voices in the hallway insist on not being reduced to background music. Two new guests arrive. They navigate between the four singers in the hallway and out to the terrace to smoke. When the first part of the song ends, only Jack, Tor, and the staff remain. They clap softly.
Tor says he mostly listens to Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones.
‘And I’ve been to Roskilde, but it wasn’t mostly for the music, if you know what I mean. But this was nice.’
‘I felt completely calm from this,’ says Jack, turning to the ensemble and smiling. ‘Come and sing for me at nine every morning, and I can cut out the Valium.»
