Oriental Sunshine

Oriental Sunshine was a Norwegian psychedelic acoustic trio from Bergen and Skien in Norway that was active from 1968 through the early 70s consisting of Nina Johansen from Skien (vocal, acoustic guitar), Rune Walle (sitar, vocal) and Satnam Singh (flutes, sarod). Originally a duo of Johansen and Walle, who had met at Manger College at the end of the 60s, they had a mutual interest in British and American folk-inspired rock-music - like the Incredible String Band, Fairport Convention, Jefferson Airplane and Joan Baez - and also the religions of the East. This inspired the music that Oriental Sunshine performed. Singh, an Indian student from New Delhi, was included during the autumn of 1969, and gave the group a certain ethnic credibility. Their one only album "Dedicated To The Bird We Love" was recorded in 1970 with Mikkel Aas as producer. In the studio the trio was strengthend by Helge Grøslie (organ), Sture Janson (bass) and Espen Rud (drums). They split before the album was released.