Real Ones have been a fixture of Bergen’s music scene since 1994, evolving from a traditional folk group into one of Norway’s most distinctive bands. Over three decades they have folded pop, rock, and world music into their sound while touring from Kolkata and Havana to Amsterdam, New York, and Shanghai.

“Nusrat”, the focus track from So Say All of Us released 26 September, takes its name from Pakistani qawwali master Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, whose intensity has long inspired the group. The song lifts a melodic shape from that influence and places it inside a framework of folk-rock drive and rhythmic brightness.

The album was recorded between Los Angeles and the Hardangervidda plateau in Norway: live-in-studio at Electrosound Studios with engineer Jason Hiller, then completed in a mountain cabin. The band describe it as “Hollywood to Hardangervidda”: a blend of TexMex inflections, acoustic folk-rock, and East–West world music textures.

Produced by Matias Téllez (Aurora, girl in red, A-ha), who also worked on the band’s last two records including Love Your Mother (2023), So Say All of Us brings together themes of hope, friendship, and connection. “Nusrat” carries those ideas forward, while pointing back to a singer whose spirit has shaped Real Ones for decades.

The band celebrate the album with a nationwide tour of more than twenty concerts, extending a live history that already counts over 1,000 shows across four continents.

Listen to “Nusrat” and explore So Say All of Us HERE