The R1 reactor hall is located underground at Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. The cast were wearing the trademark hoodies that sport Alan Walker's artist logo composed of his stylized initials. The music video to "Restrung" features Walker, Iselin Solheim and an 11-person string ensemble performing in the reactor hall of the dismantled R1, Sweden's first nuclear reactor. Walker wrote in a note to The FADER, that he had decided on an alternative version of "Faded", so as "to highlight other aspects of the song to present it to another audience who may like Iselin 's voice and the melodies, but can't stand the electronic parts of it". The song is performed with a piano and strings, with all the EDM elements taken out. On 11 February 2016, Alan Walker published an acoustic version of the song called Faded (Restrung). Faded." and the Alan Walker's logo.įaded (Restrung) Cover General information It was started with words "Hello, again." and new Faded playing, then it shown the clips from new music video, including the shot of abandoned building from previous teaser. The last, third teaser, came out November 23rd, 2015. November 18th Alan Walker released the video, called "Alan Walker - teaser #2", now with text, displayng the lyrics of the song, ending with Alan Walker's logo and the shot of guy standing in front of the window in abandoned building. Stay tuned.", video ended with Alan Walker logo and female vocals, saying "Where are you now? Was it all in my fantasy?". In November 11th, 2015 Alan Walker released the video, called "Alan Walker - teaser #1" with text, that reads "Hello, new things are coming. When Gunnar Greeve became Alan Walker's producer, they've decided to do the remake of Fade. The performance was aired live on Norwegian television. Walker debuted a live performance of "Faded" with Iselin Solheim and string support on 27 February 2016 at X Games Oslo 2016. It is currently the 20th most viewed video on YouTube, with over 2.4 billion views, 16 million likes and 442 thousand dislikes as of June 2019 as well as being the 28th most streamed song on Spotify, with over 1 billion streams as of June 2019. The song was highly successful, peaking in the top 10 in most of the countries it charted in, and reached the top spot in more than 10 countries. Incorporating vocals provided by Norwegian recording artist Iselin Solheim, the single was originally set to be released on 25 November 2015, but was delayed to 3 December 2015. Faded is a song by Norwegian record producer and DJ Alan Walker.