Known as Einar Stray until August 2014. 'Politricks' is the first album under the new name, Einar Stray Orchestra. Einar Stray Orchestra are, despite their young age, one of Norway's most experienced, playful and exciting acts. With over 150 concerts abroad in recent years Einar, Åsa, Simen, Julie, and Lars are well-known for their captivating live shows, filling concert halls and clubs all over Europe. Einar Stray Orchestra’s upcoming sophomore album «Politricks» (Sept. 2014, Riot Factory/Sinnbus) is an album full of sunkissed, sophisticated indie and orchestral post rock with dark and melancholic undertones. The album tells stories of how the innocence of youth crash lands as one gets older, wiser, and perhaps more disillusioned. Musically, Einar Stray Orchestra has evolved from their critically lauded debut album «Chiaroscuro;» «Politricks» shows the band moving closer towards melodic indie pop without losing the distinct character that made 2011's «Chiaroscuro» a favorite among fans and critics at home and abroad. Biography: Inspired by Bright Eyes, Sufjan Stevens and Godspeed You! Black Emperor the (now) 22 year old started out in 2006, recording songs in his bedroom in Sandvika, Norway. As an experimental singer/song-writer he brought musician friends with him on stage, and together they produced both delicate and grandiose sounds with strings, blows and percussion. After meeting fellow norwegian artist Moddi in 2008, they quickly joined forces and released their debut EPs together, as a split-vinyl. “Favors & Fields EP/Rubato EP” resulted in their first tour through Norway, including big festivals like Slottsfjell, By:larm and Øya. When the debut album “Chiaroscuro” finally saw the light in 2011, it received warm critics home and abroad. It was released in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Japan and Norway. With a range from noisy post-rock ballads to stripped down a-capella songs the band toured all of 2012, and gave also birth to “For The Country EP”. They ended the year opening up for múm and Under Byen in Russia. Einar Stray Orchestra: Simen Aasen, Åsa Ree, Einar Stray, Julie Ofeila Østrem Ossum, Lars Gärtner Fremmerlid

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Kim Janssen ('Yaen-sen') is a Dutch singer/songwriter. He is a member of Dutch acoustic pop group, The Black Atlantic, but also releases music under his own name. His début solo album, The Truth Is, I Am Always Responsible (2009) was released on Volkoren records; his sophomore effort, Ancient Crime (2012) and The Lonely Mountains on Snowstar Records. Janssen grew up following his folks around various cities all over Asia. From little villages below the Himalayas, where he took long trips through the snow, to Bangkok, where the lights from skyscrapers and long lines of traffic would make the city glow long after young Kim had fallen fast asleep. Sometimes he stayed up at night drinking coffee and playing his guitar behind his desk, humming along softly so as not to wake anybody up. He found he could draw from his memories and make up stories, even visit all the places he missed and the friends he had left behind. It gave some comfort even if it was a little tarnished, because you can't shake a wistfulness for the old days. He returned home to Holland where he borrowed a four track and a mic from an acquaintance and recorded his songs, putting them on a cd and hiding it under his bed. It made its way however into the hands of a manager in New York by the name of Lance Labreche and before Kim knew it he was covering up against a harsh winter in New York City. In the spring he took a train up into Massachusetts to a small town tucked away in the Berkshire hills. He spent ten days in an old, abandoned train station where producer Robby Baier had built a studio and kept most of the many instruments he had collected over the years. Kim sang and played his guitar parts and also found an old acoustic piano, sleigh bells, a fender rhodes, a howler, some thunder and a little toy piano. Robby invited his friends to come over and play drums, upright bass, pedal steel string guitar and trumpet. Kim had also been fortunate enough to cross paths with Marla Hansen who he had been listening to on Sufjan Steven's “Songs for Christmas” all winter, and managed to convince her to sing and play viola one afternoon in her apartment in Brooklyn between tours with My Brightest Diamond and The National. Official website

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