Live Foyn Friis

The Danish-Norwegian Foyn Trio is jazz with hints of indie and electronica elements delivered with loop pedals and vision. It is pop with an improvisational edge, a playful voice at the center of the soundscape and vocal harmonies in layers. They were nominated at lasts year’s DMA and same year the singer Live Foyn Friis received the award for Young Jazz Composer of the Year and was called a rising star.

Genre: Indiejazz, pop, electronic

Inspired by: Hanne Hukkelberg, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Björk, Tys Tys, Ane Brun, Live Maria Roggen

Started: 2009

Latest album: Joy Visible (2013)

Web: www.facebook.com/FoynTrio

Alternative Web: livefoynfriis.com/

Foyn Trio!

”One of the hottest names on the current Danish jazz scene with a recent Danish Music Award nomination and the title as Young Jazz Composer of the Year 2012." – Kenneth Kristensen, Aarhus Musik Festival

In Norway they’ve called it a new way of playing jazz. In Denmark they call it alternative pop or Indie-Jazz. This band certainly offers something unique and has serious plans to break through in Scandinavia and Europe.

The Danish-Norwegian Foyn Trio plays jazz with hints of indie and electronica elements delivered with loop pedals. It is pop with an improvisational edge, a playful voice at the center of the soundscape and vocal harmonies in layers. Live Foyn Friis’ compositions are communicated in an innovative way. In 2011 the band released their debut album Joy Visible in Norway, and it has been internationally critically acclaimed, with dice 5/6 and 8 out of 10 stars, nominated for Danish Music Awards 2012 for Best Danish Vocal Jazz album, and they were recently on release tour in Germany where they played totally sold-out shows. In 2011 they released the single Make Me Smile on a compilation with artists such as Kaizers Orchestra and Datarock. In 2012 they released the single Dementor followed by a big tour of Norway which ended at The DR Concert House in Copenhagen where Live Foyn Friis received the award for Young Jazz Composer of the Year and was called a rising star!
The band is now working on their second album, to be released in the summer of 2013, recorded in Aarhus with producer Jonas Tranberg. They are also in the process of preparing their third album, a live album with string quartet, to be recorded at The Music House in Aarhus during May 2013, with arrangements written by Live Foyn Friis and Kasper Bai.

The band has a fast-growing fan group and they have been listed on Norwegian radio, and played in Denmark, Sweden, Germany and USA. They have received praising reviews in their home countries as well as abroad. Perhaps Jette Lykke was not wrong when she wrote:

“An expression so strong and so musically that it was clear to all, that here is a female soloist with the world at her feet!” - Stardust - Wall of Fame - Jette Lykke

“An album that hardly can be classified as anything but a masterpiece!” - Dice cast 5/6 in Utropia

"SUPER BEAUTIFUL, FREE AND PLAYFUL VOCALS WHICH YOU CANNOT GET ENOUGH OF. PLUS ONE WILD ENSEMBLE IN WORLD CLASS! "- Lise Westzynthius, Local Heros.

"Irresistible! Live Foyn Friis is a great musician. As a jazz singer, she is simply phenomenal. In addition, her irresistible presence in each line of the text and her enormous charisma on stage."- By Bernhard Hienerwadel, Altaposten

“With loop-effects, beautiful vocals, guitar and bass, Foyn Trio takes the audience by storm!” - Text: Jonas Ørnes Andersen, Utropia

“DENMARK’S NEW JAZZ STAR” - DPA & Danish Broadcasting Corporation at the award of Live Foyn Friis as The Years Young Jazz Composer.


”If you can fall in love with a vocal, I think I have fallen in love with Live Foyn Friis from Foyn Trio!’s voice. - Mari Garås Monsson, NRK P3, Recomended by URØRT!