![]() ![]() Robin Lynch is a recognized musician, songwriter and producer with a number of hit songs under his belt, including artists such as Pink, Jessie J and Cher. She has released three critically acclaimed solo albums on a German label and toured tweleve countries in the last ten years. They call their music Electrojoik, which is electronic music with heavy beats blended together with the traditional Sami singing known as joik.Įlin Kåven from Karasjok is an established artist in her genre Arctic Folk Pop, where she sings joik in Sami. Since then they have worked on a project where the main focus has been to go back to the roots, our connection with mother earth and the innermost natural part of our selves. In 2015, the Sami artist Elin Kåven and songwriter/producer Robin Lynch discovered their common interest for nature, primal life and a certain nordic expression. And the same with our nature, it has taken alot from us and because of us, but it still remains. LIke many other indigenous people have too. The Sami people Endure, even through strong colonisation. We chose the name Endure on our ablum because many of our songs is about mother nature and the Sami culture. We are very happy that we are able to bring forth these topics in our music, they say. When we realised that this is something the two of us have in common then it fell naturally to write song about that. ![]() “The main inspiration has without doubt been mother nature and us humans relation to it. On this album the lyrics are both in English and in Sami languange, and also joiking - which is the Sami way of singing is also a bit part of the sound. The Sami people are the indigenous people of northern Europe. The topic on this album is about being in touch with nature, environmental conservation and is inspired by the worldview of indigenous people. The last two years they have worked on their debut album which will be released in february 2020. They first appeared on Norwegian Eurovision in 2017 with the song “First step in faith/oadjebasvuhtii”, and they ended on third place. Elin & The woods is a collaboration between Sami artist Elin Kåven from Karasjok, Sápmi, Northern Norway and produser/songwriter Robin Lynch, who grew up in Helgeland, Norway, with a father fra USA. ![]()
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