”Commuter Anthems” is the second album, and the first for Rune Grammofon, from Eivind Opsvik and Aaron Jennings. Eivind Opsvik is from Oslo, Norway, but has lived in New York since 1998. He started out playing the drums at a very early age, but gradually switched to bass in his teens while also spending time experimenting with a 4 track tape recorder. In New York he now has his own band "Eivind Opsvik Overseas" and is also part of a plethora of cutting-edge New York groups like Kris Davis Quartet, David Binney's Out of Airplanes (with Bill Frisell), Tone Collector, Rocket Engine, UP, Hari Honzu and Ben Gerstein Collective. He recently did a recording with Jacob Sacks on piano, Mat Maneri on viola and Paul Motian on drums.

Aaron Jennings is a guitarist and software enthusiast from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He moved to New York after college, where he began working in a variety of musical projects. Over the course of his career, Aaron has concentrated on free jazz and electronica, but these days he´s mostly considered a musician that works somewhere in the realm of experimental pop music. Aaron's music efforts are currently focused on Opsvik & Jennings and another band that he and Eivind both play in, Hari Honzu, a four piece instrumental band that plays Ornette inspired catchy three minute pop tunes with a punk flair.

As with many of our releases ”Commuter Anthems” is difficult to categorize. Both players come from a jazz background, but that´s only a small part of the picture. Folk and country influences provide the album with a rural, almost relaxed feeling as guitars, double bass, concertina, pump organ, lap steel, banjo, and various recording techniques and software manipulations creates a filmatic musical story being played by a dreamy experimental pop orchestra.