Outlanders

"Outlanders" is Tarja Turunen and Torsten Stenzel. Tarja is a Finnish soprano that has developed her own style into combining successfully classical trained vocals with rock music and crossover. Torsten Stenzel York is a German musician, songwriter, composer and producer for more than 22 years.
Outlanders combines electronic music with Tarja’s soft as well as classical vocals, electric and acoustic guitars. The three elements are a constant in all the songs and are equally important.The project was born in 2010 with the song Outlanders, inspired by lyrics of Paulo Coelho, and since then Tarja and Torsten agreed to continue writing songs and contacting amazing guitar players to fulfil their ideas. They have been working mainly in the island of Antigua where the first seed was planted. The artwork photos, visualizers for the music, recordings and mixing, mostly took place there.
The album went thru 2 computer crashes, with 2 fried motherboards and about 3 dead hard drives. Many of the songs got lost and needed to be re-programmed and re-recorded, even more than once in some cases. It was a long process, but the songs got even strong in the second or third attempt.
Torsten and Tarja didn’t give up, and they are finally ready to show you what they have been doing the last 10 years! It is a friendship project, done with lots of love and care.