Album Notes

"Escape" is the first EP of "The Amazing Insurance Salesmen". The band was started in Beijing (China) in 2009 and has become one of the most important and successful band of the Chinese underground music scene.

The Amazing Insurance Salesmen won the 2010 Global Battle of the Bands in Beijing and China, and represented the Chinese underground music scene in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in February 2011.

The Amazing Insurance Salesmen is a band lead by French man Jean-Sébastien Héry (aka Zhang Si’an), with drummer Maomao from China and bass player Maikel from Holland.

The band plays original experimental music and songs inspired by bands such as Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jimi Hendrix and music genres like Jazz, Blues, Bossa nova, Fusion, Classical music etc…

The band formed in the summer of 2009, when French musician Jean-Sébastien Héry (aka Zhang Si’an) was looking for a way to go back to rock music after ten years of playing folk music, chinese inspired folk songs and Jazz. He asked two of the best musicians in Beijing to join him in a journey to create a new experimental rock sound.

The music of the band is very unique in Beijing. It flows between short melodic punk-rock songs and long instrumental guitar driven progressive rock improvisations.

The band plays in Beijing’s most famous venues such as 2Kolegas, Mao Livehouse, Yugong Yishan, D22 etc…

The band had also played music festivals including the Zebra festival in Chengdu, the Beijing Haidian Park Festival and the Beijing Nanluoguxiang Festival.