Andy Stochansky

Born and raised in Toronto, he began tinkering with the family piano at the age of five. Shortly thereafter, to stop him from making music with anything he could get his hand on, his parents bought him a toy drum kit. By the time he was in his 20s, he had become a studio musician for Ani DiFranco. DiFranco asked him to play on her new album and, within months, he became her touring drummer. With DiFranco, Andy played 150 shows a year for seven years, until he felt it was time to start expressing himself beyond the drums.

Andy's newest project, White Elephant Orchestra, is an art-pop project which released a new album, entitled Debut. Highlights included singles being played by NPR World Cafe. KCRW KEXP radio airplay. Written, produced and played by Andy, Debut features Lola Lennox and Martina Sorbara (Dragonette) on back-up vocals and tracks mixed by Grammy award winning mixing engineer Dave Pensado (Michael Jackson, Pink, Peaches).

Andy is also a writer and producer for and with other artists.

His writing highlights have included;

• "Northern Lights" performed by Cider Sky used in Tell Me Your Secrets - Amazon Prime 2021
• "Northern Lights" for the Twilight Breaking Dawn (film/soundtrack) performed by Cider Sky.
• "Pale" single Lola Lennox - produced by Annie Lennox
• "The Best" (feat Dragonette) - first worldwide single for Lenno (Casablanca / Universal)
• "Hyper Love"" single for Ferry Corsten on "Flashover Recordings" – Billboard Dance Top 10
• "Everybody Feeling Something" single, "Your Only Love" – Marlon Roudette (Columbia Records U.S.)
• "Shine" Shannon Noll ( 11 consecutive weeks at Number One on the Australian Airplay Chart – a record that still remains today).
• "Midnight Girl" and "Great Bright Morning" recorded by Casey Abrams (Concord Music Group)
• "Bulletproof Angel" – Goo Goo Dolls from 2013 album called "Magnetic"

• While You Slept (1996)
• Radio Fusebox (1999)
• Five Star Motel (2002)
• Shine E.P. (2004)[2]
• 100 (2005)

• Debut—upcoming release (2020)

• White Elephant Orchestra Website