BIOGRAPHY
Thence was founded in 2003. Other musical projects of the members have contributed to the fact that the first album is only now ready. Music could be described as the slight melting pot. We've been captured elements to our music from rock, prog, jazz, blues, and also metal music. All of this has not been in any way deliberate but has become a full natural development as the music has been increased. Juha Sirkkiä founded the band in 2003. However, the band has been in the drawer until Erno Räsänen joined the band and immediately from that we started making the first album, it finally saw the light of day in 2011.
Thence’s first album, These stones cry from the earth, captures the atmosphere. Album has only one song and the total duration of this package is 57.09. They did not intend originally to do such a package, but still the music began to grow, it felt that this must be done in this way. The album was composed and recorded almost at the same time. Maybe that is the reason that the listener can not be leave unfinished, but it must listen it to the end. Hopefully, you will also do so.
2016 sees the duo return with the long awaited follow up ‘We Are Left With A Song’ which, this time consists of seven tracks instead of one long ‘paragraph’. The content itself has remained, broadly the same: all kinds of emotionally descriptive, diverse and beautiful music.
“Hope. Maybe it is the best adjective to describe this album. It’s a feeling, and it is wished that, after all the difficulties, there is always hope.” says Juha Sirkkiä, of the album’s theme.
What Thence have delivered with ‘We Are Left With A Song’ is no mere album, it is a breathtaking, creative powerhouse of sonic delight that grows to fill any space that it occupies to take on a life of its own. It is a life that you will want to share until your dying breath, above mere superlatives, it is an utter triumph.
"We are the edge of the biggest ride of the history. Is this the year when the cosmic clock finally runs down to zero days to zero hope? Deepest questions of our time are looking answers from the past. Facing alarming complexity. Vanishing species...or something? Thence is something from there. Just to feel the ambience of the surrounded world." - Commented the band
Formed In: 2003
Status: Active
Years Active: 2003-Present
LINE UP
Juha Sirkkiä - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Grand Piano & Harmonica
Erno Räsänen - Drums, Percussions & 12-String Guitar
Country of Origin: Finland
Location: Kuopio
Genre: Progressive/ambient/rock
Booking: thence@thence-ambience.com
Press Contact: Mr. Miika "Mega" Kuusinen (https://www.facebook.com/MetalAsylumPromotions)
Official Website: www.thence-ambience.com
Bandcamp: https://thence.bandcamp.com
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/thence
Myspace: www.myspace.com/thencemusic
We Are Left with a Song (Full-Length Album - 2016)
Released May 27, 2016
