Joensuu1685

Joensuu 1685, a rock trio from Finland, formed in Helsinki 2007 by two brothers Mikko Joensuu, Markus Joensuu and Risto Joensuu. A band who drown their music in overtones, feedback and noise, and paint a soft but sizzling stream of big beauty. Repetitive bass riffs, powerful yet restrained drumming and pastoral organs in the core of their being. In 2010, in the last months of finalizing their second album something strange happened, the band suddenly exploded into pieces and Joensuu’s went on their separate ways. Markus and Risto formed Siinai and Mikko started to work on his own material. In the next eight years, with great critical acclaim, Siinai released five concept albums, two of which were a collaboration with Moonface and Mikko Joensuu released his massive unity of music in a form of a trilogy album called Amen. In 2018 the band reunited in Flow festival Helsinki and decided that it was time to return to the unfinished Joensuu 1685 album abandoned years ago. Their second album is now finished and will be released in 2020.