We have built us a great location for recording and the preliminary material done there shows real potential. The effort was to make a longer term base for our creative work. Basic schema for the coming album is being unfolded and we have some ten new songs hatching up. Currently we are laying down basic tracks for the songs.
Some new working titles for the songs are:
Kesävihanta
Saattue
Veden elein
Ulapoi
Veresi säe
Sydämes on tiel
Finnish Femma nomination
We are happy to announce that Tenhi is nominated for a Finnish Femma award in “folk” category. The Femma music awards is an alternative event for more commercial and mainstream Emma awards. The event is held tomorrow in Club Virgin Oil Helsinki.
“Saivo” Artbook CD+DVD: Hardcover artbook, limited to 1.000 copies, in broadsheet format (size 28×28 cm), 60 pages + bonus DVD incl. “Saivo” in extremly high audio quality (96 khz/ 24bit). Prophecy online shop price: 29.99 Euro incl. worldwide shipping.
In tandem with “Saivo”, November 25 will also see the release of an opulent wooden box including Tenhi’s collected works on vinyl. The 33x33x7 cm sized box is limited to 500 copies only. It is made of heavy birch wood and the top comes ornated with a branded Tenhi logo and “The Collected works”. Apart from all Tenhi releases in their vinyl version (see below) the box also features a 160(!)-page and approx. 21×15 cm sized book including selected full-color and black/white graphics of all Tenhi album artworks as well as all lyrics and liner notes. Also included are posters of all Tenhi cover artworks and a numbered and handsigned authentication certificate.
Included vinyl:
- Kauan (LP)
- Väre (LP)
- Maaäet (2LP)
- Airut:Aamujen (LP)
- Folk Aesthetic 1996-2006 (3LP)
- Saivo (2LP)
Sorry for the sparse updates about ‘Saivo’. We hoped to get the album out this summer and didn’t want to disappoint you before all hope was gone. Despite the hopefully final delays, the album is well underway and the final parts are being recorded within couple of weeks, namely choirs and cello parts. We plan to finish our works on the album by the end of August eventually. ‘Saivo’ has taken its time and we didn’t want to rush it. Almost every of the songs has gone through a huge variety of alternative arrangements until we felt that we had achieved best result.
Another excellent news is that Prophecy Prophecy productions will rerelease all our previous full-length albums: ‘Kauan’, ‘Väre’, ‘Airut:aamujen’ and ‘Maaäet’ with special and significantly enhanced booklets and artwork. Stay tuned for more information about these re-issues!
Thanks for everyone who showed up. It was a real pleasure to play for you. Unfortunately the bar closed rather early so there wasn’t any time to hang around after the show. We are surely keen on playing soon again in Helsinki but for now we concentrate on the new album.
Also special thanks for the amazing shows goes for Matt Howden of Sieben and Jochen and Tom of Dornenreich.
The hoodies and shirts are currently sold out from us but one can order them from Prophecy Productions online shop GRAU.
Nyt on mahdollisuus pukeutua asiallisesti tulevalle keikalle. Erä Maaäet ja Folk Aesthetic t-paitoja (15€ + posti) ja huppareita (30€ + posti) saatavana meikäläiseltä.
Kiinnostuneet voivat kysellä lisää tyko.saarikko(miuku)utustudio.com
Night of Folk Aesthetic
We are really happy to announce thrilling news for all who have waited for our live performance here in Finland. We will play our first show in Helsinki at club Gloria 11.10.2008. Moreover we are extremely proud to bring DORNENREICH and SIEBEN first time to Finland to play with us at ‘Night of Folk Aesthetic’. We are also looking for fourth band as opening act so there is more to it still. TENHI and DORNENREICH will play special acoustic based shows so this is something surely not to be missed. More detailed news to follow.
New album SAIVO
We are finished upgrading our studio and we will continue the recording after celebrating the midsummer’s eve.
Wall-flags
I am sorry to announce that the wall-flags were sold out after couple of days after the news was released. I will however make second edition of them as so many fans have been asking for them. These will not be sold on pre-sale so please don’t ask for them before I announce that they are ready after couple of months.
The new songs for the coming album ‘Saivo’ are evolving nicely. We however stand now in a rather unorthodox situation as we never have had so much new material waiting to be recorded.
Here are some working titles for the songs.
-noiad
-rinta maan
-kuolleet lehdet
-vapaus saimaa
-kuunteluyöt
-uloin
-horrospuhuja
-pojan kiiski
-kuvavuori
-lintusalo
-laulu kuolevalla
-luut
-pohjan
-maa ja veri
-paluu joelle
-polku rantaan
-risukko
-pienet purot
Ilkka Salminen is no longer in Tenhi
Ilkka Salminen has now officially left the band. We decided to announce this as there has been some speculation around the matter.
This isn’t a dramatic change in the band at all but rather awaited decision. His contribution has decreased along the years and his personal interests lie elsewhere, while for us the band has become even more crucial part of our lives.
Despite this he will still be around as a friend for sure…
So thanks for the past years –rock on!
Here by Ilkka’s own words:
Dear fans,
I have now officially left Tenhi.
This is my own decision and I want you to know that it happens in the best spirit between all of us. It might not be a surprise for you, as my contribution in Tenhi has decreased ever since we released Maaäet. For the time being I haven’t got the possibility to devote myself to Tenhi anymore with the same intensity as Tyko and Ilmari.
I’m extremely proud and happy for everything we achieved in Tenhi and it all means an awful lot to me. I feel privileged that for the past decade I was given the possibility to create music with such talents as Tyko and Ilmari. I think Tenhi is doing very well in their care, and I encourage them to carry on the Tenhi saga for a long time.
On my behalf I’d like to thank all of you Tenhi fans for the fantastic support you’ve given throughout the years. I wish you all the best, keep Tenhi flame burning!
Yours,
Ilkka Salminen
Wall-flags etc.
We have made limited edition of wall-flags from three ‘Folk Aesthetic’ graphics (10 copies from each, with signatures). We will put them on Utustudio online shop for sale as well as TENHI shirts/sweatshirts later this spring.
All the best for the coming year on behalf of Tenhi.
Here is one video from our small tour in Germany. It is a live acoustic guitar version of ‘luopumisen laulu’ from airut:aamujen. Thanks Hilmar for shooting it.
We also did new lay-out for out site including the ‘folk aesthetic’ graphics. Hope you will like it. More news about the new album entitled ‘Saivo’ and new utustudio merchandize (wall-flags etc.) in the first weeks in 2008.
So the small tour is over. Thanks for everyone who showed up for the shows. We were extremely happy to see so much fans and people interested in our music. We also would like to thank Neun Welten for taking good care of us and being great band to tour with.
Only one conclusion can be made after these shows and the feedback we got… we certainly will do loads of more shows in the future. We hadn’t tried this acoustic line-up before but it really worked great.
We will upload some photos of the events soon. Fans are free to send us some photos so we can share the atmosphere of the shows to others as well. Here are some pre-taste of the Zwischenwelten festival shooted by Senad Palic.
Good news for anyone who has been craving for rare and unreleased material from us.
We just finished mastering the music and completing the cover artwork of the 10th year celebration compilation album called Tenhi ‘Folk Aesthetic 1996-2006’. It includes over three hours of rare and unreleased material from the years 1996-2006. The release date is not sure yet but it will be released during this summer/autumn. The idea is to make a “book-like“ format with some info about each song, lyrics and translations and more. I also drew the artwork specially for it. More news posted soon about the release date.
The final track listing is:
CD 1
Kertomuksia (demo 1997)
näkin laulu
havuisissa saleissa
tenhi
Hallavedet (mcd 1998)
hallavedet
hiljaiseksi lampi jää
kausienranta (unreleased) suortuva (alternative version) etäisyyksien taa (from promo 1997) linnuit (unreleased) tuulenkaato (alternative version) sydänvalkea (unreleased) kuoppa (demo version) korvenraivaajat (jäljen demo version) kielo (bonus song from Kauan album 1999) niin auer hiljaa vie (bonus song from Kauan album 1999)
CD 3
Unreleased album entity called ‘Kaski’. (Swidden).
häie
luo varjo
koiranlainen peura
suruiksi soi
sarahdus
tuuli varista
laule
vasen
neidiie
Tenhi etsii jousisoittajaa (viulisti, alttoviulisti tai sellisti) täydentämään live-kokoonpanoa ja mahdollisesti myös soittamaan levyille. Suunnitelmissa on keikkoja loppuvuodesta Euroopassa ja Suomessa. Nykyinen viulistimme ei pääse mukaan keikoille, joten etsimme korvaavaa esiintyjää.
Eli hyvän asenteen ja soittotaidon omaavat jousisoittajat voivat lähettää vapaamuotoisen tarinansa sähköpostitse sekä demon soitostaan yhteydenottoa varten. Tekninen suoritus ei ole tärkeintä vaan tulkinta ja hyvä tuntuma soittimeen.
Marja’s fifth studio album Polku (‘path’) will be released in 15. February 2007. This time the arrangements and production are made by Ilmari Issakainen and Tyko Saarikko, two members of the Finnish neofolk band Tenhi.
Marja Mattlar is as uncompromising in concert as she is in studio, preferring to perform solo with classical guitar in small rooms with no amplification. She has performed in this way in many small country villages throughout Finland and abroad, making full use of the intimate contact with the audiences. When the situation is right, Marja will also perform in larger spaces with amplification and a few backing musicians.
Sorry for the sparse updates about ‘Saivo’. We hoped to get the album out this summer and didn’t want to disappoint you before all hope was gone. Despite the hopefully final delays, the album is well underway and the final parts are being recorded within couple of weeks, namely choirs and cello parts. We plan to finish our works on the album by the end of August eventually. ‘Saivo’ has taken its time and we didn’t want to rush it. Almost every of the songs has gone through a huge variety of alternative arrangements until we felt that we had achieved best result.
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