Joensuu 1685 - Light In The Heart Of Our Town

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🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Joensuu 1685 - "Light in the Heart of Our Town" from the 2020 album ÖB on Gems Records.

Formed in 2007 in Helsinki, Finland, Joensuu 1685 — a project of brothers Markus and Mikko Joensuu and non-related bassist Risto Joensuu — have been dormant for over a decade, but a 2018 reunion performance at the Flow Festival ignited the spark for them to complete an unfinished album.

Today's featured track was inspired by "an image of a dying town," Mikko explained. “About a person in front of a gas station right at the edge of town, seeing the town and seeing oneself, what was, what is and what will be. It’s an image of the hope that runs deep in our bones…”

The long-awaited sophomore release, titled ÖB, will be released October 9th via Gems Records.

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0:00.0	Thank you. I think to myself every now and then when I say.
0:16.0	I think to myself every now and then,
0:30.0	we're not supposed. Every now and then rid of sickness in and insanity begin. I've never seen the sight so clear.
0:37.0	I've not heard the sound I hear.
0:41.0	Tonight it must go down.
0:43.0	go down.
0:44.0	There's a light in the heart of our town.
0:50.0	There's a light in the heart of our town.
0:57.0	Sit set for some time.
1:05.0	It took me a while to unwind.
1:10.0	See my mind got stuck in the mob.
1:14.0	It was a failure never like a bar.
1:18.0	I would have led myself on fire
1:22.0	just to make it dark time brighter.
1:26.0	If you so stilling in the air,
1:30.0	we buy more time, we try to make it fair.
1:35.0	It was a dream inside a dream,
1:40.0	a sound inside a sound,
1:42.0	inside a sound
1:48.0	it seems that all we found grew from the dirt beneath the ground
1:51.0	and I hope feel understand when we'll rise all the land.
2:00.0	Tonight it must go now.
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