Artist's albums
Djupet
2022 · album
Gråura
2022 · single
Rica
2021 · album
Bayou
2021 · album
Duryea
2021 · single
Varsha
2021 · single
Silence Trio 3
2020 · album
And Then Comes The Night
2019 · album
Albatross
2019 · single
Lucus
2018 · album
Time Is A Blind Guide
2015 · album
Mercurial Balm
2012 · album
Voxpheria
2012 · album
Quiet Inlet
2010 · album
Pohlitz
2006 · album
Parish
2005 · album
Humcrush
2004 · album
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Biography
Norwegian Thomas Strønen is a prolific drummer, composer, arranger, improviser, producer, and bandleader. He has participated in or self-created some 70 albums on his own and in cooperation with a wide variety of talent, including the bands Food (with Iain Ballamy, Arve Henriksen, Mats Eilertsen, and Fennesz), Humcrush (with Ståle Storløkken), Parish (with Bobo Stenson), his own Time Is a Blind Guide, Eilertsen's trio with Harmen Fraanje, and the Maria Kannegaard Trio. He has also played on and/or composed for recordings by Eivind Aarset, Nils Petter Molvaer, John Taylor, Tore Brunborg, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Sidsel Endresen, Bugge Wesseltoft, Tomasz Stańko, and Stian Carstensen. Strønen graduated from the Music Conservatory of Trondheim, Norway in 1999 after studying jazz and composition for six years. Since his student days he has been involved with improvised music in many different contexts. He is an interactive musician who enjoys creating different musical forms to generate unexpected results. Strønen is a melodic, almost circular drummer who plays both acoustic and electronic music. He has record deals with Norway's Rune Grammofon and ECM. His most celebrated recordings are Humcrush (2004), Parish (2006), six Food albums divided between the two labels from 2002-2015, and two Time Is a Blind Guide albums, including 2018's Lucus. Also noteworthy are his three albums with Mats Eilertsen's trio, particularly 2019's And Then Comes the Night. ~ Thom Jurek, Rovi