The Norway-based artist, composer, keyboardist and singer from Kyoto Japan, SIENNÁ, is back in daylight to display the brandnew album “Essence” next to the 2 earlier releases. Since her debut in 2005, she has gained underground status due to her unique cultural background and original approach to the modern electronica genre.
She takes multiple music styles from freestyle avant electronica, club, nu-jazz, alternative, to Japanese traditional music – and effortlessly re-shapes them into a fusion of moody and flourish soundscapes. Her sound has been compared to the likeness of Underworld, Eat Static, Björk, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Y.M.O.
SIENNÁ's world is a contrast: relaxing but stimulating, oriental but European, traditional but untraditional. “Essence” is an essential expression of her identity related to those contrasts. Electronic sounds have been her tools to tell what she has perceived in her life and the lives of others. SIENNÁ's band members from Toten Norway, Abòn (guitars), Kristian Wentzel (rhodes),