the name thosquanta has a somewhat vague meaning.

the name is a made-up word. most literally, it would mean 'those values.'



the name serves the purpose of advertising the ideals of the lyrics and music without giving much away. it refers to a strict adherence to an ideal, to a morality, to the hero's code.



but it doesn't say what that code is.

the code is this:



a is a.



an object is what it is. it can be nothing else. a can not simultaneously be not a. there are no coexisting truths. there is only one. any belief to the contrary is eventually self-defeating. beliefs, as such, are irrelevant. belief does not cause existence, existence is. belief and faith, therefore, are, insofar as they are useful, irrational. the irrational is that which believes that a can be not a. a belief system, organized or not, that holds it true that both a and not a can exist simultaneously defines the world in terms of not a. a thing is not this, it is not that, but it never is.

thosquanta reflects the desire to produce a world based on existence, not non-existence. it reflects the knowledge that all things come about by personal endeavor, not wishing, faith, belief, or need. desire may not be an occupation, but it is a motive. desire coupled with ability is the only creative force.

thosquanta is desire and it is ability.

yup!

we play mostly local bars in the minneapolis/st paul area.

mp3's are a great way to check out a band before you actually shell out $13 for the cd, and i use mp3's for that purpose all the time. its too bad that iTunes was too slow to catch on to the commercial possibilities or else all that crap with ASCAP et al might not have happened.

as long as we retain artistic control of the music, you bet we would.

Alone in his dorm room in the late 1990’s, Adam Powell constructed and refined a new version of his high school solo project, Girl Next Door. His efforts and creativity resulted in Thosquanta. For the next few years, Powell went on to write, perform, mix, and record two albums as this new band, a dark industrial sound with a slight synthpop edge. After a brief sojourn into pure synthpop, Adam once again redefined Thosquanta reformed as a dark amalgam of goth, industrial, rock, and country. While at a Faint concert, Adam met Jen Plum, a singer and songwriter he quickly recruited for the new band. He later added ex-Dysrupt bass player Dave Erickson and guitar player/song writer Tom Zempel to give the new project a full, lush, live feel.

well, we've gone through a few albums at this point. we tend to change our sound along with our influence album to album. phoenix was largely influenced by the cure's simple basslines, lovelife by a wide variety of sounds from MIA to kmfdm to portishead, and the new stuff we are working on is a bit more of the simple dance/guitar stuff thats coming out these days. of course, our take on it relies a bit more on 80's roland sounds and nic and dave's metal take on...well...just about everything.

minneapolis/st paul!

drums and synths are done on reason, with heavy use of hardware synthesizers like the nord modular, roland jx3p, alpha juno-1.

adam's guitar rig uses a ibanez iceman run thru a few boss metals (notably the metal zone), a tubeworks amp head and an avatar 4x12 cabinet.

nic's guitar rig uses a schecter 7-string guitar run thru a peavy transtube amp setup.

dave uses a tobias growler bass rig hooked up in his own special way...