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Rautakantele
''Rautakantele'' is a 1995 album by the Finnish rock group CMX. "Rautakantele" is Finnish and means "The Iron Kantele". Track listing All songs by CMX with lyrics by A. W. Yrjänä. # "Rautakantele" – 4:31 ("Iron Kantele") # "Yöllisiä" – 3:18 ("Nocturnals") # "Palvonnan eleitä" – 3:03 ("Gestures of Worship") # "Talviunia" – 3:29 ("Winterdreams") # "Kirosäkeet" – 4:10 ("Curse Verses") # "Ennustaja" – 3:54 ("Fortune Teller") # "Päivälintu" – 3:48 ("Daybird") # "G" – 3:37 # " Pelasta maailma" – 4:15 ("Save the World") # "Linnunhammas" – 3:18 ("Bird's Tooth") # "Veden ääri" – 3:06 ("Water's Edge") # "Pirunmaitoa" – 6:09 ("Devil's Milk") # "Hiljaisuuteen" – 2:04 ("Into Silence") Personnel * A. W. Yrjänä Aki Ville Yrjänä (born 30 July 1967 in Kemi), better known by the stage name, A. W. Yrjänä (), is a poet and the singer, bassist, and primary songwriter of the Finnish rock band CMX. In addition to his musical work, he has publis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CMX (band)
CMX, originally Cloaca Maxima, is a Finnish rock band. They originally played hardcore punk, but soon expanded to play a wide variety of rock formats, including progressive rock, heavy metal, and mainstream rock 'n' roll. Throughout their career, they have been influenced by progressive rock bands such as Rush, Yes, Tool and King Crimson. The progressive influence is most evident on their albums ''Dinosaurus Stereophonicus'' (2000) and ''Talvikuningas'' (2007). CMX have gradually gained large-scale mainstream following in Finland. They are especially known for the poetic lyrics of A. W. Yrjänä that often contain references to mythology and religion. Finnish rock magazines, particularly ''Rumba'', have named them Best Band of the Year multiple times, and even Best Band of All Time on one occasion. History Early years 1985-1990 CMX was founded on Good Friday 1985 in Tornio, Finland by A. W. Yrjänä (18 at the time) and Pekka Kanniainen. The band's original name, Cloaca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pelasta Maailma
"Pelasta maailma" is the first single from the CMX album ''Rautakantele''. It also appears on the compilation album '' Cloaca Maxima''. The chorus contains a quote from a poem by L. Onerva. "Pelasta maailma" means "Save the World" in Finnish. Track listing #"Pelasta maailma"—4:15 #"Joet ( acoustic live)"—3:52 Cover versions *Antti Tuisku, ''Minun jouluni'' (2005) *Vesa-Matti Loiri, ''Ivalo'' (2006) Personnel *A. W. Yrjänä -- vocals, bass * Janne Halmkrona -- guitar *Timo Rasio—guitar *Pekka Kanniainen -- drums *Mara Salminen -- keyboards, backing vocals *Susanna Eronen—backing vocals *Essi Wuorela—backing vocals *Satu Sopanen -- kantele *Risto Salmi -- soprano saxophone *Kikke Heikkinen—backing vocals *Kaarina Kilpiö -- percussion *Keijo Puumalainen—percussion *Ville Leppänen -- distorted slide guitar See also * CMX discography The discography of CMX starts in 1985 and continues to this day. During this time, the band has released fifteen studio al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aura (CMX Album)
''Aura'' (1994) is an album by the Finnish rock group CMX. The album gained the band its first near-hit single and some commercial airplay with "Ruoste". Although many people consider ''Aura'' to be the band's seminal record, at this point many older fans were already scoffing at the more streamlined, acoustic songs and mellow soundscapes as compared to their earlier hardcore steamrolling. However, ''Aura'' pretty much defines the band's sound up to this day, with a mixture of heavy and light elements and songwriting reminiscent of 1960s and 1970s progressive rock. Track listing Songs written by A. W. Yrjänä, unless where noted. All lyrics by Yrjänä. # "Mikään ei vie sitä pois" – 3:18 ("Nothing Takes it Away") # "Sametinpehmeä" – 2:55 ("Soft as Velvet") # "Elokuun kruunu" – 4:32 ("August's Crown") # "Ruoste" – 4:01 ("Rust") # "Nainen tanssii tangoa" – 4:34 ("Woman Dances the Tango") # "Turkoosi" (Yrjänä, Halmkrona, Rasio, Kanniainen) – 4:20 ("Turquoise" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discopolis
''Discopolis'' is the sixth studio album by the Finnish rock group CMX. With ''Discopolis'', CMX took a different approach on recording with the goal of making the first entirely Pro Tools -based album in Finland. The basic concept was to build the songs from small pieces, emphasizing editing and production over playing and recording. The result was successful in sales, but received some negative critique in reviews. Track listing ''All songs written by CMX with lyrics by A. W. Yrjänä.'' # "Discoinferno" – 3:43 # "Antroposentrifugi" – 3:11 ("Anthropocentrifuge") # "Nimetön" – 3:35 ("Nameless") # "Aamutähti" – 4:31 ("Morning Star") # "Jerusalem" – 4:09 # "Vallat ja väet" – 4:21 ("The Powers and the Crowds") # "Paha" – 2:21 ("Evil") # "Suljettu astia" – 3:34 ("Closed Container") # "Epäonnisten liikemiesten helvetti" – 3:23 ("The Hell of Unlucky Businessmen") # "Arcana" – 5:18 # "Silmien ummistamisesta Nansenin galvanointiin" – 7:29 ("From the Closing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kampin Laulu
Kampin Laulu is a Finnish chamber choir founded in 1990. Competitions * International Anton Bruckner Choir Competition and Festival 2007 (Linz), winner of the chamber choir series * Harald Andersén Chamber Choir Competition 2003 (Helsinki), III prize * Cork International Choral Festival 1997, 1st place Selected premieres *Juhani Komulainen: Keltainen nocturne (2000) * Jaakko Mäntyjärvi: No More Shakespeare Songs? (2000) *Jukka Linkola: Promootiokantaatti (2000) *Juhani Komulainen: Cat Morgan Introduces Himself (1999) Discography * Kivi sydämellä (2005) * Verba sapientes sacra (2000) * Kadonneet lahjat (1999) * Something Rich and Strange (1998) * guest choir on CMX records Rautakantele (1995), Discopolis ''Discopolis'' is the sixth studio album by the Finnish rock group CMX. With ''Discopolis'', CMX took a different approach on recording with the goal of making the first entirely Pro Tools -based album in Finland. The basic concept was to build ... (1996) and Dinosauru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autumn
Autumn, also known as fall in American English and Canadian English, is one of the four temperate seasons on Earth. Outside the tropics, autumn marks the transition from summer to winter, in September ( Northern Hemisphere) or March ( Southern Hemisphere). Autumn is the season when the duration of daylight becomes noticeably shorter and the temperature cools considerably. Day length decreases and night length increases as the season progresses until the Winter Solstice in December (Northern Hemisphere) and June (Southern Hemisphere). One of its main features in temperate climates is the striking change in colour for the leaves of deciduous trees as they prepare to shed. Date definitions Some cultures regard the autumnal equinox as "mid-autumn", while others with a longer temperature lag treat the equinox as the start of autumn. In the English-speaking world of high latitude countries, autumn traditionally began with Lammas Day and ended around Hallowe'en, the approxima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progressive Rock
Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. Initially termed "progressive pop", the style was an outgrowth of psychedelic bands who abandoned standard pop traditions in favour of instrumentation and compositional techniques more frequently associated with jazz, folk, or classical music. Additional elements contributed to its " progressive" label: lyrics were more poetic, technology was harnessed for new sounds, music approached the condition of "art", and the studio, rather than the stage, became the focus of musical activity, which often involved creating music for listening rather than dancing. Progressive rock is based on fusions of styles, approaches and genres, involving a continuous move between formalism and eclecticism. Due to its historical reception, the scope of progressiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south. Finland covers an area of with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city, forming a larger metropolitan area with the neighbouring cities of Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. Finnish, alongside Swedish, are the official languages. Swedish is the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to the boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first inhabited around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period. The Stone Age introduced several differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish Language
Finnish ( endonym: or ) is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedish). In Sweden, both Finnish and Meänkieli (which has significant mutual intelligibility with Finnish) are official minority languages. The Kven language, which like Meänkieli is mutually intelligible with Finnish, is spoken in the Norwegian county Troms og Finnmark by a minority group of Finnish descent. Finnish is typologically agglutinative and uses almost exclusively suffixal affixation. Nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs are inflected depending on their role in the sentence. Sentences are normally formed with subject–verb–object word order, although the extensive use of inflection allows them to be ordered differently. Word order variations are often reserved for differences in information structure. Finnish orth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kantele
A kantele () or kannel () is a traditional Finnish and Karelian plucked string instrument (chordophone) belonging to the south east Baltic box zither family known as the Baltic psaltery along with Estonian kannel, Latvian kokles, Lithuanian kanklės and Russian gusli. Construction Small kantele Modern instruments with 15 or fewer strings are generally more closely modeled on traditional shapes, and form a category of instrument known as small kantele, in contrast to the modern concert kantele. The oldest forms of kantele have five or six horsehair strings and a wooden body carved from one piece; more modern instruments have metal strings and often a body made from several pieces. The traditional kantele has neither bridge nor nut, the strings run directly from the tuning pegs to a metal bar (''varras'') set into wooden brackets (''ponsi''). Though not acoustically efficient, this construction is part of the distinctive sound of the instrument. The most typical and tradi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
