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Taiteilijaelämää
''Taiteilijaelämää'' (Finnish for "An Artist's Life") is the third solo album of Ismo Alanko, released in 1995. Alanko later used the same title for his 2006 DVD ''Taiteilijaelämää vuosilta 1989-2006''. Track listing Music and lyrics by Ismo Alanko. # "Oletko koskaan..."—5:24 # "Pelataanko shakkia vai?"—5:08 # "Nuorena syntynyt"—6:12 # "Kamaan ja tavaraan"—3:50 # "Väärään maailmaan"—4:59 # "Don Quiote"—4:54 # "Kun rakkaus on rikki"—5:32 # "Pakko päästä pinnalle"—3:25 # "Taiteilijaelämää"—4:36 # "Suomi ratsastaa jälleen"—4:18 # "Tule mun luojani"—5:28 # "Kurjet"—4:39 Personnel * Ismo Alanko -- vocals, guitar, synthesizer * Jukka Kiviniemi -- bass * Ippe Kätkä -- drums, maracas * Riku Mattila—guitar, slide guitar, bass * Safka -- organ, electric piano, piano * Izmo—synthesizer * Ilkka Alanko -- backing vocals * Ona Kamu—backing vocals * Sakari Kukkonen—drums, tambourine, backing vocals * Tommi Lindell—synthesizer * Pekka Witik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ismo Alanko
Ismo Kullervo Alanko (; born November 12, 1960) is a Finnish musician. He is known as the frontman of several bands, most famously Hassisen Kone, Sielun Veljet and Ismo Alanko Säätiö, as well as a successful solo artist. Alanko is known for his versatility and interest in different musical styles. During his career he has recorded punk rock, alternative rock, progressive rock, electronic music, schlager, dance music, children's music and film scores. He has achieved eight platinum records, 16 gold records and four Emma awards.Tero Valkonen oPomus – Populaarimusiikin museo– Retrieved on April 17, 2008 Also a recognized lyricist, Alanko won the Juha Vainio Writer's Award (Juha Vainio -sanoittajapalkinto) in 2003 for his song texts. In a ''City'' magazine article in 1999, 43 Finnish journalists picked the top 99 Finnish rock artists. Ismo Alanko placed 20th, with his former bands Hassisen Kone and Sielun Veljet placing 12th and 4th, respectively. Alanko comes from a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irti (Ismo Alanko Album)
''Irti'' ( Finnish for "Off" or "Loose") is the fourth solo album of Ismo Alanko, released in 1996. According to Alanko, he and his band gave themselves two weeks time to compose and record the album from scratch. The result is an improvisation-based, more freely-played album than the preceding ''Taiteilijaelämää''. Track listing Music and lyrics by Ismo Alanko. # "Piste"—5:04 # "Kriisistä kriisiin"—5:28 # "Elämä on hauras"—5:18 # "Häpeä ja kateus"—2:57 # "Aika kuolla"—6:33 # "Mitä se mulle kuuluu mitä mä teen"—5:12 # "Rakkauden tila"—3:47 # "Rokin kreivi"—3:19 # "Miespaholainen"—3:50 # "Lokki"—3:57 # "Lasten laulu"—3:50 Personnel * Ismo Alanko -- vocals, guitar, cello * Jouko Hohko -- bass, vocals * Ismo "Ippe" Kätkä -- drums, percussion * Riku Mattila—guitar * Teho Majamäki -- marimba, vibraphone, keyboards, percussion * Ismo "Izmo" Heikkilä -- synthesizer A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jäätyneitä Lauluja
''Jäätyneitä lauluja'' ( Finnish for "Frozen Songs")is the second solo album by Ismo Alanko, released in 1993. The album has electronic music influence, making heavy use of drum loops and modern studio technology. ''Jäätyneitä lauluja'' is the first Ismo Alanko album that has Alanko's lyrics printed on the album sleeve. Alanko has said that the lyrics were printed on the demand of cover artist Stefan Lindfors. Track listing All tracks by Ismo Alanko, except where noted. # "Pornografiaa"—5:47 # "Laboratorion lapset" (Alanko, Mitro) -- 4:58 # "Kuolemalla on monet kasvot" (Alanko, Izmo) -- 5:22 # "Extaasiin" (Alanko, Izmo, Mitro, Riku Mattila) -- 4:42 # "Demokratiaa (mutta vain tietyillä ehdoilla)" (Alanko, Mitro) -- 5:45 # "Rakkautta ja hölynpölyä"—3:57 # "Kolme pientä sanaa"—3:54 # "Autolounas huoltamon tapaan" (Alanko, Mattila) -- 4:52 # "Miljonäärien yö"—5:02 Personnel * Ismo Alanko -- vocals, guitar, sequencer * Ilkka Alanko -- backing vocals * Veeti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slide Guitar
Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. It involves playing a guitar while holding a hard object (a slide) against the strings, creating the opportunity for glissando effects and deep vibratos that reflect characteristics of the human singing voice. It typically involves playing the guitar in the traditional position (flat against the body) with the use of a slide fitted on one of the guitarist's fingers. The slide may be a metal or glass tube, such as the neck of a bottle. The term bottleneck was historically used to describe this type of playing. The strings are typically plucked (not strummed) while the slide is moved over the strings to change the pitch. The guitar may also be placed on the player's lap and played with a hand-held bar (lap steel guitar). Creating music with a slide of some type has been traced back to African stringed instruments and also to the origin of the steel guitar in Hawaii. Near the beginning of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violin
The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular use. The violin typically has four strings (music), strings (some can have five-string violin, five), usually tuned in perfect fifths with notes G3, D4, A4, E5, and is most commonly played by drawing a bow (music), bow across its strings. It can also be played by plucking the strings with the fingers (pizzicato) and, in specialized cases, by striking the strings with the wooden side of the bow (col legno). Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres. They are most prominent in the Western classical music, Western classical tradition, both in ensembles (from chamber music to orchestras) and as solo instruments. Violins are also important in many varieties of folk music, including country music, bluegrass music, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viola
The viola ( , also , ) is a string instrument that is bow (music), bowed, plucked, or played with varying techniques. Slightly larger than a violin, it has a lower and deeper sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of the violin family, between the violin (which is tuned a perfect fifth above) and the cello (which is tuned an octave below). The strings from low to high are typically tuned to scientific pitch notation, C3, G3, D4, and A4. In the past, the viola varied in size and style, as did its names. The word viola originates from the Italian language. The Italians often used the term viola da braccio meaning literally: 'of the arm'. "Brazzo" was another Italian word for the viola, which the Germans adopted as ''Bratsche''. The French had their own names: ''cinquiesme'' was a small viola, ''haute contre'' was a large viola, and ''taile'' was a tenor. Today, the French use the term ''alto'', a reference to its range. The viola was popular in the heyd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tambourine
The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head. Tambourines are often used with regular percussion sets. They can be mounted, for example on a stand as part of a drum kit (and played with drum sticks), or they can be held in the hand and played by tapping or hitting the instrument. Tambourines come in many shapes with the most common being circular. It is found in many forms of music: Turkish folk music, Greek folk music, Italian folk music, French folk music, classical music, Persian music, samba, gospel music, pop music, country music, and rock music. History The origin of the tambourine is unknown, but it appears in historical writings as early as 1700 BC and was used by ancient musicians in West Africa, the Middle East, Greece and India. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Backing Vocalist
A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are used in a broad range of popular music, traditional music, and world music styles. Solo artists may employ professional backing vocalists in studio recording sessions as well as during concerts. In many rock and metal bands (e.g., the power trio), the musicians doing backing vocals also play instruments, such as guitar, electric bass, drums or keyboards. In Latin or Afro-Cuban groups, backing singers may play percussion instruments or shakers while singing. In some pop and hip hop groups and in musical theater, they may be required to perform dance routines while singing through headset microphones. Styles of background vocals vary according to the type of song and genre of music. In pop and country songs, backing vocalists may sing ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilkka Alanko
Ilkka Tapani Alanko (born 21 November 1969) is a Finland, Finnish musician. He is a lead vocalist, co-founder, songwriter, and guitarist for the Finnish rock band Neljä Ruusua. Alanko's debut solo album ''Elektra (Ilkka Alanko album), Elektra'' was released in 2009, and it peaked at number seven on the Finnish Albums Chart. Alanko is also a founder of the eponymous ensemble Ilkka Alanko Orchestra. In 2010, the orchestra released its debut album ''Ruusuja'', which also spawned a television documentary ''Ilkka Alanko Orchestra – Poplaulajan työpäivä''. In 2010, Alanko won the talent show ''Kuorosota'', the Finnish version of ''Clash of the Choirs'', with his choir. Personal life Alanko's older siblings Ismo Alanko, Ismo, Petri Alanko, Petri, and Satu are also musicians. Alanko is married to his long-time partner Tessa. They have two children, born in 2005 and 2008. Discography Neljä Ruusua Neljä baritonia * "Pop-musiikkia" (1997) Solo career Albums * ''Elek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piano
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys (small levers) that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings. It was invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700. Description The word "piano" is a shortened form of ''pianoforte'', the Italian term for the early 1700s versions of the instrument, which in turn derives from ''clavicembalo col piano e forte'' (key cimbalom with quiet and loud)Pollens (1995, 238) and ''fortepiano''. The Italian musical terms ''piano'' and ''forte'' indicate "soft" and "loud" respectively, in this context referring to the variations in volume (i.e., loudness) produced in response to a pianist's touch or pressure on the keys: the grea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electric Piano
An electric piano is a musical instrument which produces sounds when a performer presses the keys of a piano-style musical keyboard. Pressing keys causes mechanical hammers to strike metal strings, metal reeds or wire tines, leading to vibrations which are converted into electrical signals by magnetic pickups, which are then connected to an instrument amplifier and loudspeaker to make a sound loud enough for the performer and audience to hear. Unlike a synthesizer, the electric piano is not an electronic instrument. Instead, it is an electro-mechanical instrument. Some early electric pianos used lengths of wire to produce the tone, like a traditional piano. Smaller electric pianos used short slivers of steel to produce the tone (a lamellophone with a keyboard & pickups). The earliest electric pianos were invented in the late 1920s; the 1929 ''Neo- Bechstein'' electric grand piano was among the first. Probably the earliest stringless model was Lloyd Loar's Vivi-Tone Clavier. A few ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organ (music)
Carol Williams performing at the United States Military Academy West Point Cadet Chapel.">West_Point_Cadet_Chapel.html" ;"title="United States Military Academy West Point Cadet Chapel">United States Military Academy West Point Cadet Chapel. In music, the organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more Pipe organ, pipe divisions or other means for producing tones, each played from its own Manual (music), manual, with the hands, or pedalboard, with the feet. Overview Overview includes: * Pipe organs, which use air moving through pipes to produce sounds. Since the 16th century, pipe organs have used various materials for pipes, which can vary widely in timbre and volume. Increasingly hybrid organs are appearing in which pipes are augmented with electric additions. Great economies of space and cost are possible especially when the lowest (and largest) of the pipes can be replaced; * Non-piped organs, which include: ** pump organs, also known as reed organs or harmoniums, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
