''Hallanvaara'' ( Finnish for ''Risk of Frost'') is the third studio album of

Ismo Alanko Säätiö Ismo Alanko Säätiö () was a Finland, Finnish rock group led by Ismo Alanko. The band featured an ever-changing lineup of musicians and can be considered an extension of Alanko's solo career. The band's name is Finnish language, Finnish for "I ...

. Ismo Alanko composed the music and asked different people to provide the arrangements for the album. In addition to Säätiö personnel, the album features two string ensembles: Arttu Takalon Jouset (Arttu Takalo's Strings) and Ville Kankaan Jousikvartetti (Ville Kangas' String Quartet). Kimmo Pohjonen, who had already left the band before the recording of ''Hallanvaara'', plays

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

on "Peilikuva".Ismo Alanko Säätiö
on ismoalanko.com -- Retrieved December 18, 2008

Track listing

All compositions by Ismo Alanko except "Töiden jälkeen" by Alanko and Arttu Takalo. All lyrics by Alanko. #"Risteys" _{(arr. Takalo)} -- 4:18 #"Suurenmoinen ruumissaatto" _{(arr. Riku Mattila, Valtteri Tynkkynen)} -- 4:55 #"Maailmanparantaja" _{(arr. Alanko, Samuli Laiho, Marko Timonen)} -- 5:26 #"Nurkkapöytä" nstrumental_{(arr. Laiho)} -- 0:48 #"Kukaan ei tunne mua" _{(arr. Ahti Marja-Aho)} -- 4:29 #"Pieni itsemurha" _{(arr. Alanko)} -- 3:26 #"Paratiisin puu" _{(arr. Tynkkynen, Timonen)} -- 3:54 #"Kadonnut suudelma" _{(arr. Alanko)} -- 4:22 #"Pojanmaa" _{(arr. Alanko, Laiho, Timonen)} -- 4:10 #"Kullankaivajat" _{(arr. Alanko, Ville Kangas, Timonen)} -- 5:07 #"Tulessamakaaja" _{(arr. Alanko, Laiho)}-- 1:14 #"Peilikuva" _{(arr. Alanko, Safka Pekkonen, Timonen)} -- 5:12 #"Töiden jälkeen" nstrumental_{(arr. Takalo)} -- 2:05 #"Hallanvaara" _{(arr. Marja-Aho)} -- 4:07

Personnel

Ismo Alanko Säätiö

*Ismo Alanko -- vocals, piano, cello, guitar, electric piano, whistling *Samuli Laiho—acoustic guitar, backing vocals *Jarno Karjalainen -- bass guitar, double bass *Marko Timonen --

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, percussion

Arttu Takalon Jouset

*Arttu Takalo --

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*Katariina Junnila-Kaikkonen -- violin *Kati Kiraly—violin *Maija Linkola—violin *Eriikka Maalismaa—violin *Reeta Maalismaa—violin *Anna Tanskanen—violin *Inkeri Vänskä—violin *Janne Ahvenainen -- viola *Lotta Poijärvi—viola *Päivi Ahonen—cello *Ville Turunen—cello *Marko Mikkola—double bass

Ville Kankaan Jousikvartetti

*Ville Kangas—violin *Anni Järvelä—violin *Sanna-Mari Helen—viola *Osmo Ikonen—cello

Session musicians

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'' w ...

—backing vocals *Anni Haapaniemi -- oboe *Jukka Hakoköngäs—piano *Juhani Hapuli -- Thai gong,

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*Erja Joukamo-Ampuja -- French horn *Seppo Kantonen—piano, electric piano *Pentti Lahti --

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flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

bass flute The bass flute is a member of the flute family. It is in the key of C, pitched one octave below the concert flute. Despite its name, its playing range makes it the tenor member of the flute family. Because of the length of its tube (approximate ...

, tenor and

alto saxophone The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in E, smaller than the B tenor ...

clarinet The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...

bass clarinet The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B), but it plays notes an octave bel ...

*Ahti Marja-Aho—piano *Riku Mattila—guitar,

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, sitar,

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*Puka Oinonen -- saw *Timo Paasonen --

flugelhorn The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B, though some ...

, trumpet *Safka Pekkonen --

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, electric piano, piano *Kimmo Pohjonen --

*Erik Siikasaari—double bass

References

2002 albums Ismo Alanko Säätiö albums {{2000s-alt-rock-album-stub