''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 Improvisation is the activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, using whatever can be found. Improvisation in the performing arts is a very spontaneous performance without specific or scripted preparation. The skills of impr ...

-based, more freely-played album than the preceding ''

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 Is ...

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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 --

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guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...

* Jouko Hohko --

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, vocals * Ismo "Ippe" Kätkä --

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* Riku Mattila—guitar * Teho Majamäki --

marimba The marimba () is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the timbre ...

vibraphone The vibraphone is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a ''vibraphonist,'' ''vibraharpist,' ...

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, percussion * Ismo "Izmo" Heikkilä --

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References

{{Authority control 1996 albums Ismo Alanko albums