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''Miero'' ("Outcast") is
Värttinä Värttinä (, meaning " spindle") is a Finnish folk music band that started as a project by Sari and Mari Kaasinen in 1983 in the village of Rääkkylä, in Karelia, the southeastern region of Finland. Many transformations have taken place in t ...
's 13th album (10th studio album).


Track listing

#"Riena / Anathema" (music: Antto Varilo, lyrics: Maari Kaasinen, Johanna Virtanen) – 3:30 #"Valhe / The Lie" (music: Lassi Logrén, lyrics: Susan Aho) – 4:47 #"Mataleena" (music: Janne Lappalainen, lyrics: Kaasinen, traditional) – 3:54 #"Synti / The Sin" (music: Varilo, lyrics: Kaasinen, trad) – 4:04 #"Maaria" (music: Aho, lyrics: Timo Kiiskinen) – 4:49 #"Miero / The Outcast" (music: Markku Lepistö, lyrics: Kaasinen, Lepistö, Logrén, trad) – 4:46 #"Mierontie / Path of the Outcast" (music: Varilo, lyrics: Kaasinen, Aho) – 2:48 #"Mustat kengät / Black Shoes" (music: Virtanen, lyrics: Kiiskinen) – 3:54 #"Lupaus / The Promise" (music: Lappalainen, lyrics: Kaasinen, trad) – 5:39 #"Lumotar / The Enchantress" (music: Virtanen, Logrén, lyrics: Kaasinen) – 2:23 #"9 lukkoa / 9 Locks" (music: Varilo) – 2:46 #"Eerama" (music: Aho, Kaasinen, Virtanen, lyrics: Kaasinen, Virtanen) – 1:59 #"Vaiten valvoin / I Lay Awake" (music: Virtanen, lyrics: Virtanen) – 4:29


Personnel

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Susan Aho Susan Aho (born 5 March 1974) is a Finnish folk music singer-songwriter and a member of the Värttinä music group. In 2010, she represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 as part of the duo Kuunkuiskaajat. Biography Susan Aho was ...
– vocals * Mari Kaasinen – vocals *
Johanna Virtanen Johanna is a feminine name, a variant form of Joanna that originated in Latin in the Middle Ages, including an -h- by analogy with the Latin masculine name Johannes. The original Greek form ''Iōanna'' lacks a medial /h/ because in Greek /h/ cou ...
– vocals * Janne Lappalainen
bouzouki The bouzouki (, also ; el, μπουζούκι ; alt. pl. ''bouzoukia'', from Greek ), also spelled buzuki or buzuci, is a musical instrument popular in Greece. It is a member of the long-necked lute family, with a round body with a flat top and ...
, soprano saxophone, kaval,
low whistle The low whistle, or concert whistle, is a variation of the traditional tin whistle/pennywhistle, distinguished by its lower pitch and larger size. It is most closely associated with the performances of British and Irish artists such as Tommy Make ...
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Markku Lepistö Markku is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Markku Alén (born 1951), Finnish former rally and race car driver *Markku Aro (born 1950), Finnish singer who performed on Eurovision contest in 1971 * Markku Huhtamo (born 1946), Fi ...
– 2- and 5-row accordions, 10-string
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, Lithuania ...
* Lassi Logrénfiddles,
jouhikko The ''jouhikko'' (Finnish: jou̯hikːo is a traditional, two- or three-stringed bowed lyre, from Finland and Karelia. Its strings are traditionally of horsehair. The playing of this instrument died out in the early 20th century but has been r ...
,
nyckelharpa A nyckelharpa (, "keyed fiddle", or literally "key harp", plural ) is the national musical instrument of Sweden. It is a string instrument or chordophone. Its keys are attached to tangents which, when a key is depressed, serve as frets to chang ...
,
harmonium The pump organ is a type of free-reed organ that generates sound as air flows past a vibrating piece of thin metal in a frame. The piece of metal is called a reed. Specific types of pump organ include the reed organ, harmonium, and melodeon. Th ...
, vocal * Jaska Lukkarinendrums,
percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...
, voices * Hannu Rantanen
double bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass). Similar i ...
* Antto Variloacoustic guitars,
electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gu ...
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guitalele A guitalele (sometimes spelled guitarlele or guilele), also called a ukitar, or kīkū,fodo guitar, saz


References


External links


Värttinä page with lyrics, English translations, sample mp3s and links to reviews
{{Authority control 2006 albums Värttinä albums Real World Records albums