''My Kantele'' is an EP /

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by Finnish metal band

Amorphis Amorphis is a Finnish heavy metal band founded by Jan Rechberger, Tomi Koivusaari, and Esa Holopainen in 1990. Initially, the band was a death metal act, but on later albums they evolved into playing other genres, including progressive metal, an ...

, released in 1997. It is not to be confused with the song "My Kantele" from the album ''

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'', which is not on this compilation, although the title is still used as it contains the acoustic version of "My Kantele" and four previously unreleased songs. The song "My Kantele" is a traditional Finnish song from the 1840 collection ''

Kanteletar ''Kanteletar'' is a collection of Finnish folk poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot. It is considered to be a sister collection to the Finnish national epic ''Kalevala''. The poems of ''Kanteletar'' are based on the trochaic tetrameter, generally ...

'', sung by

Loituma Loituma is a Finnish quartet whose members combine the Finnish vocal tradition with the sounds of the kantele. Loituma were selected Ensemble of the Year at the 1997 Kaustinen Folk Music Festival. History Loituma’s initial incarnation was in ...

Track listing

Personnel

Amorphis

Pasi Koskinen Pasi Koskinen (born January 1972) is a Finnish metal vocalist and musician, currently the vocalist and guitarist of the band Datura Nemesis (2013–), but he is perhaps best known as the vocalist of the band Amorphis (1995–2004). Koskinen wa ...

– vocals *

Esa Holopainen Esa Holopainen (born 1 October 1972) is a Finnish musician, currently the main songwriter, occasional lyricist, founding member and lead guitarist of the Finnish metal band Amorphis. He is one out the two longest standing members of the band (t ...

– lead guitar;

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on track 1 *

Tomi Koivusaari Tomi Koivusaari (born 11 April 1973) is the current rhythm guitarist and former vocalist of the Finland, Finnish metal band Amorphis. He started playing at the age of 12, his first band was Violent Solution formed in 1987, with him on guitars and ...

– rhythm guitar *

Olli-Pekka Laine Olli-Pekka Laine is a Finnish musician, currently as a bassist in Finnish metal bands Amorphis (1990-2000, 2017-) and Barren Earth (2008-). He was also formerly in other Finnish metal bands, ''Nuxvomica'' (1990), ''Rytmihäiriö'' (1991-1992), ...

– bass *Kim Rantala – keyboards;

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on track 1 *Pekka Kasari – drums

Additional personnel

*Mamba – additional

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on track 3 *Pete "Pee Wee" Coleman – mixing *Dave Shirk – mastering *William J. Yurkiewicz Jr. – mastering *Adam Peterson – design *Kai "Hiili" Hiilesmaa – engineering *

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– songwriting on "Levitation"

References

{{Authority control Amorphis albums 1997 albums