''Pulu'' ( Finnish for "Pigeon") is the 1998 debut 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 ...

. The newly formed band's sound has influences from Finnish

folk music Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has b ...

. An important part of the album's sound is reputed

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ist Kimmo Pohjonen. ''Pulu'' reached number one on the Finnish album charts. In "Rakkaus on ruma sana", Alanko criticizes the Finnish word "rakkaus" ("love") for being ugly. The song title can be translated as "Love Is a Bad Word", "Love Is an Ugly Word", or even "Rakkaus Is an Ugly Word". Alanko later used the same title when he released a book of his song lyrics, ''Rakkaus on ruma sana - valitut laulutekstit'' (2004). "Tuulipuvun tuolla puolen" ("Beyond the

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") is a reference to the Finnish tango

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that begins with "Aavan meren tuolla puolen" ("Beyond the wide ocean"). It was also the name of the concert tour that followed the release of ''Pulu''.

Track listing

All songs by Ismo Alanko.Pulu
on discogs.com - Retrieved on April 14, 2008 # "Värityskirja" – 5:07 # "Päivän uutinen" – 4:24 # "Rakkaus on ruma sana" – 3:48 # "Pisaroi" – 6:30 # "Maalausliike" – 4:04 # "Tango Yössä" – 4:06 # "Lihaa ja verta" – 3:09 # "Vaiennut hiljaisuus" – 6:02 # "Sairaat" – 3:41 # "Pulu" – 4:33 # "Tuulipuvun tuolla puolen" – 4:11

Personnel

* Ismo Alanko –

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

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 ...

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 keyboa ...

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 ...

* Kimmo Pohjonen –

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica inclu ...

, vocals * Teho Majamäki –

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,' ...

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 ...

organ Organ may refer to: Biology * Organ (biology), a part of an organism Musical instruments * Organ (music), a family of keyboard musical instruments characterized by sustained tone ** Electronic organ, an electronic keyboard instrument ** Hammond ...

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. Exc ...

* Jussi Kinnunen –

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, vocals * Marko Timonen –

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, percussion * Kari Kriikku –

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 ...

(on #1 and #11) * Jukka Orma – guitar (on #4 and #6) * Pemo Ojala –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

(on #4) * Sanna Kurki-Suonio – vocals (on #5, #7 and #10)

Notes

{{Authority control 1998 debut albums Ismo Alanko Säätiö albums