''Softwood Music Under Slow Pillars'' (or simply ''Softwood Music'') is the seventh album of

Sielun Veljet Sielun Veljet () was a Finnish rock band of the 1980s. They were formed soon after the disbanding of Hassisen Kone by its former frontman Ismo Alanko. Sielun Veljet never achieved the fame or the record sales figures of Hassisen Kone, but they ...

, released in 1989. It is the band's only English language album released as Sielun Veljet, although it was released in Sweden as L'amourder. The band had already released two English language recordings, the ''Ritual'' EP in 1986 and ''

Shit-Hot ''Shit-Hot'' is an album by L'amourder, a pseudonym for Sielun Veljet. It contains re-recorded versions of their songs translated into English. Track listing # Forever hungry (= Aina nälkä) # Luminous force (= Säkenöivä voima). # Love on t ...

'' in 1987, consisting of re-recorded versions of their songs with the lyrics translated to English, but this was the first time that the music was originally written in English.http://pomus.net/001788 - Retrieved on April 11, 2008 Sielun Veljet had already been exploring foreign markets and even toured in Europe and the

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in 1987, but ''Softwood Music'' was only released in Finland and Sweden, and even there it sold poorly. It differs from previous Sielun Veljet albums by being acoustic and containing influences from

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. The album has a generally

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atmosphere. The album's cover art was painted by

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. It depicts a

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healing ritual.

Track listing

Music and lyrics by Sielun Veljet. # "Mushroom Moon"—3:23 # "I Wanna Be a Frog"—2:16 # "Life Is a Cobra"—3:05 # "Woe! The Maiden of My Heart"—2:19 # "Immortal Bliss"—2:51 # "Evil Kübl"—3:38 # "Vicious Waltz"—2:45 # "Hey-Ho, Red Banana!"—1:58 # "The Beast Has Taken Over in My Mind Again"—4:27 # "Old Masterpiece"—2:02 # "

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"—4:25 # "Living in a Twisted World"—3:10

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 ...

, steel-string guitar,

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 ...

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 ...

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are use ...

* Jukka Orma --

nylon-string guitar The classical guitar (also known as the nylon-string guitar or Spanish guitar) is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. An acoustic wooden string instrument with strings made of gut or nylon, it is a precursor o ...

, vocals, backing vocals * Jouko Hohko -- bass balalaika, vocals, backing vocals * Alf Forsman -- gongo-drums,

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, gunguru-klocks & other

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 ...

* Karri Koivukoski --

viola The viola ( , also , ) is a string instrument that is bow (music), bowed, plucked, or played with varying techniques. Slightly larger than a violin, it has a lower and deeper sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of ...

* Jaakko Vuornos --

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

* Salla Salmenkallio --

Notes

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