Irti
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Irti 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
-based, more freely-played album than the preceding Taiteilijaelämää
.
Solo album
A solo album, in popular music, is an album headlined by a current or former member of a band. A solo album may feature simply one person performing all instruments, but typically features the work of other collaborators; rather, it may be made with different collaborators than the artist is...
of Ismo Alanko
Ismo Alanko
Ismo Kullervo Alanko is a Finnish musician. He is known as the frontman of several bands, most famously Hassisen Kone, Sielun Veljet and Ismo Alanko Säätiö, as well as a successful solo artist....
, 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
Musical improvisation
Musical improvisation is the creative activity of immediate musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians...
-based, more freely-played album than the preceding Taiteilijaelämää
Taiteilijaelämää
Taiteilijaelämää 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 Ismo Alanko....
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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 AlankoIsmo AlankoIsmo Kullervo Alanko is a Finnish musician. He is known as the frontman of several bands, most famously Hassisen Kone, Sielun Veljet and Ismo Alanko Säätiö, as well as a successful solo artist....
-- vocals, guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, celloCelloThe cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is... - Jouko Hohko -- bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, vocals - Ismo "Ippe" Kätkä -- drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration... - Riku Mattila—guitar
- Teho Majamäki -- marimbaMarimbaThe marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family. It consists of a set of wooden keys or bars with resonators. The bars are struck with mallets to produce musical tones. The keys are arranged as those of a piano, with the accidentals raised vertically and overlapping the natural keys ...
, vibraphoneVibraphoneThe vibraphone, sometimes called the vibraharp or simply the vibes, is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family....
, keyboardsMusical keyboardA musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the...
, percussion - Ismo "Izmo" Heikkilä -- synthesizerSynthesizerA synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...