Ilmatar (album)

Ilmatar
Studio album by Värttinä
Released	May 24, 2000
Recorded	November 1999, Finnvox Studios, Helsinki
Genre	Finnish folk music
Length	47:03
Label	BMG Finland
Producer	Hughes de Courson
Värttinä chronology

Ilmatar is Värttinä's 8th album, released in 2000.

The album is named for the Finnish goddess of air Ilmatar who, according to the creation story in the Kalevala, creates the world from two eggs from the eagle Kokko (which is also the name of an earlier Värttinä album). A version of this story (in English and Finnish) is printed in the liner notes of the United States release.

Track listing

"Itkin" (Pekka Lehti / Kirsi Kähkönen, Mari Kaasinen, traditional) – 5:20
"Käppee" (Kaasinen / Kaasinen, trad.) – 2:34
"Laiska" (Kari Reiman / Sirpa Reiman) – 4:06
"Liigua" (Susan Aho / Aho, trad.) – 5:08
"Milja" (K. Reiman / S. Reiman) – 4:27
"Äijö" (Antto Varilo / Kähkönen) – 4:22
"Kivutar" (K. Reiman / S. Reiman, K. Reiman, trad.) – 3:28
"Linnunmieli" (K. Reiman, trad. / S. Reiman, trad.) – 3:57
"Lieto" (K. Reiman) – 3:06
"Sanat" (Janne Lappalainen / Kähkönen) – 4:37
"Meri" (K. Reiman, S. Reiman, trad.) – 5:59

Personnel

Värttinä

Susan Aho – vocals
Mari Kaasinen – vocals
Kirsi Kähkönen – vocals
Riikka Väyrynen – vocals
Janne Lappalainen – bouzouki, soprano saxophone, kaval
Markku Lepistö – 5-row, 2-row and 1-row accordions, jouhikko
Pekka Lehti – double bass
Kari Reiman – fiddle
Marko Timonen – Galician bass drum, tama, surdo, shekere, klong yaw, bucket, broom, bells, percussion
Antto Varilo – 6 & 12 string guitars, cümbüş tanbur, 10-string kantele, vocals

Guests

Hughes de Courson – kantele cluster, piano wires
Gilles Chabenat – vielle à roue (1, 3, 9, 11)
Ismo Alanko – spell in 6
Nagy Lucina – lament in 11 (recorded 1959 in Hungary)

External links

Värttinä with lyrics, English translations and samples

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