Things of Beauty

Loituma

1995/1998 NorthSide NSD6010

1. Eriskummainen Kantele / My Kantele
2. Kultaansa Ikävöivä / There Is My Lover
3. Viimsen Kerran / The Very Last Time
4. Minuet and Polska
5. Kun Mun Kultani Tulisi / Missing Him
6. Valamon Kirkonkellot / Valamo Cloister Bells
7. Ai, Ai Taas Sattuu / Oh, Oh, It Hurts Again
8. Suo / Marshland
9. Kolme Kaunista / Three Things of Beauty
10. Ievan Polkka / Leva’s Polka

Intensely beautiful and bewilderingly creative developments of Finnish musical heritage. This was my introduction to Finland’s modern folk-music revival’s potential, and to get that via this collaboration of four stellar individual artists was a gift I hardly realized I was being given when the album first dropped from the heavens into my hands.

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