Things of Beauty
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Things of Beauty is the U.S. release of Loituma's
first of two album
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(Note that these are not exact translations)
Loituma
Loituma is a Finnish quartet whose members combine the Finnish vocal tradition with the sounds of the kantele. Loituma were selected Ensemble of the Year at the 1997 Kaustinen Folk Music Festival.-History:...
first of two album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
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Track listing
- "Eriskummainen kantele / The peculiar kantele" – 3:42
- "Kultaansa ikävöivä / Missing my beloved" – 4:24
- "Viimesen kerran / The very last time" – 3:10
- "Minuet and Polska" – 7:45
- "Kun mun kultani tulisi / If only my darling came" – 5:10
- "Valamon kirkonkellot / Valamo church bells" – 5:34
- "Ai, ai taas sattuu / Oh, oh, it hurts again" – 3:43
- "Suo / Swamp" – 6:49
- "Kolme kaunista / Three things of beauty" – 4:18
- "Ievan PolkkaIevan Polkka"Ievan Polkka" or "Ievan Polokka" is a popular Finnish song with lyrics written in the early 1930s by Eino Kettunen to a traditional Finnish polka tune. The name is commonly misspelled Levan polkka, due to the similarity of lower-case L and upper-case i in sans-serif fonts...
/ Eva's polka" – 2:44
(Note that these are not exact translations)