Musta

Musta

Musta

Editorial Reviews
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Musta is the Finnish word for "black," and there are some dark moods on this solo album by one of Hedningarna's singers. Kurki-Suonio injects the feel of ancient folk to the music, and her voice echoes with snowfields and pine trees--at times she sounds eerily witchy. But it's the mix of acoustic instruments with electronics that sets this record apart--beats, loops, and ambience combine with kantele or accordion to offer a new hybrid for the future. "The Cloud Maiden," epic in spirit, is the perfect example of Kurki-Suonio's style, a journey of sound--and space. As good as so much of the new Scandinavian music has been, Musta raises the standard. --Chris Nickson

Musta,Sanna Kurki-Suonio,Northside Records,Alternative Pop/Rock,Finland,Folk & Traditional,Int'l & World Music,Pop,Prog-Rock/Art Rock,Scandinavian Folk,World Music,Worldbeat
Musta Notta Gotta Lotta
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    		Musta Notta Gotta Lotta
    Joe Ely
    Manufacturer: American Beat
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    GeneralGeneral | Country | Styles | Music
    Outlaw & Progressive CountryOutlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music
    Country RockCountry Rock | Rock | Styles | Music
    ASIN: B000PSJD14
    Release Date: 2007-08-28

    Tracks:

    1. Musta Notta Gotta Lotta
    2. Dallas
    3. Wishin' for You
    4. Hold On
    5. Rock Me My Baby
    6. I Keep Gettin' Paid the Same
    7. Good Rockin' Tonight
    8. Hard Livin'
    9. Road Hawg
    10. Dam of My Heart
    11. Bet Me
    The String Quartet Tribute to Saliva
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      		The String Quartet Tribute to Saliva

      Manufacturer: Vitamin Records
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      GeneralGeneral | Rock | Styles | Music
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      GeneralGeneral | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music
      TributesTributes | Pop | Styles | Music
      ASIN: B0002VETTA
      Release Date: 2004-09-14

      Tracks:

      1. Musta' Been Wrong
      2. Rest In Pieces
      3. Your Disease
      4. Raise Up
      5. My Goodbyes
      6. Faultline
      7. Hollywood
      8. Sand Castle
      9. Superstar II
      10. Call It Something
      11. Always
      12. Call It Nothing

      Product Description

      1. Faultiline
      2. Musta' Been Wrong
      3. Superstar
      4. Always
      5. Raise Up
      6. Hollywood
      7. Your Disease
      8. My Goodbyes
      9. Sand Castle
      10. Rest In Peaces
      11. Call It Something

      Format: CD
      Fond Affection - Works of Ernst Bacon
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        		Fond Affection - Works of Ernst Bacon
        Bacon , Brown , Burtis , Sharp , Musta , and Burton
        Manufacturer: Composers Recordings
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

        Chamber MusicChamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
        GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
        GeneralGeneral | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
        ClassicalClassical | Indie Music | Stores | Music
        ASIN: B0000646U4
        Release Date: 2002-03-01

        Tracks:

        1. Is There Such A Thing As Day?
        2. My River Runs To Thee
        3. When Roses Cease To Bloom, Dear
        4. Schilflied
        5. The Red Rose
        6. Gentle Greeting
        7. Fond Affection
        8. The Commonplace
        9. Grand Is the Seen
        10. Lingering Last Drops
        11. The Last Invocation
        12. The Divine Ship
        13. Omaha
        14. Its ComingThe Postponeless Creature
        15. How Still The Bells
        16. Farewell To A Name And A Number
        17. Brady

        Album Description

        Ernst Bacon was one of that pioneering generation of composers, along with Thomson, Copland, Harris and others, who found a voice for American music. Born in Chicago on May 26, 1898, his Austrian mother gave him a love of song and an early start on the piano. Although his varied career included appearances as pianist and conductor, along with teaching and directing positions, his deepest preoccupation was always composing. His musical awards included a Pulitzer Fellowship in 1932 for his Symphony in D Minor and three Guggenheim Fellowships.

        As a composer, Bacon belonged to no “school” and followed no fads. He was largely self-taught in composition, except for two years study with Karl Weigl in Vienna in the early '20s. While there, he experienced the depression of post-war Europe first hand and concluded that the European avant-garde movement, reflecting the pessimism of that era and region, was not appropriate to America. Returning to Chicago, he set out to write music that expressed the vitality and affirmation of our own country.

        At the age of nineteen, while majoring in mathematics at Northwestern University, Bacon wrote a complex treatise exploring all possible harmonies, which was published by The Open Court Publishing Company (“Our Musical Idiom,” The Monist, October 1917). However, when he began to compose music in his twenties, he rejected a cerebral approach, taking the position that music is an art, not a science. He felt that its source should be intuitive and imaginative, rather than abstract and analytical.

        From his first job as opera coach at the Eastman School in the mid '20s, he went on to receive a master's degree from the University of California at Berkeley and to teach at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music under Ernest Bloch. During

        the '30s he was director of the WPA Federal Music Project and Orchestra in San Francisco and was a founder of the Carmel Bach Festival. From 1938 to 1945 he headed the School of Music at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where he established the New Spartanburg Music Festival. At Syracuse University, he was director of the School of Music from 1945 to 1947 and composer-in-residence and professor of piano until his retirement in 1963.

        In 1964 he returned to the West, settling in the small town of Orinda, California, east of the Berkeley hills. Here, as everywhere else, he drew his greatest inspiration from nature, jotting down notes as he explored local trails. His fertile imagination and constant creative efforts left little time for self-promotion, and although nearly blind in old age, he continued to compose until the very end of his ninety-one years.

        Throughout his long career, Ernst Bacon's chief aim as a composer was to express the spirit of America in music as Whitman, Emerson, Melville and others had done in literature. He was deeply immersed in our country's history and folklore, as well as its indigenous music; and was inspired by the poetry, folk songs, jazz rhythms and geography of America as well as the landscape itself—which he hiked, climbed and also painted. All of these elements found their way into his music.

        Those who influenced Bacon included Carl Sandburg, Thornton Wilder and Roland Hayes. Bacon's music expresses the common touch and humor of Sandburg; the profound simplicity of Wilder; and the melodic beauty that Roland Hayes expressed so movingly in his singing. As with Schubert, a large body of more than 250 art songs is the heart of an oeuvre that also includes numerous chamber, orchestral and choral works, as well as descriptive pieces for piano.

        In 1998 numerous vocal-chamber concerts of Bacon's music were held in honor of his centennial. These events took place at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City; the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress; the Free Library of Philadelphia; Syracuse, New York; Evanston and Chicago, Illinois; also in Berkeley and Waln
        Musta Notta Gotta Lotta
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          		Musta Notta Gotta Lotta
          Joe Ely
          Manufacturer: Southcoast/MCA
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

          GeneralGeneral | Country | Styles | Music
          Outlaw & Progressive CountryOutlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music
          Country RockCountry Rock | Rock | Styles | Music
          ASIN: B00000DW98
          Release Date: 1981-01-01

          Tracks:

          1. Musta Notta Gotta Lotta
          2. Dallas
          3. Wishin' for You
          4. Hold On
          5. Rock Me My Baby
          6. I Keep Gettin' Paid the Same
          7. Good Rockin' Tonight
          8. Hard Livin'
          9. Road Hawg
          10. Dam of My Heart
          11. Bet Me
          Viha Vuodet
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            		Viha Vuodet
            Horna , and Musta Surma
            Manufacturer: Moribund Records
            ProductGroup: Music
            Binding: Audio CD

            GeneralGeneral | Rock | Styles | Music
            Death MetalDeath Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
            GeneralGeneral | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
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            ASIN: B000OONP18
            Release Date: 2007-05-15

            Tracks:

            1. Noidanloitsu - Horna
            2. Uhrivalkea - Horna
            3. Hel - Horna
            4. Praconium - Horna
            5. Surun Ikuistama Henki - Horna
            6. Varjoissa - Horna
            7. Kuolonmyrsky - Musta Surma
            8. Miekka Ja Krusifiksi - Musta Surma
            9. Kristuksen Veri Maljoissamme - Musta Surma
            10. Pedon Uneen - Musta Surma
            11. Usvan Lapset - Musta Surma
            12. Pirunsaarna - Musta Surma
            Musta Notta Gotta Lotta
            Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
            • Musta Notta Gotta Lotta Sleep Listening to This.
            • just rockin' good fun
            		 Musta Notta Gotta Lotta
            Joe Ely
            Manufacturer: Mca
            ProductGroup: Music
            Binding: Audio CD

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            4. Joe Ely/Honky Tonk Masquerade

            ASIN: B000002NX1
            Release Date: 1991-04-02

            Tracks:

            1. Musta Notta Gotta Lotta
            2. Dallas
            3. Wishin' For You
            4. Hold On
            5. Rock Me My Baby
            6. I Keep Gettin' Paid The Same
            7. Good Rockin' Tonight
            8. Hard Livin'
            9. Road Hawg
            10. Dam Of My Heart
            11. Bet Me

            Customer Reviews:

            5 out of 5 stars Musta Notta Gotta Lotta Sleep Listening to This........2001-10-06

            Joe Ely is at his peak on this record. In the 1970's and the 1980's, you couldn't find a more rough-and-tumble country/rock-a-billy singer. HE takes Jerry Lee Lewis and gives it his own spin with wry lyrics about Texan life (I should know, I lived there) and easy beats that allow you to get in touch with your inner boogaloo.
            (His current records are irrelevant, as he fancies himself Tex-Mex Ely with drooping numbers about golddigging Spanish senoritas.)
            Nashville must have stroked out when they heard this one.

            5 out of 5 stars just rockin' good fun.......1998-09-29

            This record is as much fun as "roots music" ever gets. It kicks from beginning to end. Joe Ely is finally getting some credit as a journeyman survivor, but this album shows him off as a great bandleader and crackerjack craftsman of smokey, chewey rock-and-roll.
            Musta
            Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
            • Kate Bush lovers must!
            • very likeable, wonderful work, I listen to it a lot
            • Interesting Fusion Between Tradition and Modern Music
            • Solo?
            • Excellent blend of folk and modern music
            		 Musta
            Sanna Kurki-Suonio
            Manufacturer: Northside Records
            ProductGroup: Music
            Binding: Audio CD

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            FinlandFinland | Scandinavia | Europe | International | Styles | Music
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            4. Trä

            ASIN: B00000DGY0
            Release Date: 1998-11-03

            Tracks:

            1. Tuulen Nostatus (Raising The Wind)
            2. Manaus (Exercation)
            3. Minne (Where)
            4. Ei Musta (Not A Dark One)
            5. Polska Release
            6. Sadelaulu (A Rain Song)
            7. Pilven Tytto (The Cloud Maiden)
            8. Johda Mua (Lead Me)
            9. Vaskilintu (The Bronze Bird)

            Amazon.com

            Musta is the Finnish word for "black," and there are some dark moods on this solo album by one of Hedningarna's singers. Kurki-Suonio injects the feel of ancient folk to the music, and her voice echoes with snowfields and pine trees--at times she sounds eerily witchy. But it's the mix of acoustic instruments with electronics that sets this record apart--beats, loops, and ambience combine with kantele or accordion to offer a new hybrid for the future. "The Cloud Maiden," epic in spirit, is the perfect example of Kurki-Suonio's style, a journey of sound--and space. As good as so much of the new Scandinavian music has been, Musta raises the standard. --Chris Nickson

            Customer Reviews:

            5 out of 5 stars Kate Bush lovers must!.......2004-03-14

            Musta is an excellent collection of traditional folk crossed with modern arrangements and vocalizations. I am not familiar with the band Hedningarna so I do not have a preconceived expectation of how this "should" sound. I DO think it is original and gusty. I have found that its avant-garde nature has grown on me and I come back to the record often.

            I mention Kate Bush in the title bar because the singer reminds me of when I first heard K Bush and my initial impressions of her. She had an infectious shrieking ness to her voice that I found very appealing. The album Musta, had a similar effect on me. Excellent spin!

            5 out of 5 stars very likeable, wonderful work, I listen to it a lot.......2003-04-22

            Sanna, former Finnish female vocalist for Hedningarna, has done great work with this album. It is profoundly emotional, very uplifting, & funky. I don't think that the term "industrial" should apply to music like this, goven the original music the term was first applied to, but she does use a lot of electronic equipment & it is noteworthy music. Of the millions of artists in the world...notably noteworthy...

            5 out of 5 stars Interesting Fusion Between Tradition and Modern Music.......2000-08-13

            When people have heard about Finnish music, then it is mainly Varttina; there are however many other sides to Finnish music. Sanna is just one example of the rich musical tradition of the Finnish people. She manages to combine tradition with a distinctively modern sound, without becoming too tacky. Her voice is very suited for the choice of the songs on this album. You still get some very "traditional" pieces, like the slow "Vaskilintu" (The Bronze Bird), and "ambient" songs like "Tuulen Nostatus" (Raising the Wind) and Pilven Tytto (The Cloud Maiden), but also songs with "dance" beats to them like "Manaus" and my favourite "Ei Musta" (Not a Dark One). All in all a very rounded effort which manages to offer variety to prevent you, the listener, from being bored.

            3 out of 5 stars Solo?.......2000-04-18

            Musta has some good tracks on it but the instrumental in this album is a bit lacking relying on the vocals to much. If you want to hear Sanna Kurki-Suonio at her best go get a Hedningarna album.

            5 out of 5 stars Excellent blend of folk and modern music.......1999-02-24

            Wonderful blend going from the traditional and voice centered folk songs to the dance-club beat of "Exercation". Her lyrics are refreshingly thought out - sometimes pensive, sometimes joyful. She has a mature voice which she wields comfortably. I highly recommend it.
            Musta Lindu
            Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
            • A new venture for me.
            		 Musta Lindu
            Värttinä
            Manufacturer: Olarin
            ProductGroup: Music
            Binding: Audio CD

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            ASIN: B000002VY5
            Release Date: 1994-04-27

            Tracks:

            1. Sorja Poika (Pretty Boy)
            2. Musta Lindu (Black Bird)
            3. Itku (Weep)
            4. Ui Ui (Oh...)
            5. T' Se Li Toinen Tahti (The Second Beat)
            6. Vot I Kaalina
            7. Kadrilli (Quatrille)
            8. m(Old Wives)
            9. Kyluotti Uuttaa Kuuta (Waiting for the New Moon)
            10. Loitsu (Spell)
            11. Ruskie Neitsyt (Brown-Haired Maiden)
            12. Ruskoi Reggae
            13. Ankaralaisen Turistin Maahanpanopolkka (Funeral Polka of an Ankaran Tou

            Customer Reviews:

            5 out of 5 stars A new venture for me........2000-06-10

            I heard one song from "Musta Lindu" on the radio in March. It was "Tast se lahti toinen tahti" and I was hooked all day. It immediately went on my list. I picked it up and I loved every song as much as the one I'd heard.

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