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10-06-2013, 02:06 AM
VA – Jukebox: Music In The Films Of Aki Kaurismaki (2006, FLAC+320)
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Tracklist:
Disc 1:
01. Harri Marstio — Serenade (3:20)
02. The Renegades — Cadillac (2:41)
03. Olavi Virta — Sa et kyynelta naa (3:08)
04. Harri Marstio — Ala kiiruhda (4:00)
05. Melrose — Rich Little Bitch (3:51)
06. Timo Jamsen & Strangers — Yyterin twist (1:48)
07. Georg Ots — Muuttuvat laulut (3:43)
08. Topi Sorsakoski & Agents — Kunhan palaan takaisin (2:30)
09. Leningrad Cowboys — Thru' the Wire (6:17)
10. Rauli Badding Somerjoki — Valot (3:11)
11. Olavi Virta — Sateenkaaren tuolla puolen (3:05)
12. Leningrad Cowboys — The Cossack Song (4:00)
13. Leningrad Cowboys — Ballad of The Leningrad Cowboys (2:42)
14. Badding Rockers — Se jokin sinulla on (2:12)
15. Reijo Taipale — Satumaa (3:01)
16. Joe Strummer — Burning Lights (2:45)
17. Olavi Virta — Ennen kuolemaa (2:48)
18. Carlos Gardel — Mi Buenos Aires querido (2:41)
19. Anssi Tikanmaki — L'influence du bleu dans l'art (1:51)
20. Toshitake Shinohara — Yukino furu Machio (3:08)
21. Serge Reggiani — De velours et de soie (2:06)
22. Leningrad Cowboys — Those Were The Days (4:16)
23. The Blazers — Old Scars (2:17)
24. Georg Ots — Mustanmeren valssi (2:53)
Disc 2:
01. Regals — Think It Over (2:52)
02. Leningrad Cowboys — Nolo tengo dinares (2:44)
03. Leningrad Cowboys & Andre Wilms — Kili Watch (2:04)
04. Leningrad Cowboys & Sakari Kuosmanen — Delilah (4:23)
05. Alexandrov Red Army Choir — Dark Eyes (4:53)
06. Rauli Badding Somerjoki — Pilvet karkaa niin minakin (2:41)
07. Markus Allan — Kohtalon tuulet (4:19)
08. Badding Rockers — Myrskyn keskella (2:58)
09. Henry Theel — Syyspihlajan alla (2:29)
10. Rauli Badding Somerjoki — Kuihtuu kesainen maa (3:03)
11. Anssi Tikanmaki — Juha (3:42)
12. Tapio Rautavaara — Lokki (2:47)
13. Marko Haavisto & Poutahaukat — Paha vaanii (3:56)
14. Antero Jakoila — Bandoneon (4:52)
15. The Renegades — My Heart Must Do The Crying (3:42)
16. Annikki Tahti — Muistatko Monrepos'n (3:01)
17. Melrose — In The Meanwhile (2:57)
18. Carlos Gardel — Volver (2:57)
19. Jussi Bjorling — Donna non vidi mai (Manon Lescaut) (2:23)
20. Geronimo — Jaatynyt sade (4:11)
21. Toshitake Shinohara — Ogonek (3:44)
22. Fred Gouin — Les temps des cerises (2:48)
FLAC - https://mega.co.nz/#!TlQiyJTJ!c-zcGF1iTMpjhBnb02e9n1Mz9r1g67aqBmkwPob0VvQ
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A wonderful collection of music from the excellent movies by the famous Finnish director Aki Kaurism�ki.
The rules of the game were clear when the credits for the soundtrack of Aki Kaurism�ki's debut film Crime and Punishment gave the names Franz Schubert, Dmitri Shostakovich, Olavi Virta, the Renegades, Harri Marstio and Billie Holiday. Dostoevskian to say the least! Added to these as Kaurismaki’s career progressed were Tchaikovsky (the Pathetique Symphony a dozen or so times!), Shostakovich, Chuck Berry, the great Estonian Georg Ots, rhythm & blues, Finnish rock’n’roll (Melrose, with Tokela in the vocal lead), Jussi Bjorling, and Toshitake Shinohara - the Japanese composer of a host of beautiful scores now settled permanently in Karkkila, home of Kaurism�ki himself.
Not all are familiar to a non-Finnish audience. Yet Finn and foreigner, familiar and unfamiliar are as such one seamless entity, their associations equally fascinating. The director himself says he grabs armfuls of discs off his shelf at home before setting off for the editing room. The music is seldom original: Mauri Sumen (the Leningrad Cowboys films), Anssi Tikanmaki (Juha, “the last silent film of the 20th century”), to a lesser degree Antero Jakoila, whose moving bandoneon sets The Man without a Past rolling.
Kaurism�ki it was who created “the worlds worst rock n’ roll band”, the Leningrad Cowboys, that abandoned the tundra for the United States. The result: two full-length films, a few shorts and a documentation (The Total Balalaika Show) of the amazing meeting of East and West in the concert given by the Leningrad Cowboys together with the Red Army Ensemble. The merging of elements of Finnish hits, rock ‘n’ roll and Slav overtones was personified in Rauli “Badding” Somerjoki (1948-87), a vocalist who met an untimely death and to whom Drifting Clouds is dedicated. Harri Marstio, Topi Sorsakoski, Markus Allan and Marko Haavisto (renowned for his Salvation Army band in The Man without a Past) all represent the same generation and the same all round awareness as Badding. And they similarly share a respect for all musical genres.
At the core is the Finnish popular song: its unsurpassed composer Toivo Karki, and great singers such as Henry Theel, Reijo Taipale and Annikki Tahti, whose most legendary numbers are now recorded on film. Tahti’s Monrepos, for example, was the best-selling record of the 1950s, epitomising the feelings and loss of the post-war era impossible to express in words. The longing in Taipales Satumaa, the fairytale land across the sea, captures the very essence of what matters most: lost happiness, melancholy, memories are recurring themes that are again varied by Kaurism�ki's American slants handled with the delicacy of a memory.
Olavi Virta, the undisputed king of the Finnish tango and the Finnish hit in general, features well over a dozen times in nine films. Ariel, for example, ends with a shot of a ship lit up in a way that recalls the glamour of Amarcord.. Playing in the background is Virta’s dazzling version of Over the Rainbow.
Aki Kaurism�ki delighted the media by claiming that the tango was in fact born in Finland, and that the Argentinean tango is nothing but an imitation. After the Second World War famous tangos such as La Cumparsita, Jealousy, etc., known the world over in purely instrumental versions were supplied with Finnish lyrics. This was partly due to the inhibited undercurrent of the open-air dance pavilions popular in Finland in summer. The Finnish male pressing his lady to his heart on the dance floor is lost for words, but the tango expresses his thoughts. Aki Kaurism�ki likewise tells a story in song. Music is the nations latent memory, a utopia amid grinding reality, an engram from early childhood, maybe a sound image heard in the womb already..
Review by Peter von Bagh
(http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/42/8jrn.jpg/)
Tracklist:
Disc 1:
01. Harri Marstio — Serenade (3:20)
02. The Renegades — Cadillac (2:41)
03. Olavi Virta — Sa et kyynelta naa (3:08)
04. Harri Marstio — Ala kiiruhda (4:00)
05. Melrose — Rich Little Bitch (3:51)
06. Timo Jamsen & Strangers — Yyterin twist (1:48)
07. Georg Ots — Muuttuvat laulut (3:43)
08. Topi Sorsakoski & Agents — Kunhan palaan takaisin (2:30)
09. Leningrad Cowboys — Thru' the Wire (6:17)
10. Rauli Badding Somerjoki — Valot (3:11)
11. Olavi Virta — Sateenkaaren tuolla puolen (3:05)
12. Leningrad Cowboys — The Cossack Song (4:00)
13. Leningrad Cowboys — Ballad of The Leningrad Cowboys (2:42)
14. Badding Rockers — Se jokin sinulla on (2:12)
15. Reijo Taipale — Satumaa (3:01)
16. Joe Strummer — Burning Lights (2:45)
17. Olavi Virta — Ennen kuolemaa (2:48)
18. Carlos Gardel — Mi Buenos Aires querido (2:41)
19. Anssi Tikanmaki — L'influence du bleu dans l'art (1:51)
20. Toshitake Shinohara — Yukino furu Machio (3:08)
21. Serge Reggiani — De velours et de soie (2:06)
22. Leningrad Cowboys — Those Were The Days (4:16)
23. The Blazers — Old Scars (2:17)
24. Georg Ots — Mustanmeren valssi (2:53)
Disc 2:
01. Regals — Think It Over (2:52)
02. Leningrad Cowboys — Nolo tengo dinares (2:44)
03. Leningrad Cowboys & Andre Wilms — Kili Watch (2:04)
04. Leningrad Cowboys & Sakari Kuosmanen — Delilah (4:23)
05. Alexandrov Red Army Choir — Dark Eyes (4:53)
06. Rauli Badding Somerjoki — Pilvet karkaa niin minakin (2:41)
07. Markus Allan — Kohtalon tuulet (4:19)
08. Badding Rockers — Myrskyn keskella (2:58)
09. Henry Theel — Syyspihlajan alla (2:29)
10. Rauli Badding Somerjoki — Kuihtuu kesainen maa (3:03)
11. Anssi Tikanmaki — Juha (3:42)
12. Tapio Rautavaara — Lokki (2:47)
13. Marko Haavisto & Poutahaukat — Paha vaanii (3:56)
14. Antero Jakoila — Bandoneon (4:52)
15. The Renegades — My Heart Must Do The Crying (3:42)
16. Annikki Tahti — Muistatko Monrepos'n (3:01)
17. Melrose — In The Meanwhile (2:57)
18. Carlos Gardel — Volver (2:57)
19. Jussi Bjorling — Donna non vidi mai (Manon Lescaut) (2:23)
20. Geronimo — Jaatynyt sade (4:11)
21. Toshitake Shinohara — Ogonek (3:44)
22. Fred Gouin — Les temps des cerises (2:48)
FLAC - https://mega.co.nz/#!TlQiyJTJ!c-zcGF1iTMpjhBnb02e9n1Mz9r1g67aqBmkwPob0VvQ
---------- Post added at 02:06 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:06 AM ----------
A wonderful collection of music from the excellent movies by the famous Finnish director Aki Kaurism�ki.
The rules of the game were clear when the credits for the soundtrack of Aki Kaurism�ki's debut film Crime and Punishment gave the names Franz Schubert, Dmitri Shostakovich, Olavi Virta, the Renegades, Harri Marstio and Billie Holiday. Dostoevskian to say the least! Added to these as Kaurismaki’s career progressed were Tchaikovsky (the Pathetique Symphony a dozen or so times!), Shostakovich, Chuck Berry, the great Estonian Georg Ots, rhythm & blues, Finnish rock’n’roll (Melrose, with Tokela in the vocal lead), Jussi Bjorling, and Toshitake Shinohara - the Japanese composer of a host of beautiful scores now settled permanently in Karkkila, home of Kaurism�ki himself.
Not all are familiar to a non-Finnish audience. Yet Finn and foreigner, familiar and unfamiliar are as such one seamless entity, their associations equally fascinating. The director himself says he grabs armfuls of discs off his shelf at home before setting off for the editing room. The music is seldom original: Mauri Sumen (the Leningrad Cowboys films), Anssi Tikanmaki (Juha, “the last silent film of the 20th century”), to a lesser degree Antero Jakoila, whose moving bandoneon sets The Man without a Past rolling.
Kaurism�ki it was who created “the worlds worst rock n’ roll band”, the Leningrad Cowboys, that abandoned the tundra for the United States. The result: two full-length films, a few shorts and a documentation (The Total Balalaika Show) of the amazing meeting of East and West in the concert given by the Leningrad Cowboys together with the Red Army Ensemble. The merging of elements of Finnish hits, rock ‘n’ roll and Slav overtones was personified in Rauli “Badding” Somerjoki (1948-87), a vocalist who met an untimely death and to whom Drifting Clouds is dedicated. Harri Marstio, Topi Sorsakoski, Markus Allan and Marko Haavisto (renowned for his Salvation Army band in The Man without a Past) all represent the same generation and the same all round awareness as Badding. And they similarly share a respect for all musical genres.
At the core is the Finnish popular song: its unsurpassed composer Toivo Karki, and great singers such as Henry Theel, Reijo Taipale and Annikki Tahti, whose most legendary numbers are now recorded on film. Tahti’s Monrepos, for example, was the best-selling record of the 1950s, epitomising the feelings and loss of the post-war era impossible to express in words. The longing in Taipales Satumaa, the fairytale land across the sea, captures the very essence of what matters most: lost happiness, melancholy, memories are recurring themes that are again varied by Kaurism�ki's American slants handled with the delicacy of a memory.
Olavi Virta, the undisputed king of the Finnish tango and the Finnish hit in general, features well over a dozen times in nine films. Ariel, for example, ends with a shot of a ship lit up in a way that recalls the glamour of Amarcord.. Playing in the background is Virta’s dazzling version of Over the Rainbow.
Aki Kaurism�ki delighted the media by claiming that the tango was in fact born in Finland, and that the Argentinean tango is nothing but an imitation. After the Second World War famous tangos such as La Cumparsita, Jealousy, etc., known the world over in purely instrumental versions were supplied with Finnish lyrics. This was partly due to the inhibited undercurrent of the open-air dance pavilions popular in Finland in summer. The Finnish male pressing his lady to his heart on the dance floor is lost for words, but the tango expresses his thoughts. Aki Kaurism�ki likewise tells a story in song. Music is the nations latent memory, a utopia amid grinding reality, an engram from early childhood, maybe a sound image heard in the womb already..
Review by Peter von Bagh