Wednesday, 10 July 2019

Sami Hurmerinta's 1978 masterpiece




He was mentioned here before (among the Pop-Liisas).  Overall, you've got a mix of Jukka Tolonen, Tasavallan, all the slightly proggy electric guitar-based artists of 70s Finland.  Most of the songs have vocals, and the end result is usually soulful rock.  The information in database is here.

The instrumental Summer '72 recalls the gorgeous rock music previously posted by Frank Robson:





That delicate piano plus acoustic guitar opening interplay just gives me chills each time: the way the artists speak to each other so directly, so openly, and with so much feeling-- it's something you don't really hear anymore in music today, for obvious reasons.  And notice the dissonance (on piano) which is so casually thrown in at the end of the intro.  What a great composition.

As usual, I really love the atonal dissonance and modern classical imagination that went into the instrumental track Over the Horizon:








6 comments:

  1. Julianryan10 July 2019 at 04:11


    https://www100.zippyshare.com/v/Ws4dsnPB/file.html
    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/76ogbj



    new ups by request of love live life
    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/yqx012

    rene schenderling
    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/gv6ocm

    golden section
    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/ahnq4x





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  2. Leonardo Nahoum10 July 2019 at 04:37

    Is the other one, "Both Sides Of The Sky" (1983), any good, I wonder...?

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    1. Julianryan10 July 2019 at 05:15

      i'm afraid to buy the record to find out, probably disappointing
      you can hear one minute sample on itunes or somewhere like that, perhaps spotify

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    2. Petteri14 July 2019 at 14:43

      The complete "Both Sides Of the Sky" is on Spotify (at least in Finland).

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    3. propylaen20016 August 2019 at 09:28

      The full album can also be listend to on YouTube. I have just added them all to the Discogs entry:
      https://www.discogs.com/de/Sami-Hurmerinta-Both-Sides-Of-The-Sky/release/5218310

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  3. Petteri14 July 2019 at 14:48

    Thanks for this.
    You'll note that Maarit, the wife of Sami and the main vocalist here, also sings lead on 1, 3 & 4 on the Kim Kuusi album, not to mention has had a successful career on her own. In fact all the other singers here had both solo and band careers; Pave Maijanen, the co-vocalist on the first track, was with Paradise/Royals/Mistakes/others/solo, Pepe Willberg with Jormas/Paradise/solo, and obviously that's Frank Robson (Tasavallan Presidentti/solo) on "Thunder Storm" although for some reason he's only credited for lyrics.

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