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Loisto – The Collection is the first collection album by singer-songwriter
Johanna Iivanainen. It sums up her incredibly versatile and active career
within the past ten years as a recording artist.
Loisto, however, is not a traditional hit collection, even though it includes
many popular songs – Loisto is more of a selection of songs which have
a great importance to the artist herself, and from which one can hear Johanna Iivanainen’s presence and contribution beyond singing.
Johanna herself describes the record with following liner notes:
”This album is a collection of songs that have and haven’t been recorded in past
10 years. I’ve worked in many bands as a visiting singer, but this record brings
forth mostly songs that I’ve done as a composer or a songwriter.”
The opening track Loisto is Johanna’s own song, a beautiful, almost forgotten piece of music which was originally
released in the album Free Control II (2001). Three of the songs Forces Of Nature, I Bear My Burden and I’m Waiting were previously released on Johanna’s first solo album Johanna Iivanainen (2004). There are also two songs
from Korpi Ensemble named Witness and Echoes, and quite amazing, bossanova spirited version of The Scorpions
megahit Still Loving You. Taulu and Hiljainen Poika are songs Johanna has recorded with 1N band.
Johanna tells, how the songs on Loisto – The Collection were chosen:
”We took in some specialities, such as the hidden track Lennosta Kii! from Eero Koivistoinen Band’s newest record
and Jimi Hendrix’s Hear My Train a-Comin’ from year 1997, which was originally recorded only for demo purposes.
That’s when we started working together with my husband Mikko
Iivanainen, and in this record you can also hear our new songs we
just recorded in Spring 2008 at Perfect Sound Studios as a duo,
Old Country and Count The Waves. Last but not least I have
to mention Kultaralli, a great composition by Kalle Kalima.
Beautiful lyrics were written by his wife Essi Kalima. Kultaralli
was originally recorded by Soi Ensemble.”
Loisto – The Collection is released in co-operation with
Backstage Alliance and Presence Records. The album will
also be released in Germany, Austria and Switzerland by the
German Nordic Notes record company.
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Promotion:
Milla Palovaara
Promotion Manager
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+358-40-596 7973
Matti Kervinen
Presence Records
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+358-40-7685436
BACKSTAGE ALLIANCE
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6 A, 3 krs.
FIN-00100 Helsinki
www.backstagealliance.com
www.presencerecords.fi
www.nordic-notes.de