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Rent Romus - alto saxophone; *Heikki "Mike" Koskinen - E-trumpet; Heikki Laitinen – vocals; Joshua Marshall - tenor saxophones; *Erika Oba – c-flute; Ann McChesney-Young – accordion; Max Judelson – cello; Mark Clifford – vibraphone; Safa Shokrai - double bass; Cory Combs - double bass; Timothy Orr - drums

lyrics

In Finnish
Kuule (5x)
Kuule huutoni!
Kuule (3x)
Kalliosta repäistynä kauan sitten
Pimeys muuttuu valoksi (2x)
Pienokainen palaa kotiin maihin kaukaisiin
Kuule huutoni.
Äiti! Vie mut viimein kiven ja koivun luo!
Pimeys särkee siipeni (2x)
Pikku lintu palaa maille valon säteiden.
Kuule (3x)
In English
Hear me! (5x)
Hear me when I’m lost!
Hear me! (3x)
Torn from rock long gone a waiting time to pass.
Darkness breaks to shining light (2x)
In the field the little one returns to lands untold.
Hear me when I’m lost.
Mother bring me back to stone and birch.
Empty darkness breaks my wing (2x)
Little bee returns to lands once sewn with beads of light.
Hear me!(3x)
Ending Verse
In Finnish
Kuule huutoni!
Äiti! vie mut viimein kiven ja koivun luo!

In English
Hear me when I’m lost!
Mother bring me back to stone and birch.

Words by Rent Romus (2021)

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from Itkuja Suite, invocations on lament, released April 4, 2023
by Rent Romus - Jazz On the Line Publishing, BMI

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Rent Romus San Francisco, California

Rent Romus hailed by Downbeat as having "a bold sound, unmistakable sincerity and conviction". A third generation Finnish American born in the great north of upper Michigan and growing up in the San Francisco Bay ,Romus' work on the saxophone has been dubbed “ferocious” by the San Francisco Weekly and “central to the creative music world of the West Coast” by writer jazz critic Frank Rubolino. ... more

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