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Rent Romus - alto saxophone, melodica; Heikki "Mike" Koskinen - tenor recorder, E-trumpet, kantele; Heikki Laitinen - vocals; Joshua Marshall - c-flute, tenor saxophone; 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, percussion

lyrics

In Finnish
Miksis sie heittelit miun aniarvottomaks, tukiturvattomaks. (2x)
Miksis sie jättelit miun niille ikuikäväisille (2x)
Milläs mie suututtelin sen suloisen suuren luojaisen.
Milläs mie vihastuttelin sen ylhäisen ylen jumalaisen.
Nyt sie oot peitelty niillä ikupeittehoisil.
Nyt sie oot kateltu niillä ikukattehoisil.

In English
Why did you cast me worthless, without support. (2x)
Why did you leave me to the eternal sorrows. (2x)
How did I anger the wonderful great creator.
How did I anger the noble god? (last two lines only at the end)
Now you’ve been covered for eternity in your grave.
Now you’ve been placed under a burial structure.
A poem by Larin Paraske an Ingrian/Izhorian oral poet/singer 1893 Public domain
Opening audio clip: Domna Huovinen YLE interview 26 April 1952

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from Itkuja Suite, invocations on lament, released April 4, 2023
by Heikki “Mike” Koskinen - TEOSTO

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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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