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Rungoteus / Rongoteus / Runkoteira / Rukiteera: a Karelian Spirit God who helps rye grow; 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

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In Finnish In English
Rongoteus (2X) Rongoteus – spirit of rye (Ruista annoi)
Pellonpecko (2X) Pellonpecko – spirit of barley (Ohran casvon soi)
Wirancannos Wirancannos – spirit of oats (Cauran caitzi)
Rongoteus Rongoteus – spirit of rye (Ruista annoi)

//:Ja quin Kevätkylvö kylvettiin And when the spring sowing got done
Silloin ukon Malja juotiin ”Ukko” (Main God) was toasted
Siihen haettiin ukon vacka And Ukko was celebrated
Niin juopui Piica että Acka:// So that the maid and wife got drunk
Words from: Mikael Agricola (1551) Public domain

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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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