Ilmatar is Värttinä's 8th album, released in 2000.

Ilmatar
Studio album by Värttinä
Released	May 24, 2000
Recorded	November 1999, Finnvox Studios, Helsinki
Genre	Finnish folk music
Length	47:03
Label	BMG Finland
Producer	Hughes de Courson
Värttinä chronology
Vihma (1998) Ilmatar (2000) 6.12 (2001)

The album is named for the Finnish goddess of air Ilmatar who, according to the creation story in the Kalevala, creates the world from two eggs from the eagle Kokko (which is also the name of an earlier Värttinä album). A version of this story (in English and Finnish) is printed in the liner notes of the United States release.

Track listing

1. "Itkin" (Pekka Lehti / Kirsi Kähkönen, Mari Kaasinen, traditional) – 5:20
2. "Käppee" (Kaasinen / Kaasinen, trad.) – 2:34
3. "Laiska" (Kari Reiman / Sirpa Reiman) – 4:06
4. "Liigua" (Susan Aho / Aho, trad.) – 5:08
5. "Milja" (K. Reiman / S. Reiman) – 4:27
6. "Äijö" (Antto Varilo / Kähkönen) – 4:22
7. "Kivutar" (K. Reiman / S. Reiman, K. Reiman, trad.) – 3:28
8. "Linnunmieli" (K. Reiman, trad. / S. Reiman, trad.) – 3:57
9. "Lieto" (K. Reiman) – 3:06
10. "Sanat" (Janne Lappalainen / Kähkönen) – 4:37
11. "Meri" (K. Reiman, S. Reiman, trad.) – 5:59

Personnel

Värttinä

• Susan Aho – vocals
• Mari Kaasinen – vocals
• Kirsi Kähkönen – vocals
• Riikka Väyrynen – vocals
• Janne Lappalainen – bouzouki, soprano saxophone, kaval
• Markku Lepistö – 5-row, 2-row and 1-row accordions, jouhikko
• Pekka Lehti – double bass
• Kari Reiman – fiddle
• Marko Timonen – Galician bass drum, tama, surdo, shekere, klong yaw, bucket, broom, bells, percussion
• Antto Varilo – 6 & 12 string guitars, cümbüş tanbur, 10-string kantele, vocals

Guests

• Hughes de Courson – kantele cluster, piano wires
• Gilles Chabenat – vielle à roue (1, 3, 9, 11)
• Ismo Alanko – spell in 6
• Nagy Lucina – lament in 11 (recorded 1959 in Hungary)

External links

• Värttinä with lyrics, English translations and samples