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Hawash!
''Hawash!'' is a 1984 album by Finnish gospel musician Jaakko Löytty. It is his first album with clear African influences. The title song was inspired by the Oromo musician Ali Mohammed Birra, whom Löytty met in 1976 during the Etiopiasafari tour. He met Birra in an Addis Abeba nightclub and bought his LP, which included a song about the River Hawash. Löytty wrote down a translation of the lyrics of the song on the inner sleeve of the album. This song later inspired him to write a song of the same name, the title song of this album. Track listing *All words and music by Jaakko Löytty, arrangements by Jaakko Löytty and Ippe Kätkä. ;Side one ;Side two Hawashband *Jaakko Löytty — vocals, acoustic guitar *Mikko Löytty — bass *Sakari Löytty — drums, percussion * Ippe Kätkä — drums, percussion *Heikki Silvennoinen — guitars * Jouko Laivuori — keyboards Guests * Taru Hallama — vocals *Pave Maijanen — vocals *Lucjan Czaplicki — saxophone *Andrej No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaakko Löytty Jaakko Löytty (born 1955, Finland) is one of the most significant Finnish gospel musicians. Löytty spent much of his youth, 12 years, in Namibia, where his parents, Seppo Löytty and Kirsti Löytty worked as missionaries with the Finnish Missionary Society. He went to the Swakopmund Finnish School. He himself has been a missionary with the FMS, to Senegal, where he developed church music and edited a hymnal in the local languages. Löytty works for Herättäjä-Yhdistys, as a regional worker in Satakunta, Varsinais-Suomi and Tavastia. Since 2008, he has lived in Ylöjärvi, where he also lived as a teenager, after his family returned to Finland from Africa in 1968. Löytty is married to author Kaija Pispa. His brothers Sakari Löytty and Mikko Löytty are also musicians. His youngest brother, Olli Löytty, is an academic. Löytty's musical influences can be found from Americana, in the blues and country music, but also in reggae and in African music. He has compose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items |