CMX - Vainajala (1998)

CMX - Vainajala (1998)

Tracklist front / back album covers download

"Iskusävelmä" – 3:38 ("Hit Song")

"Surunmurhaaja" – 3:47 ("Murderer of Sorrow")

"Vainajala" – 6:07

"Vierasta viljaa" – 4:14 ("Foreign Grain")

"Ei yksikään" – 3:26 ("Not One")

"Taivaan lapset" – 3:50 ("Children of Heaven")

"Sillanrakentaja" – 4:14 ("Bridgebuilder")

"Laulu palavasta linnusta" – 4:00 ("Song about a Burning Bird")

"Eufrat" – 1:29

"Kirjeitä paratiisista" – 3:56 ("Letters from Paradise")

"Arkangeli" – 3:17 ("Arkhangelsk")

"Vanha talvitie" – 5:59 ("Old Winter Road")

CMX Band Members / Musicians / Album Credits

A. W. Yrjänä – vocals, bass guitar

Janne Halmkrona – guitars

Timo Rasio – guitars

Tuomas Peippo – drums

Guests

Billy Gould – producer

Martti Salminen – keyboard, vocals

Susanna Eronen – vocals

Teropekka Virtanen – recording, mixing

Mika Jussila – mastering

Janne Uotila – sleeve design

Singles

"Ei yksikään" / "Linnunhammas (live)" (October 1998)

"Sillanrakentaja" / "Punainen nro 6" (November 1998)

"Surunmurhaaja" / "π" / "Aivosähköä (live)" (March 1999)

Vainajala (1998) is an album by the Finnish rock group CMX. Vainaja is Finnish for a dead person, Vainajala meaning a name of a place inhabited by the dead.

The style that Vainajala was produced was highly exceptional: The band went to a small cottage in the middle of Lapland with mobile recording equipment and producer Billy Gould, who had previously shown interest in the band largely unknown outside Finland. Recording Vainajala took only two weeks, much less than the recording time for any of their other recent albums. The album was later finished at the Herodes studio in Helsinki, but the musical style of the album is still very minimalistic. Only a few visiting artists performed on the album.