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History
1) Virta is the channel of the musical ambitions of Santtu Forsström hailing from Kristiinankaupunki - alluring small town located at the beautiful West Coast of Finland. This nature-praising and original music draws its influences from folk and progressive folk-rock, and the music of five tracks of this fourty-minute album is woven together with drums, percussions, lively bass, acoustic guitars and woodwind instruments.
Skillful instrumentation and the progressive elements and song structures create an atmosphere that is at the same time sophisticated and primitively vigorous. "Elon syvä lempi" is rich in nuances, and full of feeling of longing and ethereal calmness. Combined with the ever-present feeling of the element of unpredictability the album truly bears resemblances to the streams and rivers of the North. The calm waters under thin ice can suddenly form a stream and powerful river might abruptly give away it's power, and rest for a while in a form of pond smooth as glass and evaporate slowly just to reincarnate in a from of a strom cloud to the horizon. "Elon syvä lempi" was released 12.12. (1st press 400 pc.) and contains artwork of Samuli Kontio and Eva-Maria Aitsam.
