So the CD editions of Obus and Iso lintu are out, and both sound very good to my ears, full but not overcooked. Quality work, as is usually the case with Rocket Records productions. Obus has a very lavish booklet, Iso lintu a more pedestrian one. The Dylan covers on Iso lintu are nothing special, though the tongue-in-the-cheek pop entry “Janne” with its Sibelius quotes is a nice thematic twin to the song “Kuinka ollakaan” on the album. The Obus bonus tracks are more in line with the album material, though I wouldn’t call either one essential (unlike their composer ).
Anyway, here is my translation of Juha Rantala’s rather lengthy essay on Nimbus, with a few annotations and additions that a non-Finnish reader might find useful. It's split between two posts to get around the 10 000 character limitation.
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