Title: Black Bird = Musta Lindu (in Finnish) = Black Heart
Product review: This album, Varttina's second, is very hard to find, even in the re-issue edition in which I finally found it. I think this is for serious, serious Varttina fans (like me), and for good reason. This album just does not measure up to either their first album, or to their third, "Oi Dai." The singing is much like we find on the first album, but I noted on listening to "Black Bird" that in some places the instrumentalists were just not together, either not quite on beat or not quite on key. Maybe they had not yet learned to do multiple takes in the studio. The first album is recognizably Varttina, and is full of good singing and enthusiasm. "Black Bird" is perhaps too ambitious - a case of growing pains. On "Oi Dai" they really get it together, and maybe that is where most people's Varttina collections should start.
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