Hawash!

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Released 1984 (LP), 2003 (CD) Producer Ippe Kätkä Artist Jaakko Löytty Genre Reggae		Length 41:42 Hawash!(1984) Sinisen syvyys(1987) Release date 1984

Recorded Studio JJ, Tampere, 1984 Label just records, (2003, fg-naxos) People also search for Halleluja- Kiitoslauluja arjen keskeltä

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. This song later inspired Löytty 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

Andrej Nowak

Jimmy Amupala — spoken word

Production

Ippe Kätkä — producer, recording engineer, mixing

Heikki Silvennoinen — recording engineer, mixing

Jaakko Löytty, Tuomo Manninen, cover

John Muafangejo, cover woodcut

Songs

1John Muafangeyo2:54
2Orjalaiva (‘The slave ship’)3:59
3Kuusimba (kaukana kotoa) (‘Kuusimba (far from home’)5:24

References

Hawash! Wikipedia

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