Flight of the Angel

by Pekka Pohjola

Flight of the Angel cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: June 1986
  • Label: Pohjola
  • Country: Finland
  • Length: 40:25
  • Community rating: 3.32/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The masterful Finnish bassist and composer further cements his legacy with this complex, purely instrumental outing. Blending robust jazz-rock rhythms with dense symphonic orchestration, the record is widely hailed as a brilliant intersection of modern classical music and progressive fusion.

Genres

Descriptors: Fusion, instrumental, progressive

Tracklist

  1. How About Today? (5:39)
  2. Flight of the Angel (6:26)
  3. Il Carillon (6:48)
  4. Pressure (10:37)
  5. Beauty and the Beast (10:54)

Credits

  • Pentti Lahti - alto saxophone
  • Helj盲 El-Herraoui - cello
  • Keimo Hirvonen - drums
  • Seppo Tyni - guitar
  • Jussi Liski - keyboards
  • Timo Vesajoki - keyboards
  • AP Kivinen - lacquer cut by
  • Liisa Pohjola - piano

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