1. Maahan Length: 0:58 Composed by Jarno Sarkula Arranged by Alamaailman Vasarat “Into the country”, this title track is a “Vasar-Asian” people’s immigration song. If there’s really nothing to eat and drink left in your country, you have to leave and look for it elsewhere. This was originally intended to be a song with lyrics and sung by the band. We decided to leave it instrumental because the mood and melody are strong enough to carry on their own. This was recorded fully live in one big studio room.

2. Kyyhylly Length: 3:40 Composed by Jarno Sarkula Arranged by Alamaailman Vasarat “Viper shelf”, a film noir story of a weird artefact of a wormy origin, hazardous to all Mankind. It gets stolen and a long chase follows until the artefact is once again put to rest into a vault where it belongs, out of sight.

3. Helmi otsalla Length: 3:36 Composed by Jarno Sarkula, Miikka Huttunen Arranged by Alamaailman Vasarat ”Pearl on the forehead”, this is a crime story set in circus. Someone or something has murdered plenty of carnival artists and an investigation is due. As it usually happens, the guilty party is a lonesome snake, probably a boa or python who’s been treated badly and is now looking for a vengeance. Hear the snake's machine gun leveling our "Poirot" at the end of the song.

4. Luiden valossa, naapurin talossa Length: 3:40 Composed by Jarno Sarkula Arranged by Alamaailman Vasarat ”In the light of bones at the neighbour’s house”. Remember when you had a strange house in your street where nobody seemed to live in but you were sure you saw some lights flicker at night? And your parents told you not to go there whatever the case. Well, in this song you really go in there and get to know why you were warned.

5. Huikeuden lieriö Length: 3:53 Composed by Jarno Sarkula, Marko Manninen, Tuukka Helminen, Miikka Huttunen Arranged by Alamaailman Vasarat ”Cylinder of Greatness”. Space travel is a dangerous business and should not be taken lightly. This is a short story of a bunch of some happy people going up there in a space ship fuelled by, well, whatever. It does end merrily though, but it is unsure how far up they actually got.

6. Eläimet huutaa Length: 5:56 Composed by Jarno Sarkula, Marko Manninen, Tuukka Helminen Arranged by Alamaailman Vasarat ”Animals shouting”. This song is in two parts. First one is a short story of a Vasar-Asian farmer whose rice field gets bombed and he’s obviously not very happy about it. Luckily the animals are shouting in the forest and the farmer finds a new life among many odd beings of nature, ie. Pandas.

7. Lumeen nukkuneet Length: 5:29 Composed and arranged by Alamaailman Vasarat ”Those who fell in the snow”. This song was originally composed for a film about Finnish painter Kalervo Palsa whose sad career ended up very badly. Drunk as always, he passed out one night and froze to death far up north in Lapland. True story!

8. Katkorapu Length: 4:24 Composed by Jarno Sarkula Arranged by Alamaailman Vasarat ”Rehab shrimp”. This song was originally thought of as a mental picture of a Neapolitan wedding or actually a second one which was going on beside the first one in secret. Hard to explain, but nevertheless, it combines some music styles from Mediterranean with odd mixture of jungle rhythms and sax riffs.

9. Käärme toi ruton kaupunkiin Length: 3:24 Composed by Jarno Sarkula, Miikka Huttunen Arranged by Alamaailman Vasarat “A snake brought the plague in the town”. This one is “straight up” dance song with a lot of Klezmer in it. It is also a story about snakes who try to assault one tiny town with a plague. Luckily this ends badly for snakes so the town is saved, at least for now.

10. Rooman ruumiit Length: 3:41 Composed by Jarno Sarkula, Marko Manninen Arranged by Alamaailman Vasarat ”The bodies of Rome”. All along Via Appia, outside Rome, there are miles and miles of catacombs underground. During the night, the corpses wake up and start to look for human flesh. When there's no more room in Hell...

11. Elukka Length: 1:15 Composed by Jarno Sarkula Arranged by Alamaailman Vasarat “Animal”. This is a theme song for a werewolf animation feature film by the same name, directed by Tatu Pohjavirta.

12. Coro a bocca chiusa (Japan release bonus track) Length: 2:57 Composed by Giacomo Puccini Arranged by Alamaailman Vasarat This was intended to be a part of film score and is also the only Alamaailman Vasarat cover song to date. Also known as “Humming chorus”, it is a part of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly opera and was originally arranged for chorus only. Our version has no vocals but sing along if you like.

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