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Artist.......: Indica
Album........: A Way Away
Label........: Nuclear Blast
Genre........: Rock
Catnr........: NB 2522-0
Source.......: CD (LP)
Rip.date.....: 2010-06-29
Str.date.....: 2010-06-28
Quality......: 218kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.indica-music.com

track  title                                          time

 1.    Islands of Light                               3:02
 2.    Precious Dark                                  3:50
 3.    Children of Frost                              5:21
 4.    Lilja's Lament                                 5:55
 5.    In Passing                                     3:44
 6.    Scissor Paper Rock                             4:29
 7.    A Way Away                                     5:05
 8.    As If                                          3:28
 9.    Straight and Arrow                             3:31
 10.   Eerie Eden                                     8:01
 11.   Outside In (Bonus Track)                       3:50


                                            Runtime  50:16
                                            Size     77.87


Release Notes:

Two tours with Nightwish, one platinum and two golds in   
Finland, numerous top-ten singles - for Indica it seems   
that the only way is up. Tuomas Holopainen of Nightwish,  
who discovered the band and gave them his support, said: "
Indica has such sights to show you! You will be spellbound
for a lifetime!"                                          
                                                          
But let’s start from the beginning: the Finnish girl group
was founded in 2001 by schoolmates Jonsu (vocals, violin, 
guitar, keyboards, theremin) and Heini (bass), who had    
played together in a children’s string orchestra. Their   
line-up was soon completed by Sirkku (keyboards, clarinet,
piano), Jenny (guitar) and Laura (drums, percussion). Five
beautiful girls with just one thing in common: as fully   
fledged musicians, they’re all light years away from      
casting shows and musical triviality. And they’re also    
great friends. "You can’t predict success", says singer   
and lyricist Jonsu, "so I didn’t think about it much.”    
                                                          
Nevertheless, success came their way pretty quickly: in   
2003, they signed their first recording contract and began
work on their debut album, "Ikuinen Virta", which spent 30
weeks in the Finnish charts and reached platinum sales.   
Like going from zero to 60 in three seconds, they’ve taken
their country by storm with their contemporary mix of pop,
rock, exotic instruments, Finnish melancholy and mystical,
nature-inspired lyrics. The press promptly coined a neat  
description: mystic romantic pop.                         
                                                          
The band has since released three more albums in Finland, 
two of which went gold, remaining in the charts for weeks.
The last of the three, "Valoissa" (2008), was produced by 
Nightwish boss Holopainen who also produced the band’s new
album "A Way Away". The recordings were co-produced by    
Roland Spremberg (A-ha and Him, among others) and mixed by
Mark Schettler (Simply Red, Bullet for my Valentine, just 
to mention a few). It is their first album in English for 
the international market. "I had butterflies in my tummy  
when I first sang the English lyrics", Jonsu remembers and
listeners will as well when they hear "A Way Away", an    
album filled with lush soundscapes and rich emotion.      
"Alongside nature, film soundtracks have the biggest      
influence on me", says the songwriter.                    
                                                          
So now there’s only one thing left to do: just press play 
- and let yourself be spellbound.