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Release April 1 / 2021

Zarine - I loved 'Em All

Departure of my beloved partner

No Warning

Was playing around with some chords and was stuck for inspiration on a theme. My 9 year old wandered into the "studio" (spare room) so I said give me a title for a song. He told me he had only come in to say he was "missing pieces" of lego. So I said Missing Pieces will be the title and it grew from there 😃
I asked my good buddy Johnny from No Killie Fish to lay some of his awesome guitar lines for the lead guitar and I think it has really added some flavor to the track and the solo is killer!! He is an exceptional player and an even better person, check out his page at https://soundcloud.com/johnnymc2

Missing Pieces (with Johnny McFarlane)

NOWHERE TO GO TO
NOWHERE TO COME FROM
AIN’T THAT MAGICAL
THE AIR TO GO THROUGH
THE ROAD FOR KINGDOM
I ANSWER THE CALL

DAYS OF HARBORING
WAYS OF ANCHORING
LONG GONE THEY ARE NOW
CIRCLE WANDERING
CRAZY WONDERING
ABOUT WHY OR HOW
ARE ALL OVER NOW

THE GAME IS RULING
THE RULES ARE CHANGING
CHANCE IS AT COMMAND
THE SEA FOR SAILING
THE SKY FOR CEILING
 PLUS TIME ON MY HANDS

DAYS OF SHELTERING
FEARFUL WINTERING
SOON GONE WILL BE NOW
TIMES OF MADDENING
MISHMASH HAPPENINGS
WITH NO WHY NOR HOW
ARE ALL OVER NOW

I AM HERE AND THERE
ALL IS CLEAR AND FAIR

DAYS OF SLUMBERING 
MIDNIGHT STUMBLING
LONG DONE THEY ARE NOW
CHEAP TALK OFFERING
USELESS BLATTERING
ASKING WHY OR HOW
LEFT OUT THERE ARE NOW

I AM HERE AND THERE
ALL IS CLEAR AND FAIR
  
CAN IT BE A DREAM
AN AWAKENING 
I REALLY COULDN’T TELL
THE END TO BE SEEN 
OR THE BEGINNING 
BLIND WILLY MIGHT TELL

DAYS OF TRAVELLING
AIMLESS WANDERING
BACK HERE THERE ARE NOW
WAYS OF GOOD-BYEING
AND WINGS OPENING
AT REACH THEY ARE NOW
WITH NO WHY NOR HOW
 
SAY GOODBYE FOR ME 
TO EACH AND NO ONE
IN PARTICULAR
WHAT WILL BE WE’LL SEE
HOPING IT WILL BE
SO SPECTACULAR

DAYS OF BACK-LOOKING 
REGRETFUL DRIFTING
OVER THEY ARE NOW
TIMES FOR MIND-BLOWING
GOLD DUST IN THE WIND
AT LAST HERE AND NOW
WITH NO WHY OR HOW

I AM HERE AND THERE
ALL IS CLEAR AND FAIR

THE WHY AND THE HOW (Lyrics)

I-la-rI (Ilari I. Rantala) - Composed, all instruments, vocals, lyrics, field recordings & drum machine programming.
Artwork and produced by I-la-rI.

© 2021 Ilari I. Rantala. All rights reserved.

It Will End... (Part I)

Sweet Lemons

Not so much shanty as ranty...

Hark, the roar of the silenced boys
Filling the air with deafening noise
Hark, the cancelled women complain
Again and again and again and again

Random bores and media whores
Bravely fighting phantom wars
Bravely battling for billionaires
Brave generals in brave armchairs
Bravely signalling virtue-free
Peddling fantasy history
Bravely following the people’s clown
Saluting the flag hung upside down

Whistling warriors call their pack
Lighting gas for the snark attack
Money makes the merry-go-round
Sell fake England by the pound

Brave Trombone by Jonathan Ogara (https://soundcloud.com/allopenelectrics)

Whistling Warriors

The Siren

The magnetic tape on my VHS is degraded, It's hard to fix the tracking. 

Office 90

Dues and Dontts just want to get ahead with my musical ears. Blessed to all artists out there that’s bringing love and great vibes to SC CLOUD community. You all are very talented DJ’s it keeping it real. Jah is great!

Throw away the bed #scfirst

Project I-la-rI is a one-man experimental music project from Turku, Finland. The tunes are all original pieces composed by Ilari I. Rantala. The project began in 2015.

Hello my friends and welcome to my cloud! I play all the instruments in my music (unless noted otherwise in the song), sing, write the lyrics and deal with the aftermath myself. The tracks are recorded and produced with minimal equipment in my home, other places that are qualified as homes and in the field with a portable recorder. 

Enjoy the sounds!

Music, lyrics & artwork ©Ilari I. Rantala
Other artwork & logo ©Niklas Rantala

The links below lead to the SC pages of the different bands I currently play in/contribute to. Check it out!