1 	Dance Of Temptations 	4:49
2 	The Fairest One Of All 	5:32
3 	The Promise Broken 	5:24
4 	Leaving For War 	3:53
5 	In The Northland 	3:38
6 	In Three Tasks 	3:16
8 	The Deat Of Lemminkäinen 	3:45
9 	Mother Searching 	5:05
10 	Goddess Of Light 	1:51
11 	Return To Life 	3:52

Bass – Pekka Sarmanto
Conductor – Heikki Sarmanto
Drums, Percussion – Esko Rosnell
Guitar – Otto Berger
Piano, Electric Piano – Heikki Sarmanto
Reeds – Eero Koivistoinen, Juhani Aaltonen, Pentti Lahti, Pertii Päivinen, Teemu Salminen
Trombone – Juhani Aalto, Mikael Långbacka, Mircea Stan, Pekka Laukkanen
Trumpet – Esko Heikkinen, Heikki Haimila, Jörgen Petersen, Simo Salminen, Timo Paasonen 

Heikki Sarmanto b. 22 June 1939, Helsinki, Finland. Sarmanto studied languages and music at Helsinki University and Sibelius Academy before going on to the Berklee College Of Music (1968-71). He was named the best pianist at Montreux in 1971. He led his own bands from 1962 and in 1976 a workshop group he ran became the big band UMO. He has written New Hope Jazz Mass, a jazz ballet and a jazz opera, and was chosen by saxophonist Sonny Rollins to arrange and orchestrate his Saxophone Concerto (1986). He continues to write vocal, orchestral and theatre works in a most assured style. ---allmusic.com

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01. Azure Skies (Lance Gunderson) - 6:57
02. Jai Guru Dev - 7:05
03. Counterbalance - 9:04
04. Moonflower - 8:03
05. Seagull - 6:11
06. Wolf - 4:33

Personnel:
- Heikki Sarmanto - Fender Rhodes (electric piano)
- Juhani Aaltonen - flute
- Lance Gunderson - guitar
- Pekka Sarmanto - bass	
- Craig Herndon – drums

Heikki Sarmanto, born 22 June 1939, Helsinki, Finland. Sarmanto studied languages and music at Helsinki University and Sibelius Academy before going on to the Berklee College Of Music (1968-71). He was named the best pianist at Montreux in 1971. He led his own bands from 1962 and in 1976 a workshop group he ran became the big band UMO. He has written New Hope Jazz Mass, a jazz ballet and a jazz opera, and was chosen by saxophonist Sonny Rollins to arrange and orchestrate his Saxophone Concerto (1986). He continues to write vocal, orchestral and theatre works in a most assured style.

Heikki Sarmanto is something of a legend in Scandinavia but not (yet) well known in the USA. The belated American release of COUNTERBALANCE may change that, as it features a warm, harmonious fusion of jazz, rock, and elements of Finnish folk music, using both electric and acoustic instrumentation. Before ECM Records, before the concept of world music, before fusion became a popular concept, Sarmanto was there, with an approach both user-friendly and forward-looking. ---Rovi

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