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Tracks

Listen Download 1	Percussion Hammer	Add to Add to Favorites Create a playlist Share Share with friends Share on Facebook Post in Twitter Send by email	5:17	2086 listens
Listen Download 2	Relief	Add to Add to Favorites Create a playlist Share Share with friends Share on Facebook Post in Twitter Send by email	5:13	1226 listens
Listen Download 3	Drive	Add to Add to Favorites Create a playlist Share Share with friends Share on Facebook Post in Twitter Send by email	5:30	1037 listens
Listen Download 4	Soft Edges (including "A Lullaby for Eternal Lie")	Add to Add to Favorites Create a playlist Share Share with friends Share on Facebook Post in Twitter Send by email	6:30	1185 listens
Listen Download 5	Sometimes Magic	Add to Add to Favorites Create a playlist Share Share with friends Share on Facebook Post in Twitter Send by email	5:11	775 listens
Listen Download 6	Shapes of Gray	Add to Add to Favorites Create a playlist Share Share with friends Share on Facebook Post in Twitter Send by email	2:01	655 listens
Listen Download 7	Best Possible Weather	Add to Add to Favorites Create a playlist Share Share with friends Share on Facebook Post in Twitter Send by email	1:25	950 listens
Listen Download 8	Crimson Construction, Pt. 1 Pigs are Red and Violets are Blue	Add to Add to Favorites Create a playlist Share Share with friends Share on Facebook Post in Twitter Send by email	2:56	642 listens
Listen Download 9	Crimson Construction, Pt. 2 The Fantastic Journey of Hadrianus Blue	Add to Add to Favorites Create a playlist Share Share with friends Share on Facebook Post in Twitter Send by email	3:04	822 listens

About this album

Updated: 27/02/2008

Exit phase one

It took us about 5 months to get from the first recording sessions to the final master, but it was well worth it! I am pleased to say that we all are extremely proud of Best Possible Weather. I feel we reached what we aimed for, and then some. And that said, I feel this in a way is an end of an era. I think our working method is one thing to change. The music will change, it's bound to. When and where these changes will come into daylight, who knows. It might be sooner and closer than we could imagine. But enough about the murky future. Let's take a look at the present.

In a way Best Possible Weather is a tribute to all the bands that has influenced us. To bands that without Margin of Safety would not exist. We started of with a bunch of prog rock tracks and by serendipity ended up with an album that not only is a collection of songs, but an album with continuity.

But the album has a statement that is not written in the lyrics

[entering rant mode]

In the era of the vinyl LP, the length of an album was something between 30 to 45 minutes of music split on two sides. Thats an exellent length considering the average attention span of a modern human. These days almost every new CD produced contains +-70 minutes of music. That's a double LP. No wonder the the quality of commercial music has dropped. Half of the songs on a CD are pure fillers to satisfy an overindulged audience who wants quantity, not quality. And make it easily digestable, please.

Another ugly fact of commercially prodused music: It's over produced and lacks dynamics and feeling. I've seen comments from producers saying that an album will sound weak compared to others if it's not compressed to the very limit. That is bull shit. You take any modern loud album and try to crank the volume up, and your ears will bleed. Please don't believe the hype and don't get caught in the loudness war. Try to listen to our album at a high volume and you'll see what I mean. The sound only gets better and your ears won't get tired. Well, not as soon anyway :)

[exit rant mode]

Enough banter. Enjoy the album and review it.

Credits:

The band:

Mika Hiironniemi - drums, percussions, keyboards & synths
Petri Koivistoinen - electric and acoustic bass guitar, acoustic lead guitar on Percussion Hammer and Shapes of Gray
Jari Schroderus - electric and acoustic guitars, vocals, keyboards & synths and Tourette treatment on Crimson Construction, Pt 1

Featuring:

Charlie "Mr Xeima" Goodtime - spoken words on Crimson Construction, Pt 1
Nina Hiironniemi - vocals on A Lullaby for Eternal Lie section of Soft Edges
Jarno Laaksonen - violin on A Lullaby for Eternal Lie section of Soft Edges
Seppo Patteri - Bodhrán on A Lullaby for Eternal Lie section of Soft Edges

All music and arangements by Margin of Safety
except A Lullaby for Eternal Lie section of Soft Edges:
Violins aranged by Jarno Laaksonen
Vocals aranged by Nina Hiironniemi

All lyrics by Jari Schroderus
except for
Crimson Construction, Pt 1: Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue by Charlie "Mr Xeima" Goodtime

Front cover photo: Child in Shack Town by Dorothea Lange, 1936 (public domain, Library of congress)
Cover design and photo tinting by Jari Schroderus

Roland RE-201 Space Echo provided by Tommi Laine
Acoustic bass provided by Samuli Happo

Redcording and mixing by Mika Hiironniemi
Produced by Margin of Safety

The tracks of this album are published under a Creative Commons licence, check the licence associated to each track.

Reviews for "Best Possible Weather"

10 reviews

Buen disco pero...

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kchopein • 2008-03-02 09:44:51

Las canciones son bastante buenas y el sonido es mucho mejor que la media aquí, en Jamendo (ya sé que no todo el mundo puede permitirse 6 meses de grabación!). La pega, en mi opinión, está en la voz: no tiene calidez y suena demasiado en bruto. De todos modos es un gran disco, enhorabuena! Para mi es una sorpresa porque los otros discos de MOS que he escuchado son más en plan jamming (y men encantan) y no me esperaba un disco como este. Me encanta la portada! Muchísimas gracias por la música! The songs are quite good and the sound quality is much better than the average here in Jamendo (hey, I know not everybody can afford 6 months of recording!). The black spot, in my opinion, is the voice: it has no warmness, sounds too raw. Anyway, it's a great record, so congratulations!! It's surprise for me because the other MOS records I've listened to are more like jamming (I love those!) and didn't expect something like this. Great cover! Thanks a lot for the music!!

Its so great!

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Electro-Pete • 2008-11-13 09:14:54

Hi, thanks for your good music, i'm enjoy it very much! If you want, listen to my cd "hypno", maybe the first song is something for youß have fun! Rock on! Greetings from Electro-Pete

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troll 69 • 2008-02-27 19:17:01

Un bon album de progressive rock Une bonne synergie s'en dégage Thanks

Magnifique!! Plus que du Rock!

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Momoka • 2008-02-27 23:59:38

"Percussion Hammer" est absolument splendide! "Relief" suit avec un chanteur et une ligne mélodique superbe, du progressive Rock tellement bon....Voilà qui me réconcilie avec la vie! "Drive", des guitares douces, un bon chanteur, un bon tempo, bref: tout ce que j'aime! Morceau suivant: ça démarre en super blues (ça tombe bien, j'ai le blues)alors ça résonne en moi bien comme il faut...y aurait-il un brin de douceur dans ce monde cruel? oui la musique le dit....ce morceau est si beau! "Sometime Magic":oui pourquoi pas un moment de magie? morceau suivant: une ballade à la guitare , il n(y a plus qu'à se laisser porter... "Crimson construction Pl 1": à la fois graves et magiques (effets vocaux trés élaborés et superbes) Dernier morceau plus incisif, la guitare est géniale, Bravo vraiment!! Momoka

Dobry album

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stary bej • 2009-04-21 10:19:11

Muzyka z okolic Emerson, Like i Palmer, bardzo dobra płyta. Wokalista świetny głos. Szkoda że tak mało materiału, az się chce kolejny raz słuchać.

Pure brilliance!

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micheal ofinn • 2008-09-02 20:09:12

Get's better everytime when you listen it.

Good solid prog

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HunterJE • 2010-06-15 23:49:34

Capable progressive rock with good vocals and great energetic guitar riffs (Drive stands out). Getting some King Crimson in the overall sound, and thought that before noticing the apparent allusion in the naming of the final tracks. Altogether an enjoyable album. And agreed on the rant -- as a lover of albums every bit as much as of songs (which makes me feel more and more alone in this pick-and-choose iTunes generation), I lament the loss of the 40-minute album; I do think that's about the perfect length to be appreciated in a single sitting. Interestingly as I bum around Jamendo I notice that when set free of the requirement of filling a physical CD, most of the long-form albums here seem to gravitate towards that 40-45 minute mark, which gives me hope.

something like Red

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Grego Mondo • 2008-11-21 21:27:19

Sometimes the trio sounds like King Crimson's Red album. I like it, I like it !

Nice

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sChen • 2008-03-04 09:56:49

Vorstellung auf www.optique.de, www.ccnews.de und www.bobblespace.de: Best Possible Weather von Margin of Safety Heute mal etwas Rockiges ! Aber nicht so wie AC/DC - NEIN, eher wie die von mir hier schon genannten Posterchildren - wie nennt man das noch? Ich glaube Progressive-Rock wars. Echt, diese ganzen Aufsplitterungen nerven irgendwie, wenn man sich nicht ständig damit beschäftigt, kann man heutzutage die Musik gar nicht mehr richtig einordnen, oder werde ich alt? Egal mir geht es eh schon lange nicht mehr darum aus welcher Richtung Musik kommt, sondern ob sie mir gefällt oder nicht und “Best Possible Weather” von Margin of Safety aus Finnland gefällt mir sehr gut! Ok, kurz zur Musik, welche von richtig rockig bis verspult reicht, gerne auch mal etwas zäh ist wie Kaugummi und zwischendrin ist Flamenco angesagt mit einer rein akustischen Gitarre - aber nur als Intro. Nein, das ist echt eine virtuelle Scheibe, die in mir Erinnerungen an früher weckt, an den versifften Keller im Haus meiner Eltern, an die vielen Wein- und Wodka-Räusche und die vielen Partys. Schei wars - und so ist auch dieses Album. So das war jetzt viel blabla ohne wirklich etwas über die Musik zu sagen, aber egal ihr könnt sie euch ja wie immer selber anhören! Download!