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Pekka Streng: Sisältäni portin löysin

Weekend Music

I’ve been too busy for some weeks now to post one of these; this one has been on my mental list for a while. My friend Anja pointed me to this song by Pekka Streng, a Finnish musician who died in 1975 at the age of 26. The title is something like “I found the gate within me,” and although I don’t have anything but a semi-intelligible Google automated translation of the lyrics, they seem to relate a mystical experience. Someone set it to a video he made while chasing a rainbow, and to me the combination of the music and the rainbow here says “gate of heaven.”

This is not the complete song; if you click through to YouTube, I think it will show you other vids which have the whole song.

Maclin Horton

7 responses to “Pekka Streng: Sisältäni portin löysin”

  1. Janet

    A double rainbow, no less.
    AMDG

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  2. Mac

    So it is. I hadn’t even noticed. The outer one is pretty faint but it’s there.

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  3. Janet

    I almost killed myself chasing a rainbow like that and trying to get a picture of it. When I first saw it, it was encircling Walmart, and if I could have gotten a great picture, but that just wasn’t what I wanted.
    AMDG

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  4. Janet

    Well, look what we saw tonight when we went out to dinner.
    http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=31324963&l=ddf17cfdb1&id=1413619572
    We could see the whole rainbow, but we couldn’t fit it into one picture.
    AMDG

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  5. Mac

    Cool. And it looks like you were being led to eat at Popeye’s.
    The WalMart picture might have been kind of cool, too.

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  6. Janet

    Well, we might have been being led to Popeye’s, but we ate Chinese.
    AMDG

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  7. Mac

    This could be your big financial break: a Popeye’s commercial–“Pop…eye’s….under the rainbow.” You might have some trouble getting permission to use the song, though.

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