B The Magpie

B The Magpie
Studio album by Pekka Pohjola
Released	1975
Studio	Marcus Music
Length	36:50
Label	Virgin
Producer	Måns Groundstroem
Pekka Pohjola chronology
Resin Eye Bark Ear  [ fi ] (1972) B The Magpie (1975) The Mathematician's Air Display (1977)

B The Magpie is the second studio album by Pekka Pohjola which was released in the UK in 1975 by Virgin Records. ^[1] It was originally released in Finland in 1974 as Harakka Bialoipokku (Harakka the Magpie) by Love Records, and there was a further release in Sweden in 1978 under the title Skatan, also by Love Records. ^[2]

American record producer DJ Shadow sampled the beginning piano riff from The Madness Subsides in his song "Midnight in a Perfect World" from the album Endtroducing..... . ^[3]

Track listing

A-side

1. The Beginning (2:11)
2. The First Morning (5:31)
3. Bad Weather - Bialoipokku Dances (6:49)
4. Bialoipokku's War Dream (4:32)

B-side

5. Bialoipokku's War (5:42)
6. The Madness Subsides (4:17)
7. Life Goes On (7:47)

Personnel

• Pekka Pöyry — alto saxophone (1-4, 7), soprano saxophone (1-5)
• Paroni Paakkunainen  [ fi ] — baritone saxophone (1-5, 7), alto saxophone (1-4), piccolo (1-4)
• Pekka Pohjola — bass, piano (1-5, 7)
• Tomi Parkkonen  [ fi ] — drums/percussion (1-4)
• Eero Koivistoinen — soprano & sopranino saxophone (1-4), tenor saxophone (1-5, 7)

Producers

• Pekka Pohjola — composing and arranging
• Stan Shingler  [ fi ] — cover art
• Måns Groundstroem - producer

References

1. Pekka Pohjola - B The Magpie, 1975, retrieved 2025-02-08
2. Pekka Pohjola - Skatan / Harakka Bialoipokku, 1978, retrieved 2025-02-08
3. Endtroducing... (liner notes). DJ Shadow (deluxe ed.). Island Records. 1996. 0602498286821.