Hawash!
Studio album by Jaakko Löytty
Released	1984 (LP), 2003 (CD)
Recorded	Studio JJ, Tampere, 1984
Genre	gospel, reggae
Length	41:42
Label	just records, (2003, fg-naxos)
Producer	Ippe Kätkä
Jaakko Löytty chronology
Laulu yhteisestä leivästä (1984) Hawash! (1984) Sinisen syvyys (1987)

Hawash! is a 1984 album by Finnish gospel musician Jaakko Löytty. It is his first album with clear African influences.

The title song was inspired by the Oromo musician Ali Mohammed Birra, whom Löytty met in 1976 during the Etiopiasafari tour. He met Birra in an Addis Abeba nightclub and bought his LP, which included a song about the River Hawash. Löytty wrote down a translation of the lyrics of the song on the inner sleeve of the album. This song later inspired him to write a song of the same name, the title song of this album.

• All words and music by Jaakko Löytty, arrangements by Jaakko Löytty and Ippe Kätkä.

Side one

Side two

• Jaakko Löytty — vocals, acoustic guitar
• Mikko Löytty — bass
• Sakari Löytty — drums, percussion
• Ippe Kätkä — drums, percussion
• Heikki Silvennoinen — guitars
• Jouko Laivuori — keyboards

• Taru Hallama — vocals
• Pave Maijanen — vocals
• Lucjan Czaplicki — saxophone
• Andrej Nowak — trumpet
• Jimmy Amupala — spoken word

• Ippe Kätkä — producer, recording engineer, mixing
• Heikki Silvennoinen — recording engineer, mixing
• Jaakko Löytty, Tuomo Manninen, cover
• John Muafangejo, cover woodcut

• Hawash! in Discogs