2010
Label: Dogtoire - DGTR 22080020 • Format: CD Album, Reissue, Remastered, Unofficial Release • Country: Russia • Genre: Rock • Style: Prog Rock

Dance of the Anthropoids Wishful Thinker Autograph Let the World Ramble On For America Captain Supernatural End Pembroke has written a suite about a chap called Henry. There's a strong Beatles influence, and if the whole suite was as good as its best parts, it would be great, but the interest disappears here and there. The second album was a foolish attempt to reach wider audience abroad.

The highligt is Gustavson's deeply emotional closer, 'End'. But the album is 633 Jesu Fåglar - Wigwam (3) - Hard N Horny (CD of weak material, some of it actually quite irritating. One can always use the skip button You must be a forum member to post a review, please Album) here if you are not. Copyright Prog Archives, All rights reserved.

Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker. The suite on the second sidedescribing Harry's adventures and misgivings could've been a major work if Gustavson and Pembroke were to find a middle ground something that they will never really manage while they were both in Wigwam even though you can hear them collaborating in each other's composition The suite is clumsy but endearing if listened to with complacency.

Same can be said of the first side. Bassist Hulsdon will find himself ousted by much superior bassist Pohjola but will remain friendly with Pembroke co-writing some lyrics and will be responsible for the Sleeve artwork of two albums after Gustavson and Pohjola left.

Somehow a very naive but worthy and enjoyable first effort. If you collect vinyl seriously, you may wish to try hunt down the first pressings of "Hard'n'Horny", numbered only in of copies surviving number may be Album) today? Their record company Love Records didn't have enough money to press the album jackets, as all their available money went to the underestimated studio recording fees of this album! As the solution, band members had to draw personally all the needed covers on freehand.

They are not very neat, but at least each copy unique. It would be a nice a project to make a website, presenting pictures of verified copies of these different covers. I don't understand what's the rationale about giving a title to something with a duration of 8 seconds, so let's forget it. This debut is jazzy. I think to Caravan mainly. There's a similar instrumental on Waterloo Lily. I think that the cold athmospheres of songs like A Salty Dog fit well with a Finnish band.

Free jazz piano, drums and contrabass with two persons having a dialogue in Finnish, Album). It's where jazz meets psychedelia. Just a bit less eclectic than Ron Geesin. Respect to the British band the vocalist has a voice similar to Roger Chapman so the result is a nice but very dated psychedelic mix.

Surely one of the best things of this album even if not the most original, either with the clavinet in the final. Mountain Range Or Thereabouts" starts over the last clavinet notes of the previous song. A contrabass and various percussions put the listener back to the dark and acid world of cold jazz until the song turns to folky.

I hear echoes of Pentangle as the melody is folky, but it's the contrabass and the rhythmic section in general that sounds like Terry Cox and co. This is particularily bad when you copy it on an mp3 reader. Whoever like this genre will like it. Since now it's a sequel of 2 Album) short songs.

Ghastly And Diabolical Mistakes" is beatlesian with a bit of jazz in the piano solo; " Cancelled Holiday Planes" is deep in the 60s Moody Bluesas well as " Concentration Camp Brochure" nice title and " Ears, Eyes, Girlfriends And Feet", its follow-ups.

Milk Round In The Morning". In the end is an interesting document of its age, made more interesting by the fact that the band is not British, but surely it's not essential. Good enough, anyway. HARD N' HORNY is a testament to just how brilliant the band was before Pekka Pohjola joined the group and quite the surprise for the listener as one track after another is top notch late 60s psychedelic pop rock that delivers strong hooks, heavy doses of groovy freakiness and stellar musical and vocal performances.

In fact, at this point WIGWAM was certainly Finland's answer to The Beatles' "Sgt Pepper" days excellently heard on the second side of the album that incorporates a stream of tracks that connect musically and lyrically beginning with "Henry's? Mountain Range Or Thereabouts. It begins with the Finnish lyric tracks in a clearly psychedelic and jam band mode with a lazy and chilled bass and drum groove with some swinging 60s organ runs and becomes trapper on the next couple of tracks reminding me a bit of Procol Harum only with a different vocal delivery which in my favorite Finno-Ugric language makes it sound even trippier as the Finnish language has a strange rhythmic flow i'm not accustomed to.

As strange as this track is, it does display the strong piano playing skills of Jukka Gustavson as the backbone of the song structures on Album). The next few tracks are well-crafted psychedelic pop rock tunes that offer strong melodies, pseudo-classical keyboard parts and mid tempo 60s feeling songwriting with slight touches of progressive behavior meaning a few time sig changes here and there and some slight syncopation and jazzy type of structures.

Beginning with "Henry's? Mountain Range Or Thereabouts" it begins to feel like a totally different album which takes on a Beatelesque "Sgt Pepper's" flair although more rooted in a psychedelic Pink Floydian type of space rock. The lyrics are surprisingly very good and one could hardly detect that these guys were Finnish although that may have something to do with Jim Pembroke being an English speaker from the UK.

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