Wigwam – Fairyport 4LP Deluxe Edition

Wigwam – Fairyport Deluxe Edition

LP deluxe edition with previously unreleased bonus material

We’re proud to present an extravagant 51st anniversary edition of Wigwam’s game-changing prog rock classic Fairyport. What began as a projected 50th anniversary release turned into a 51st due to the current manufacturing queues for vinyl.

To create the anniversary package we teamed up with Jukka Gustavson and went through a plethora of material. Gustavson hand-picked the best possible bonus materials.

The legendary jam Rave-up For The Roadies, featuring Jukka Tolonen, was located in its original 36 minute form. The truncated 17-minute version is the closing number of Fairyport, but here the full version received an entire LP.

Most original reels to Fairyport are lost, but we salvaged a few demo session tapes plus some eight track reels of the album’s work-in-progress stage. Four tracks were chosen by Gustavson to be added here. It should be noted that the two album session tracks feature the original violin parts, which were left off the final product. All material was mixed from the original reels by Risto Hemmi at Finnvox.

The box set also features a live LP. For this Gustavson picked material from a show the band played in Stockholm while working on the album’s demo sessions. There’s an earliest existing version of Losing Hold plus a 15-minute medley of several tracks. Also included is a 20-minute live set from the first ever Ruisrock in 1970, a couple of months before the band entered the studio. Here Wigwam perform three classics by The Band.

The vinyl box set is limited to 1000 copies. All material has been remastered at Finnvox by Pauli Saastamoinen in

Tracklist:
A1. LOSING HOLD (7:06)
A2. LOST WITHOUT A TRACE (2:31)
A3. FAIRYPORT (7:00)

B1. GRAY TRAITORS (2:55)
B2. CAFFFKAFF, THE COUNTRY PSYCHOLOGIST (5:21)
B3. MAY YOUR WILL BE DONE DEAR LORD (5:29)
B4. HOW TO MAKE IT BIG IN HOSPITAL (3:05)

C1. HOT MICE (3:20)
C2. P.K.’S SUPERMARKET (2:21)
C3. ONE MORE TRY (3:27)
C4. ROCKIN’ OL’ GALWAY (2:30)
C5. EVERY FOLD (3:11)

D1. P.K.’s SUPERMARKET [4-track demo] (2:24)
D2. FIRESIDE aka. EVERY FOLD [4-track demo] (3:13)
D3. EVERY FOLD [violin mix 2022] (3:05)
D4. ROCKING OL’ GALWAY [violin mix 2022] (2:31)

RUISROCK -70, TURKU, 22.08.1970 (YLE)
E1. THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN (3:58)
E2. Medley: UP ON CRIPPLE CREEK… (12:03)
E3. THE WEIGHT (5:50)

GYLLENE CIRKELN, STOCKHOLM, 16.12.1970 (SVERIGES RADIO)
F1. LOSING HOLD (6:36)
F2. Medley: A DAY IN THE LIFE… (14:21)

TAVASTIA CLUB, HELSINKI, 6.6.1971
G1. RAVE-UP FOR THE ROADIES – UNEDITED VERSION [Part 1] (18:45)

TAVASTIA CLUB, HELSINKI, 6.6.1971
H1. RAVE-UP FOR THE ROADIES / LAST NIGHT – UNEDITED VERSION [Part 2] (18:29)

Label: Svart Records
Released: 2022