Wigwam - Fairyport - Deluxe Edition [4 x 12" Vinyl]

Format: 4 x 12" Vinyl
Catalogue No.: SRE657LP
Barcode: 6430080231171
Release Date: 30 Sep 2022
Genre: Progressive

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 2022.

Tracklisting
Disc: 1
1. Losing Hold
2. Gray Traitors
3. Lost Without A Trace
4. Cafffkaff, the Country Psychologist
5. May Your Will be Done, Dear Lord
6. Fairyport
7. How To Make It Big In Hospital Disc: 2
1. P.K.'s Supermarket (4-track demo)
2. Hot Mice
3. P.K.'s Supermarket
4. Fireside aka Every Fold (4-track demo)
5. One More Try
6. Every Fold (Violin mix)
7. Rockin' Ol' Galway (Violin mix)
8. Rockin' Ol' Galway
9. Every Fold
Disc: 3
1. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Live Ruisrock 1970)
2. Losing Hold (Live on Swedish Radio)
3. Medley: Up On Cripple Creek...(Live Ruisrock 1970)
4. Medley: A Day In The Life... (Live on Swedish Radio)
5. The Weight (Live Ruisrock 1970)
Disc: 4
1. Rave-Up For The Roadies (Unedited Version) part 2
2. Rave-Up For The Roadies (Unedited Version) part 1

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