Wigwam - Live At Töölönranta 1975 (2025) [Official Digital Download]

Wigwam was founded after the split of the seminal Blues Section, with whom drummer Ronnie Österberg had played before. He formed the band as a trio, but soon brought in British expatriate singer/songwriter Jim Pembroke (also in Blues Section) and organist Jukka Gustavson. A year later, Pekka Pohjola joined on bass. Kim Fowley produced Wigwam's second album Tombstone Valentine (1970). This album also featured an excerpt of Erkki Kurenniemi's electronic composition 'Dance of the Anthropoids'. The 1974 album Being is often called Wigwam's masterpiece. After its release, though, Pohjola and Gustavson quit the band. Commercially the most successful Wigwam album must be the more pop-oriented Nuclear Nightclub that followed in 1975, with new members Pekka Rechardt on guitar and Måns Groundstroem on bass. The album was recorded in Stockholm with better studios, and featured Esa Kotilainen, the Finnish equivalent of Rick Wakeman, on synthesizer. The effect of the synthesizer was to steer the group away from the organ and piano sound of Gustavson that dominated previous albums. The band from Nuclear Nightclub on had songwriters Pembroke and Rechardt often working together, and the two came to describe the style as "deep pop" instead of progressive rock.

TRACKLIST

1. Wigwam - A Better Hold (And A Little View) (Live At Töölönranta 1975)
2. Wigwam - Band Introduction (Live At Töölönranta 1975)
3. Wigwam - Do Or Die (Live At Töölönranta 1975)
4. Wigwam - Never Turn You In (Live At Töölönranta 1975)
5. Wigwam - Interview With Måns (Live At Töölönranta 1975)
6. Wigwam - Freddie Are You Ready (Live At Töölönranta 1975)
7. Wigwam - Simple Human Kindness (Live At Töölönranta 1975)
8. Wigwam - Bless Your Lucky Stars (Live At Töölönranta 1975)
9. Wigwam - No New Games To Play (Live At Töölönranta 1975)



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