HARD N' HORNY

I will round off the rating to the upper unit for this album. Wigwam is one of the most important Finnish prog group historically speaking along with Helsinki's crosstown friendly rivals Tasavalan Presidentii. Like T P , Wigwam developped a very wide musical scope , almost as to show that they could do almost every style of music. I think that the bond between T P and Wigwam was mostly due to Londoner Jim Pembroke. Pembroke along with drummer Osterberg are the mainstays throughout all of Wigwam albums.

As you can read in other review the parting of the writing credits on two side shows the personnal musical difference between Pembroke (Acoustical and guitary) and Gustavson(definitely bluesy-jazz). There is some Procol influences but I think mostly of early Traffic - most notably the track Mr Fantasy both in the vocal delivery and in soulful KB lines (Winwood was very Motown influenced). The proghead will find it confusing to find Folk , jazzy-bluesy-rock , experimental (Gustavson's compsitions) all on one album but pasted on each other clumsily with more country music of Pembroke (the Band or Dylan-style). The suite on the second side , describing 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.

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