- Performer: Wigwam
- Title: Dark Album
- Genre: Rock
- Cat #: LRLP 227
- Label: Love Records
- Country: Finland
- Date of release: 1977
- Style: Prog Rock, Pop Rock
- FLAC size 1758 mb
- MP3 size: 2677 mb
- Record From Vinyl, LP, Album
Tracklist
| 1 | Cheap Evening ReturnComposed By – Pekka RechardtLyrics By – Jim Pembroke | 5:30 |
| 2 | The Silver JubileeComposed By – Jim PembrokeLyrics By – Gerard Manley Hopkins | 3:05 |
| 3 | The Vegetable RumbleComposed By – Pekka RechardtLyrics By – Jim Pembroke | 4:58 |
| 4 | Horace's Aborted Rip-Off SchemeComposed By – Pekka RechardtLyrics By – Jim Pembroke | 4:06 |
| 5 | Oh Marlene!Written-By – Jim Pembroke | 4:50 |
| 6 | Helsinki NightsWritten-By – Jim Pembroke | 3:57 |
| 7 | The Item Is The TotemComposed By – Pekka RechardtLyrics By – Mats Huldén | 4:50 |
| 8 | The Big FarewellComposed By – Pekka RechardtLyrics By – Jim Pembroke | 6:24 |
Credits
- Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar – Pekka Rechardt
- Arranged By, Producer – Wigwam
- Backing Vocals – Timo Kojo (tracks: 1.1, 1.8), Pave Maijanen (tracks: 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.8, 2.3)
- Bass – Måns Groundstroem
- Cover, Photography By – Timo Kelaranta
- Drums – Ronnie Österberg
- Keyboards, Accordion – Pedro "Hessu" Hietanen (tracks: 1.2, 1.5-1.7, 2.1-2.6)
- Mastered By – Pauli Saastamoinen
- Organ – Jukka Gustavsson (tracks: 1.1, 1.4)
- Recorded By – Erkki Hyvönen (tracks: 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.8), Mick Glossop (tracks: 1.2, 1.5-1.7, 2.1-2.6), Wigwam (tracks: 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.8)
- Reissue Producer – Jaakko Riihimaa, Svart Records
- Vocals, Grand Piano, Electric Piano – Jim Pembroke
- Arranged By – Wigwam
- Backing Vocals – Timo Kojo (tracks: A1), Pave Maijanen (tracks: A1, A2, A4, B4)
- Bass – Måns Groundstroem
- Cover – Timo Kelaranta
- Drums – Ronnie Österberg
- Engineer – Mick Glossop, Wigwam
- Guitar – Pekka Rechardt
- Keyboards – Hessu Hietanen (tracks: A2, B1-B3)
- Mastered By [Cut By] – Rauno Liukkonen
- Organ – Jukka Gustavsson (tracks: A1, A4)
- Vocals, Piano – Jim Pembroke
Notes
Wigwam 50th Anniversary Series
This deluxe edition of Wigwam’s Dark Album features the original album on the first disc and the early, rejected version on the second, never before released in full. With extensive liner notes and interviews.Some covers with lamination, some without it. Includes an inner sleeve with lyrics.
Recorded at Finnlevy and Love studios Winter-Summer 1977.
Engineered at Finnlevy by Mick Glossop and at Love Studio by Wigwam.
Remixed at Love Studio.
Barcodes
- Barcode (Scanned): 6430065585213
- Matrix / Runout (CD1): 1708913207 Monotype Pressing
- Mastering SID Code (CD1): IFPI LT 58
- Matrix / Runout (CD2): 1708913307 Monotype Pressing
- Mastering SID Code (CD2): IFPI LT 57
- Rights Society: n©b/TEOSTO
- Matrix / Runout (Side 1, stamped, Variant 1): LRLP-227-A III SGI
- Matrix / Runout (Side 2, stamped, Variant 1): LRLP-227 B III SGI
- Matrix / Runout (Side 1, stamped, Variant 2): LRLP-227-A2 SGI
- Matrix / Runout (Side 2, stamped, Variant 2): LRLP-227-B2 SGI
Companies
- Record Company – Love Records
- Phonographic Copyright (p) – Love Records
- Copyright (c) – Love Kustannus Oy
- Recorded At – Finnlevy Studios
- Recorded At – Love Studio
- Engineered At – Finnlevy Studios
- Engineered At – Love Studio
- Remixed At – Love Studio
- Manufactured By – AB Svensk Grammofonindustri
- Designed At – Saftra
- Printed By – Painomestarit Oy
- Copyright (c) – Svart Records
- Recorded At – Finnlevy Studios
- Recorded At – Love Studio
- Recorded At – Takomo Studiot
- Remixed At – Love Studio
- Licensed From – Universal Music Finland
- Mastered At – Finnvox
- Manufactured By – Monotype Pressing
- Pressed By – wmfono