Black Records will be released in July Hurriganesin two full gigs in vinyl and CD boxes in July 2021. It’s a 39-track journey to a time when “Ganes” was furious, primitive and hungry – and alive in front of an audience before its breakthrough.
The ensembles of four vinyl records or three CDs are also interesting documents from the 1973 debut album. Rock’n’roll All Night Long birth, as the recordings did Love Records employed Måns “Mosse” Groundstroem. Of Mossen’s tapes, Klaukkala’s gig from June 1973 ended up on his debut album, and previous recordings that are now being released were left out. The tapes that have been dusted for decades in record companies’ stores are now finally being released as a whole – in the past, only some of them have seen the light of day on the record Live in Hamina (2011).
Producer Groundstroem had already discovered the band’s musical and possibly also commercial potential in the past. He had made a bold statement to Musaa, the most prestigious music magazine in our country: “At first, we are trying to get the right record with Remu & Hurriganes.” Groundstroem received a budget of FIM 5,000 from the record company. He used it judiciously and was chosen as the recording equipment Revox-turned, Matti Sarapaltion built six-channel mixer, six old Shuren microphone, stands for them and the necessary cables.
Some of the gigs of the workers’ houses in Hamina (March 21, 1973) and Helsinki (March 24, 1973) found in the box have been heard before. Live In Hamina album, but the soon-to-be-released sequel will finally feature both gigs completely. To make listening more enjoyable, the intervals between the songs have been slightly edited shorter and small recording errors as well as guitar tunings have been snapped away. Helsinki and Hamina All Night Long contains early versions of later released classics (Roadrunner, Slippin’ And Slidin’), great loan songs, and a handful of previously unreleased songs.
Hamina and Helsinki All Night Long’s photographic material dates from this era. Photographer Risto Vuorimies went with the band and captured the mood with his camera both in Hamina and in the heat of Helsinki concerts. “Hamina’s pictures are mostly playing pictures, just a few shots of the back room or the interval when Pelle Miljoona, sorry young Petri Tiili, excited to pose in front of the prize cabinet. He was also spectacular on his back at the edge of the stage when the band forged their program, ”Vuorimies recalls.
Hurriganes – Hamina and Helsinki All Night Long appears on July 2, 2021 and the whole is crowned by a Ganes sage Honey Aaltonen accompanying texts and Risto Vuorimiehi’s picture cavalcade. Packages of four LPs and three CDs are on pre-sale in the Svart Records online store as well as with expert resellers right now.
Hamina And Helsinki All Night Long – Live 1973
Remu Aaltonen: Drums and vocals
Cisse Häkkinen: Bass and vocals
Albert Järvinen: Guitar
Hamina 3/21/1973
The first set
A1. Keep On Knocking
A2. Satur’ly Night Club
A3. My Sweet Lily
A4. Sweet Little Sixteen
A5. Hootenanny Fix
B1. Hideaway
B2. Wank-a-Wana
B3. Ruby Baby
B4. Hey Mr. Fancy
B5. Hear Me Calling
Hamina 3/21/1973
Second and third set
C1. Rudy-o-Rudy
C2. Roadrunner
C3. Sweet Sue
C4. Be-Bop-a-Lula
C5. Slippin’ and Slidin’ / Little Queenie
D1. Keep on Knocking
D2. Got No Time
D3. Blue Suede Shoes
D4. Lucille
Helsinki 24.3.1973
The first set
A1. Sweet Little Sixteen
A2. Ruby Baby
A3. Perfidia / Mr. Big
A4. Walk Don’t Run / Roy on Flash Top / Jenka / Wank-a-Wana / Jenka
B1. Hideaway
B2. Slippin’ and Slidin’ / Little Queenie
B3. Sweet Sue
B4. Be-Bop-a-Lula
B5. Hey Mr. Fancy
B6. Hear Me Calling
Helsinki 24.3.1973
Another set
C1. Keep on Knocking
C2. Got No Time
C3. Rudy-o-Rudy
C4. Satur’ly Night Club
C5. Sweet Lemonation / Wank-a-Wana
D1. Roadrunner
D2. Rock and Roll Music
D3. Keep on Knocking
D4. Blue Suede Shoes
D5. Sweet Little Sixteen
Äänitys: MÅNS GROUNDSTROEM / Love Records.
(Could be translated from Finnish)