Although they never ceased being brilliant, WIGWAM‘s desire to simultaneously embrace zeitgeist and success saw the Finnish ensemble gradually shift their creative paradigm from performance to song. There were a couple of line-up changes on 1974’s "Nuclear Nightclub" – the band’s first album without the legendary Pekka Pohjola, who’d played with them for five years – and 1976’s "The Lucky Golden Stripes And Starpose" brought about even more replacements. And while ‘Live Music from the Twilight Zone” marked the end of the group’s classic era for many fans, aficionados could only wonder how the collective sounded afterwards, with their next concert platter seeing the light of day two decades later, and even their archival releases didn’t venture into the second half of the ’70s. Until now.
