KALEVALA:People No Names/Boogie Jungle - Rare 2LP RE NM

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KALEVALA:People No Names/Boogie Jungle (Safir Finland 1990)

Very Rare 2LP Reissue of their 1972 debut masterpiece and of
their as good 2nd LP from 1975...

Here is your chance to own 2 great hard prog albums. If you like that heavy
progressive sound from the early '70's then Kalevala is a must! If your into
bands like November, The Human Instinct, Czar or The Old Man & The Sea
then your going to love this rare release. Alternatively trippy and progressive,
the addition of various guest members of Wigwam help to thicken the musical
stew and both albums will appeal to fans of Wigwam and Tasavallan Presidenti.
Great guitar and keyboard work throughout. This is a excellent sounding group
from Finland and released these albums in '72 & '75. Two albums in one double LP
issued in 1990 and long time deleted of the first two Kalevala albums from 1972 and
1975, respectively. Flared Finnish hard rock/prog extrapolation, somewhat infamous
for the album title Boogie Jungle ! "Kalevala was founded in 1969 by bassist Juha
'Lido' Salonen. The band's early line-up sported such would-be icons of no-nonsense
Finnish rock as guitarist Albert Jarvinen and drummer Remu Aaltonen, and that's
pretty much what their early material was, straight-ahead and aggressive guitar rock.
Some of the songs on People No Names are closer to psychedelic than progressive rock
in that they are still essentially grounded in the blues scale, especially during the vocal
sections, but feature some compositional sophistication beyond the scope of ordinary
rock music and long guitar solos over repetitive instrumental vamps. Boogie Jungle is
much more straight-forward an affair than the first one was: gritty '70's hard rock
with dual electric-guitars riffing and soloing over alternatively solid and vaguely funky
rhythm sections. The new vocalist, 'Limousine' Leppanen, has a stronger voice than his
predecessor and in fact reminds of Family's Roger Chapman, albeit without the monster
vibrato. The ballad 'If We Found the Time' has an intricate guitar arrangement with
layers of acoustic and electric slide, while 'Jungle' goes on a seven minute instrumental
jam with throbbing bass, drums and spacey synth whistles over which Kurkinen spreads
a smörgåsbord of Jan Ackerman influenced guitar work and finally concludes the song
on a rather anthemic note."

Once again one-of-a-kind rarity !!!

RECORD M-

GRADINGS:

Records are graded first,then covers
S/S = still sealed
M = mint , new or unplayed condition…cover is nice and new looking with no ring wear.
M- = near perfect copy, played only a few times.
EX = only slight signs of wear; very clean, only light surface marks which will not distract
        significantly from the sound…sleeve also has only slight wear, and is still in nice
        collectible.
VG++ = played often with moderate surface wear and some moderate noise, still plays well…
        sleeve may have medium overall wear or some ring wear.
VG+ = overall wear, but no skips of serious defects, more noisy sound during quiet passages…
        sleeve is well worn, usually with considerable ring wear.
VG = plays a lot, heavy wear on record and cover…guarantee does not apply to vg- or worse
        condition records.
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