hanger + shorai shorai (black vinyl + 7")

• 500 pieces limited edition (300 on black + 200 on transparent vinyl)

Deluxe collector's edition in a gatefold jacket, with a 16 page booklet, replicas of the original gig poster, plus the rare Shorai Shorai 7" single in its original picture sleeve and with the original promo vinyl sticker. With new liner notes by Hurriganes biographer Honey Aaltonen.

Hurriganes were undisputedly the most successful rock group in Finland in the 70's, but in many ways they also were the most important. The first six LPs, released by the unprejudiced Love Records, all brought the band gold records, and four of them went platinum. This success helped Love Records to finance many less commercially successful projects. When Love Records eventually ended up in financial trouble thanks to a string of uncommercial releases and went bankrupt in 1979, Hurriganes had already switched labels a year earlier to the more economically stable Scandia. It proved to be anything but an easy start.

Hanger shifted less units than most likely any other Hurriganes album (and is thus the most difficult to find as original pressing) - but also one of the band’s best. It was an open-minded, diverse and most of all rough album, which combined the defiance of 50’s rock’n’roll, the melodic sixties and the hard rock of the 70’s. The album also conatained the kind of twisted humor which was typical for the band’s early period but had been left aside during the most successful years. Hurriganes wanted to show they weren’t dependent on any past or future trend. However, in 1978 this was all too much for many a Finnish listener to handle. In Sweden, on the contrary, the album was put out on Sonet under the title Stranded In The Jungle, and it sold 13 000 copies in a week!

The Svart edition of Hanger also features the non-album single Shorai Shorai, recorded with a five-man lineup in 1979. It features Wigwam's Jim Pembroke on keyboards and jazz drummer Tommi Parkkonen behind the drum kit.

Track Listing

Bonus 7" Single