2CD Gatefold wallet + booklet. Remastered and re-appraised 31-track collection of Pearls Before Swine rarities from the private tape collection of the late, great Tom Rapp. Also available as an expanded 45 track double CD collection. For the first time on vinyl, this beautiful collection brings together alternate versions of Rapp originals ‘The Jeweler’, ‘Translucent Carriages’ and ‘Rocket Man’. It also includes jaw-dropping covers of Rapp’s contemporaries Cohen, Dylan and Joni Mitchell, with bonus download material featuring seven amazing live versions plus a never before released intimate show at The Other End circa 1976. A goldmine of possibilities from a prospector with a silver tongue and stories to tell. ‘The Wizard Of Is’ is a weird and wonderful trip inside its creator’s mind, from sonnets and space hymns to stories of revolution and the war. It’s an American Gothic fantasy that straddles old tyme America and the outer edges of an imagined stratosphere.
“Extremely influential.” - Rolling Stone
“A more intoxicating version of folk psychedelia.” - Wire magazine
“Shimmering folk hymns.” - Spin magazine
“Unabashedly poetic.” - Crawdaddy
Disc: 1
1 Where Is Love
2 Butterflies
3 Love, You Are Not Alone
4 Grace Street
5 Translucent Carriages
6 Space
7 Rocket Man
8 City of Gold
9 For Free
10 Wizard of Is
11 Riegal
12 Sail Away
13 Footnote/When the War Began
14 Translucent Carriages
15 Island Lady
16 Morning Song
17 Marshall
18 Ballad to an Amber Lady/I Saw the World
19 Prayers of Action/Candle
20 Rocket Man
Disc: 2
1 Everybody's Got Pain
2 Crawling Towards Bethlehem
3 Going to the City
4 Can't Go Back
5 Prisoner of War
6 Another Time
7 If You Don't Want To (I Don't Mind)
8 (Oh Dear) Miss Morse
9 The Jeweler
10 The Lincoln Dream
11 There's No Other (Like My Baby)
12 Roadside Hotel
13 Song About a Rose
14 Mary Mary
15 Crewman
16 Suzanne
17 Oh Sister
18 Full Fathom Five/I Shall Not Care
19 Frog in the Window
20 There Was a Man
21 The Jeweler
22 Another Time
23 Every Change Is a Release
24 Rocket Man
25 Love/sex