Instrumental
International relevance: ***
There exist several unofficial (or semi official?) Rävjunk releases of indeterminate origin. Three albums appeared in 2002, ”Collage”, ”Never Played” and ”The Freaky Guitar Album”, with material recorded in the late 70s. ”Collage” is a compilation of their singles with previously unreleased bonus tracks (since then largely superseded by ”Uppsala Stadshotellbrinner igen”). ”Never Played” consists of tapes from 1976-1979, and appears to be a sister volume to ”The Freaky Guitar Album” covering the same period. It's quite possible, even likely, that Rävjunk themselves were behind those elusive discs.
Parts of what's on ”The Freaky Guitar
Album” sound very similar to what's on ”Uppsala Stadshotell brinner”, while some of it is available elsewhere as bonus tracks.
Even if Rävjunk's discography originally only extended to one full
length album and a handful of singles, it's a total mess of bonus
material, archival releases and what-not. There are a couple of
things here I don't immediately recognize from elsewhere, but most of
it appears to have been released in form or another since ”The
Freaky Guitar Album” was sneaked out.
Jamsession (Bogus, 2022; rec. 1970s)
Instrumental, Swedish vocals
International relevance: ***
This is only available for streaming on
platforms such as Spotify and Youtube, and it's a much more rewarding
and coherent outing than ”The Freaky Guitar Album”. It should be
mentioned that all of it is also available as bonus material on
Transubstans's digital reissue of ”Uppsala Stadshotell brinner”
along with a couple of songs not released on ”Jamsession”. The
sound is great with a bearable dip in quality only on the final 20+
minute track ”Naturbarn”. My guess is that most of it was
recorded on the same occasion, possibly during the sessions for
”Uppsala Stadshotell brinner”. All tracks are instrumental except
for a few (improvised?) lines in ”Tro på livet”. For those into
Rävjunk's jammy side, this is essential.
Live At Rackis, Uppsala, Sweden 1979 May 26 (Bogus, 2002; rec. 1979)
Swedish vocals, English vocals
International relevance: **
Another streaming-only release, this time representing Rävjunk's punkier side with four tracks recorded live at Rackarbergspuben (commonly referred to as Rackis) in the band's hometown Uppsala on 26th of May, 1979. The sound is generally good although the vocals sound a bit muffled. It's a short but tight and very inspired set including two songs not available elsewhere, the decent but not excellent ”Redneck” and a great, revved-up cover of Gudibrallan's ”Sprutan”. This is every bit as good as their singles, if not better. If you prefer this side of the band, this is something to check out.
One further track, a so called "raw version" of the track "Delerium" off "Uppsala Stadshotell brinner" was included on the V/A CD "Tänd mörkret", a compilation of experimental postpunk and fringe progg artists released in conjunction with an art exhibition in Gothenburg 2007.
The Freaky Guitar Album full album
Jamsession full album playlist
Live At Rackis 1979 full EP playlist
"Delirium (Raw version)" from "Tänd mörkret"
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