Amon Duul – Wolf city – 1972

[Roland Bru]

Amon Duul is German prog. This might seem scary at first and you’re right. This is some scary music. The first song Surrounded by the stars sets the tone: industrial clanging guitars, a monotonous female voice that sounds slightly deformed and very scary violin sounds make this song something you don’t want to listen to by yourself in a large house on a dark, rainy night.

Unfortunately, it goes downhill from there: Green-bubble-raincoated-man is what happens when you leave that house at that time. A reassuring melody played menacingly. Jailhouse frog starts again threatening, but ends beautiful with a cascading piano motiove with some watery and birdlike sound effects. Great tune. Wie der wind am Ende einer Strasse is instrumental and kind of goes nowhere, but in a gentle way. It might have gone on for another ten minutes without getting to any destination: the travelling is the goal, my friend! The title song and Deutsch Nepal go back to threaten the listener and quite succeed. You deserve to listen this album once in your life...