Wolf City

Artist: Amon Duul II
Label: Repertoire
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4009910498729
ASIN: B00006BCHS

Release Date: 2002-07-09

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Tracks:

Surounded By The Stars
Green-Bubble-Raincoated-Man
Jail-House-Frog
Wolf City
Wie Der Wind Am Ende Einer Starasse
Deutsch Nepal
Sleepwalkers Timeless Bridge

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Yeti

Customer Reviews:

World's Greatest Album.......2007-01-05

I've been listening to Wolf City since the 70's. I bought it when it first came out. This is the best most psychedelic album ever made. The only other album that can equal Wolf City is the Rolling Stones Their Satanic Majesties Request.

scared me, pushed me further into awareness.......2006-07-28

aamon duul II's WOLF CITY album pushed me along,sort of, towards an awakening. for me, it reminds me--and moreso than just in the similarity of the titles-- of the uncanny quality of awareness pervading Hesse's Steppenwolf story. Somehow, Duul pushes the limits of knowing, by way of their mind-renovationsoundseamlessly

The Greatest Unheard Music.......2006-07-07

I am saddened that it took me 30+ years to find and then another year to fully appreciate this recording. I initially bought it because I had heard "The Sleepwalker's Timeless Bridge," but then I was woefully prepared for the rest of the collection. My opinion is thus: If you allow it, this album will grow on you like a beast onto it's prey. Give it a chance - if you like early 70's prog or psychedelia, you'll love it.

Another high-point for Amon Duul II.......2006-04-24

By 1972, Amon Duul II was starting to record more accessible, song-based material, probably in the hopes of selling more copies, as Carnival in Babylon demonstrated. Later the same year comes Wolf City, which improves on everything they did on their previous album, including bringing back some of the experiments found on early albums, while sticking to this new shorter time constraint. Falk U. Rogner had returned for this album and he started to include synthesizers, which I thought was a welcomed addition to the band's sound, and Jimmy Jackson was back with the choir organ (sounds like a Mellotron choir, but apparently holds those chords indefinately, unlike the Mellotron). Renate Knaupe has her time to shine on "Surrounded by the Stars" and "Green-Bubble-Raincoated-Man". The former has a strong, early Pink Floyd-like feel, but it's full of strange electronic effects and cool analog synth sounds. "Green-Bubble-Raincoated-Man" is a bit more on the pop-oriented side, but without forsaking the psychedelic sound. "Jail-House-Frog" is an example of the band bringing back some of their early experiments, especially the second half, with the piano, choir organ, and strange sound effects. The title track is a more aggressive rocker, while "Wie der Wind am Ende Einer Strasse", despite the German title, has a strong Indian feel to it, complete with sitar and tabla, and some really interesting use of synthesizer. "Deutsch Nepal" is more rocking, with vocals in German. The last song, "Sleepwalker's Timeless Bridge" starts off not sounding too far removed from Carnival in Babylon, but then it ends up reminding me of Gong, especially because the male vocalist here reminds me of Daevid Allen.

What certainly can't be denied here is the band is more solid than ever before. It's a must-have album, my only complaint is it's too short (something you can't say of Tanz der Lemminge or Yeti).

An emphasis on shorter pieces and glorious melodies.......2006-01-04

The most noticeable difference between this 1972 release and classic albums like Phallus Dei (1969), Yeti (1970), and Tanz der Lemminge (1971) is the shift from lengthy "freak outs" to shorter pieces that emphasize melody and harmony. In fact, most of the seven pieces on Wolf City are in the 3-6 minute range with only Surrounded by Stars reaching 8 minutes in length. I for one do not mind the change at all because it turns out that Amon Duul II was just as good at writing shorter pieces as they were at writing the longer pieces. The major selling point for me on Wolf City is the haunting, drifting melodies that are developed on this album - they are simply wonderful and make me forget the pieces are only a few minutes long. Furthermore, the interesting thing (and this is really clever) is that spacey, instrumental preludes and interludes are worked in here and there to create the illusion of a larger piece. The use of loads of synthesizers does not hurt either. All in all, this is a very good album that is recommended along with Carnival in Babylon (1972) which is somewhat similar.

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