Erlkoenig – Erlkoenig (1973)
Erlkoenig - Erlkoenig 1973
Interesting krautrock album with organ and keyboards dominating most compositions. All these organs and keyboards coupled with melodramatic vocals give this album somewhat disturbing and dark melancholy feel.
Entire album has has very underground and low key feel to it. There is a lot of reverb on vocals, but there is not a lot of these here as it’s mostly an instrument album. Entire recoding gives a sense of an organic, almost live in studio, performance with very spacious sound with fairly good stereo image. Guitars play off the keyboards and organ very nicely especially on longer tracks like Thoughts. Although very well played overall, special mention must be made of superb and varied keyboard work by Eckhardt Freynik. Bonus tracks on GoD CD are OK but not as good as the album.
If you like your prog raw sounding with a LOT of dynamic keyboard/organ work get this one.
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