Erlkonig

Erlkonig is another obscure Krautrock music group in the mid-’70s, a lot more obscure than numerous others, that only released a single self-titled record. Their undertake symphonic rock and roll, fronted by electric guitar and keyboards, was incredibly lively and effective, coupled with that regular Krautrock angst. The group produced in early 1972 in Helmstedt, a city that at that time sat in the boundary between East and Western world Germany. Three from the associates — keyboardist Eckhardt Freynik, drummer Michael Brandes, and bass participant Gunter Armbrecht — had been in Paradise on the planet, an organization that performed a more supple, mellower symphonic intensifying rock and roll. When guitarist Friedrich Kruger became a member of the group, they renamed themselves Erlkonig, a name extracted from a well-known but mistranslated Goethe poem, and that was meant to catch the heart of an organization with the capacity of many feeling adjustments and dynamics within their music. With Klaus Koch as their business supervisor and promoter, Erlkonig in some way amassed 20,000 dollars well worth of music products among them, greater than most organizations in those days. During two weekends in January of 1973, they documented the six songs of their eponymous recording at a piano shop in Brunswick, Western Germany, rather than much later on the recording was privately pressed at 1000 copies, to become offered at gigs and regional record shops. With three songs to a part, the music was mainly instrumental aside from a few songs sung in British by drummer Brandes. The music was all made up by the first choice of the group, keyboardist Freynik, using the lyrics by Freynik and Klaus Koch. The group lasted for nearly six years without the changes within their lineup before disbanding close to the end of 1977, because of loss of recognition, which they related to the rise of disco music. Through the group’s life-span they performed between 60 to 70 gigs, actually starting for Atomic Rooster and Frumpy. Some more demos had been recorded a couple of years following the LP, and display the music group veering right into a a lot more pop-oriented setting, with shorter tunes that retain just a few of their progressive details. These tracks, plus a much better 4th demo recorded at exactly the same time as the self-titled LP, have already been added as reward material towards the Compact disc reissue from the album, that was released from the Backyard of Delights label in 2001.