Udo Lindenberg - Dröhnland-Symphonie

Dröhnland Symphonie is one of Udo Lindenberg's most ambitious albums, a conceptual piece that drops the Panik Orchestra off in the frozen wastes of Greenland with just a string section and some penguins for company -- and then sets the huskies on them. You can hear the dogs approaching throughout the opening "Dröhnland Ouverture," and it's almost a letdown when normal service is resumed on the following, sort-of-Stonesy "Ole Pinguin." Almost. Dröhnland Symphonie was considered something of a shocker on release, a step back from the musical and political volcanoes that earlier Lindenberg albums had danced around -- all the more so since the renunciation of his earlier, green-faced, witchy-hatted persona admitted an almost wholesome-looking young man, who probably wouldn't say boo to a polar bear. Read More