Hippopotamus is frequently lumped in with the Kraut Fusion crowd (and I have it in my own list), but it isn't really. The instrumentation is alto and tenor sax, piano, lightly amplified electric guitar, bass, and drums. It's as jazz as jazz is. There's absolutely zero edge here. On compositions such as 'Midnight in Ruhrort' and the title track, one can hear similar themes as found on the 1974 Missus Beastly album, minus any kind of rock ambition of course. Overall an OK jazz album, nothing more nothing less.
No reissues exist.
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