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Amon Düül II - Yeti (1970) (Digipak Remaster 2002)
First released in 1970, Yeti was the second album by Amon Düül II and is quite a musical achievement. Originally released as a double vinyl album set and now re-mastered onto a single CD, Yeti contains some of Amon Düül's most impressive work, delivering their thick, full-fledged, multi-layered sound with dense instrumentation and a certain epic vastness... in many ways not unlike the craftmanship of early Can. This is Krautrock in the full mass of its power: huge, towering, dark and completely devoid of any happy optimism but still bound full of energy. Instrumentally, Yeti is an album of pure magic with some great psychy, sitarish, acoustic guitar plucking and hand percussion interplay. Yeti is also abundant in the fusion of electric guitar, bass and drum interplay and is totally devoted to improvisation and stands up as some of the most intriguing music you will ever hear. The first three Amon Düül II albums are essential artifacts of the psych/prog era.
Amon Düül II, the second formation of this now legendary band, are one of the earliest and best known of the German experimental (Krautrock) bands. For the complete re-issue series of the Amon Düül II catalogue, the CDs will be released as remastered deluxe editions, with enhanced booklets, featuring new liner notes and photos...D. Jellinc
This is the record that Julian Cope gushed was the best album to come out of the KRAUTROCK movement. I personally cant concur, but its certainly one of the greatest albums from that 1969-1977 classic KRAUTROCK period. YETI is Amon Duul II's second album, and seems to be the point where the band was most closely united inside a musical psychedelic transcendence. After YETI, personal changes started to affect the band, making them sound sold out and stale, after VIVA LA TRANCE. But they really had something wild going on for their YETI double album. (The CD runs about 73 minutes long, including two songs that AMAZON dont list--RATTLESNAKEPLUMCAKE and BETWEEN THE EYES...the A and B side of a single that was released about this time.) This bands truly unique sound stems from their song structures, which meander around, returning to recognizable leitmotifs periodically, especially on their LONG composistions, like "Soap Shop Rock". Everything about this music SCREAMS Psychedelia, right down to the titles of some of the songs. "SANDOZ IN THE RAIN" (an improv song stuck at the end of the album) refers to the Swiss pharmeceutical company that first produced LSD. But its the wild chaos of the instruments, the drums, the crazy lyrics (in english of course), and the male and female singers, that really make this music take off. Some people compare their sound to Jefferson Airplane or even Velvet Underground, but the analogy only extends to the bands all using both a male and female singer. AMON DUUL's sound is more atonal than MOST of the Jefferson Airplane material, with none of the Airplane's "folk" backround in their songs. The VU comparison comes from the flipped out violin solos that pop up now and then. (It does remind you of the atonal chaos of a good John Cale solo ala 1968.) But the guitars are almost ALWAYS electric, and ALWAYS turned up loud, providing a distorted, overdriven haze to their sound. A beautiful exception is CERBERUS, an instrumental acoustic piece, that has acoustic guitar leads weaving in and out of a sonic miasma of bongos, bass, and vocalizations. Then it turns electric for no good reason, reinforcing the chaos that permeates the album's core sound. Renate, the female singer, loves singing slightly out of key, giving her voice a "dark", keening sound, with melodic shapes that jump up and down randomly on the soundscape. When she's singing like that, with those strange guitar solos occuring concurrently, the colors bleed into a dense, deep sonic overload. YETI was recorded in 1970, after their first album, 1969's "PHALLUS DEI" nearly single handedly started the Krautrock movement. Like the Grateful Dead's short commune period at Haight st, AMON DUUL also arose from a hippie commune, with left wing political ideologies. (AMON DUUL "1", the more political arm of the commune, also put out several less musical albums. Amon Duul 1's music is hard to get into. They sound like Zappa's HELP I"M A ROCK, for album after album.) So if you can handle some freaky, free and funky musical experiments that definately arose from the use of spiked sugar cubes, and enjoy EARLY Pink Floyd, mixed with Jefferson Airplane's electric freak outs from AFTER BATHING AT BAXTERS, then YETI is a safe bet. If calling the album KRAUTROCK brings up visions of drum machines, and KRAFTWERK's electronic new wave sound, or Tangerine Dreams long, ambient synthesizer experiments, DONT WORRY. More than other KRAUTROCK bands, AMON DUUL's first 3 albums are FLUID ACID ROCK, far from the pop psychedelia of other less adventurous bands exploring that style. Still, Amon Duul II's YETI is unique, unlike anything you might have heard from LONDON's or SAN FRANSISCO's acid rock jam bands from that era. That's what makes Yeti's sound such a fun surprise when you start to groove into it...T. Hoffman
Codec: mp3
Bitrate: 320 kB/s
Size: 168 MB
Genre : Prog. Rock, Krautrock
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Line-up
- Renate Knaup / vocals, tambourine
- Chris Karrer / violin, guitars, vocals
- John Weinzierl / guitars, vocals
- Falk Rogner / organ
- Peter Leopold / drums
- Dave Anderson / bass
- Shrat / bongos, vocals
Tracklist:
01. Soap Shop Rock:
- a. Burning Sister (3:41)
- b. Halluzination Guillotine (3:05)
- c. Gulp A Sonata (0:45)
- d. Flesh-Coloured Anti-Aircraft Alarm (5:53)
02. She Came through the Chimney (3:56)
03. Archangels Thunderbird (3:30)
04. Cerberus (4:18)
05. The Return of Ruebezahl (1:35)
06. Eye-Shaking King (6:37)
07. Pale Gallery (2:11)
08. Yeti (Improvisation) (18:00)
09. Yeti Talks to Yogi (Improvisation) (6:06)
10. Sandoz in the Rain (Improvisation) (8:55)
11. Rattlesnakeplumcake (Bonus) (3:18)
12. Between The Eyes (Bonus) (2:29)
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