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Amon Düül II
Yeti
(Liberty 1970; reissued by Revisited 2006)
Hippy-punk communards from Munich chase drug-refracted pagan gnosis!
First, the sad news. The Grim Reaper on the sleeve of Yeti is Wolfgang Krischke, associate of the band’s sister group Amon Düül I – shortly after the picture was taken, he took LSD, fell asleep in the snow and froze to death. This improvisational epic is an appropriately out-there tribute, albeit more structured than its immediate predecessor, the bongo-overloaded Phallus Dei (that’s God’s Cock to you, chief), and melds free-rock with actual tunes to brain-dilating effect. Singer Renate Knaup, who looks like the attractive witch on the sleeve of the first Black Sabbath LP, Yoko’s it up while guitars howl and slither and drums beat out their Satanic propulsions. The best songs are the psychedelically funky Archangels Thunderbird and the Dalek-voiced freakout Eye Shaking King; the mournful flute and guitars of closer Sandoz In The Rain, meanwhile, remind you of poor old Krischke making his final, icy date with infinity. Their shows were crazed too; violinist/guitarist Chris Karrer told Edwin Pouncey about a Russian fan called Anatole in a 1996 issue of The Wire: “He used to dance to our music in a very extreme fashion. Once I saw him at the front of the stage with this naked old woman and he was shoving his Vaselined finger in and out of her backside to the rhythm of the music while ringing this bell at the same time.” You don’t get Coldplay provoking that kind of response.
Ian Harrison
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Further Listening
Amon Düül II – Phallus Dei (Liberty, 1969)
Can – Soundtracks (UA, 1973)
Syd Barrett – The Madcap Laughs (Harvest, 1970)
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I have finally started getting into Amon Düül II and think they are one of the great German bands of that period. The music may be seen as a product of its time, but also screams out as being relevant today.
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