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Features Disc of the day
Amon Düül II
Phallus Dei
(Repertoire, 1969)
Heavy kosmische madness from 1969...
From a hippie commune they came, racked by political differences, fuelled by ancient German mythology and equipped with an arsenal of exploratory free-form rock that remains compellingly bonkers. By the time they came to record debut LP Phallus Dei - that's God's Cock to the rest of us - Amon Düül II had been gigging relentlessly for well over a year, spending their live shows swapping ideas, instruments and hallucinogens. Clocking in at just under 21 minutes, the title track is a freak-out mix of tribal rhythms, incantatory chants, electric guitar meltdown and general psychedelic Sturm und Drang. It's brilliant and manages to switch between the sinister (the first 11 minutes), the pastoral (11:20 to 12:00), the terrifying (12:00 to 13:50) and the exuberant (the rest). After all that you'd expect things to go down hill but they just get weirder (ie. better). None more weirder than on Luzifer's Ghilom. A mere (pah!) eight and a half minutes in length, it's a relatively structured piece of heavy kosmische rock that when turned up to the required volume sounds as if it could cause a nearby Wicker Man to spontaneously combust. The band's keyboard player Falk Rogner told MOJO in 1997: "Onstage, it was often the case in Amon Düül that every musician was on a different drug." Luckily, for those of us that didn't experience them live, this unique chemistry is also all over their records. To take a tip from a magic mushroom-hungry Mani: "it's time for a boil-up".
Ross Bennett
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 04/03/2010
Further Listening
Amon Düül II – Yeti (Liberty, 1970)
Black Mountain – In The Future (Jagjaguwar, 2008)
Hawkwind – Space Ritual (United Artists, 1973)
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I l-o-v-e this album. It's funny, euphoric, and as stated totally bonkers. The two albums that followed - Yeti -and Tanz Der Lemming were lysergic masterpieces in a similar vein.
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