Psychedelic underground

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Psychedelic underground
Studio album by Amon Düül

Publication
(s)

1969

Format (s)

LP , CD

Genre (s)

Psychedelic Rock / Krautrock

Title (number)

6th

running time

41 min 10s

occupation
  • Singing : Angelica Filanda, Ella Bauer, Rainer Bauer
  • Bass : Ullrich Leopold
  • Piano : Wolfgang Krischke

Psychedelic Underground is the first album by the German band Amon Düül . The album includes studio recordings from 1969.

History of origin

The band Amon Düül formed in 1967 in Munich . Music was initially just one of the activities of the group, which also took part in other happenings and saw itself as "part of the cultural and political revolt of those years". Some of the musicians involved were beginners on the instruments. In 1968 there was a break within the group, which in the future split into a Berlin group of Amon Düül around Rainer Bauer and the Leopold brothers and the Amon Düül II group around John Weinzierl and Chris Karrer, which continued to operate from Munich . The Berlin group, which belonged to the environment of Commune 1 and in which the model Uschi Obermaier also worked on percussion instruments, saw itself obliged to develop "free" rock music in the context of primarily political actions, while the Munich group tended to use conventional rock music in the The focus.

While the music magazine Sounds described the sound of Amon Düül in 1968 as apocalyptic, exotic, evocative like the singing of the medicine men and the performances of the group as mysterious and paralyzing , the group managed to get their previously incoherent fragments of melodies and rhythmic scraps within a year to condense into longer arcs of tension. In 1969 the Berlin group finally made studio recordings for two LPs, namely the debut album Psychedelic Underground and the album Para Dieswärts Düül . The two albums Collapsing Singvögel zurück and Disaster were later put together from the recordings left over for the debut album .

Due to disagreement about further artistic and personal perspectives, the Berlin group disbanded as early as 1971, while Amon Düül II enjoyed greater success in the period that followed.

reception

Reviewers admit that the album is steeped in history. It is considered a “document from the birth of German rock”, if not the first Krautrock album ever, as the first albums by Can or Xhol Caravan were only released a few months later. However, the poor recording quality, the lack of musicality of those involved and the lack of song structures are consistently criticized.

Various sources say that the English DJ John Peel (1939-2004) first derived the term Krautrock from the title Mama Düül and her sauerkraut band plays on the album .

Track list

Page 1:

1. A beautiful girl dreams of Sandosa (17:03)
2. Kaskados Minnelied (2:53)
3. Mama Düül and her sauerkraut band plays on (2:50)

Page 2:

4. In the garden of Sandosa (7:48)
5. The garden of Sandosa in the morning dew (8:06)
6. Bitterling's transformation (2:30)

Further editions

The album was re-released several times. In the USA it was released without a title, in a reissue series of the Metronome it received the usual This is ... series title, and for a re-release on the Brain label it received the title Minnelied .

On LP:

  1. "Psychedelic Underground" Metronome [Germany] MLP 15332
  2. "Amon Düül" Prophesy (Bell) [USA] PRS1003
  3. "This Is Amon Düül" Metronome [Germany] 200.146
  4. "Minnelied" Brain [Germany] 0040 149

On CD:

  1. "Psychedelic Underground" Captain Trip Records [Japan] CTCD-021
  2. "Psychedelic Underground" Spalax Music [France] 14947
  3. "Psychedelic Underground" Repertoire [Germany] REP 4616

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Haring: Rock aus Deutschland West , rororo 1984, p. 41 ff.
  2. ^ Hermann Haring: Rock aus Deutschland West , rororo 1984, p. 41 ff.
  3. ↑ Haring (1984), p. 42

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