Yeti (album)

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yeti
Studio album by Amon Düül II

Publication
(s)

April 1970

Label (s) Ariola UA

Format (s)

LP

Genre (s)

Psychedelic Rock , Krautrock

Title (number)

9

running time

68:32

occupation

production

Olaf Kübler , Amon Düül II

chronology
Phallus Dei yeti Dance of the Lemmings

Yeti is the second album by the German psychedelic rock band Amon Düül II . The double LP was released in April 1970. It is considered one of the early albums that defined Krautrock .

Emergence

After the release of her first album Phallus Dei , Amon Düül II succeeded in negotiating with the record company to get a double album for the successor.

“There was a big uprising, the record company got a double LP. Spooky! "

- Olaf Kübler

The recordings took place in January 1970. Musicians from Amon Düül's first formation played on the piece Sandoz in the Rain for the sake of the old days . The Swiss company Sandoz , which had produced LSD , tried to sue this title.

Style and reception

The first record of the double album contains seven composed pieces, including the 13-minute long Soap Shop Rock suite , which, with its alternation between lyrical, contemplative passages and more powerful, sonorous passages, is reminiscent of King Crimson's early work . The second record contains three improvised pieces, of which the shocker Sandoz in the Rain after Stewart Mason ( Allmusic ) can be seen as the birth of space rock . Allmusic gave the album four and a half stars out of five. Ingeborg Schober praises the texts in her book about Amon Düül, in which the absurd and the ancient are spun with a fine sense of humor and says Archangel's Thunderbird would certainly have had a hit if it hadn't been published in Germany of all places. In June 2015, the renowned trade journal Rolling Stone voted the album at number 41 of the 50 best progressive rock albums of all time .

Cover

The cover was designed by Falk Rogner, the band's organist. For the photo montage he used a photograph of the former Amon Düül member Wolfgang Krischke as a grim reaper . Shortly afterwards, he froze to death under the influence of drugs while walking in a forest near Kronwinkl .

Track list

All pieces were written by Amon Düül II.

page 1

  1. Soap Shop Rock
    1. Burning Sister - 3:41
    2. Hallucination guillotine - 3:05
    3. Gulp a Sonata - 0:45
    4. Flesh-Colored Anti-Aircraft Alert - 5:53
  2. She Came Through the Chimney - 3:56

Page 2

  1. Archangels Thunderbird - 3:30
  2. Cerberus - 4:18
  3. The Return of Rübezahl - 1:35
  4. Eye-Shaking King - 6:37
  5. Pale Gallery - 2:11

Page 3

  1. Yeti (improvisation) - 18:00

page 4

  1. Yeti Talks to Yogi (improvisation) - 6:06
  2. Sandoz in the Rain (improvisation) - 8:55

Guest musician at Sandoz in the Rain :

  • Rainer Bauer: guitar, vocals
  • Ulrich Leopold: Bass
  • Thomas Keyserling: flute

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ingeborg Schober Dance of the Lemmings p. 105, Rowohlt, Hamburg, 1979, ISBN 3-499-17260-7 .
  2. ↑ a b c Yeti at Allmusic (English)
  3. ↑ Dance of the Lemmings, p. 98.
  4. ↑ John Weinzierl in an interview with Jason Gross from Perfect Sound Forever.
  5. ↑ Dance of the Lemmings, p. 105.
  6. ^ Dan Epstein: 50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time - Amon Düül II, 'Yeti' (1970). In: Rolling Stone . Wenner Media, June 17, 2015, accessed on September 30, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Dance of the Lemmings, p. 103.

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