... Reissue der 1970er DoLP, ihr Zweitling und ein Klassiker! Acid-, Progressive-, Space-Rock, eine Menge Psychedelia und ein wenig „Free Rock“ gehen eine (oft laute und dicht instrumentierte!) Verbindung voller innovativer z.T. ziemlich ausgeflippter Ideen und Energie ein. Die frühen Pink Floyd hinterlassen massive Spuren, auch experimentellerer Natur, 1x auch Cream. Dazu kommen 2x relaxte fließende hippie-eske akustische Ethno-Sounds. (Sehr) lange eng verzahnte wie losere Improvisationen von Gitarre, Orgel, Geige wechseln mit kurzen Songs (z.B. die großartige Single Archangels Thunderbird, auch heute noch etwas Besonderes!). Auffallend: Renate Knaups teils klangmalerische Stimme.
(Glitterhouse)
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The second album by Amon Düül II (not to be confused with the
more anarchic radicals Amon Düül), 1970's Yeti, is their first
masterpiece, one of the defining early albums of Krautrock. A double album
on vinyl (most CD issues have squeezed the two discs onto one CD by cutting
three minutes out of "Pale Gallery"; the Captain Trips CD restores
it to its full five-minute length), Yeti consists of a set of structured
songs and a second disc of improvisations. It's testament to the group's
fluidity and improvisational grace that the two albums don't actually
sound that different from each other, and that the improvisational disc
may actually be even better than the composed disc. The first disc opens
with "Soap Shop Rock," a 12-minute suite that recalls King Crimson's
early work in the way it switches easily between lyrical, contemplative
passages and a more violent, charging sound, and continues through a series
of six more songs in the two- to six-minute range, from the ominous, threatening
"Archangels Thunderbird" (featuring a great doomy vocal by mono-named
female singer Renate) to the delicate, almost folky acoustic tune "Cerberus."
The improvisational disc contains only three tracks, closing with a nine-minute
stunner called "Sandoz in the Rain" that's considered by many
to be the birth of the entire space rock subgenre. A delicate, almost
ambient wash of sound featuring delicately strummed phased acoustic guitars
and a meandering flute, it's possibly the high point of Amon Düül
II's entire career.
(by Stewart Mason, All Music Guide)
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