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Like its namesake mythical creature, Amon Duul II's YETI is a gigantic, threatening, and elusive beast that will easily trample listeners underfoot. Following up the epic PHALLUS DEI, YETI finds the Krautrock offshoot codifying their terrifyingly feral improvisations across four album sides of loud, psychedelic excess and dotting the fried landscape with a loose songcraft. "Soap Shop Rock," the four-part album opener, features droning organ, grilled violin, the distorted guitar tandem of Chris Karrer and John Weinzierl, and the yowling arias of Miss Renate Knaup fighting for space, while "Cerebus" loosens the band's more acoustic and Eastern yearnings. The entire album remains one of Krautrock's heavy masterpieces, but above the froth looms "Archangels Thunderbird," an anthem of demented catchiness for the ages.
Digitally remastered edition of the second album by Amon Duul II and is quite a musical achievement. Originally this was a double vinyl album set and now has been released and remastered on 1 CD. "Yeti" includes some of Amon Duul's most impressive work, delivering their thick, full-fledged, multi-layered sound with dense instrumentation and a certain epic vastness in many ways not unlike the craftmanship of early Can. This is Krautrock in the full mass of its power: huge, towering, dark and completely devoid of any happy optimism, but still bound full of energy. Instrumentally this album is pure magic with some great psychy sitar'ish acoustic guitar plucking and hand percussion interplay. "Yeti" is abundant also in the fusion of electric guitar, bass and drum interplay. The 2nd album is totally devoted to improvisation and in itself stands up as some of the most intriguing music you will ever hear. The first few Amon Duul II albums are essential bits of the psych/prog era.Spin (9/01, p.134) - Included in Spin's "5 Essential Krautrock Records" - "...A bluesless Led Zep. This sprawling 1970 masterwork is half ultra-heavy psychedelic riffology, half tender, rambling improv."
Q (Magazine) (p.141) - "[A] double album brimming with ideas and influences from free jazz to Pink Floyd, occasionally endowed with a hard-rock punch..."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.153) - "[T]hey stretch out with trippy improvisations featuring walls of feedback and largely intuitive time-changes." Amon Duul II Yeti Songs | 1. | Soap Shop Rock |
| 2. | She Came Through the Chimney |
| 3. | Arcangels Thunderbird |
| 4. | Cerberus |
| 5. | Return of Ruebezahl, The |
| 6. | Eye-Shaking King |
| 7. | Pale Gallery |
| 8. | Yeti - (improvisation) |
| 9. | Yeti Talks to Yogi - (improvisation) |
| 10. | Sandoz in the Rain - (improvisation) |
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Purchase Yeti CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Amon Duul II Phallus Dei CD (2006) Bonus Tracks
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 $15.25 
The post-psychedelic German phenomenon known as Krautrock pretty much starts here. The 1969 release PHALLUS DEI was the first album by Amon Duul II, who had split off from the more shambling, hippie-type communal outfit Amon Duul. The former had a darker, edgier spirit, and a greater sense of direction. That's not to say everything on PHALLUS DEI is tied up in a neat little package; it's a raw, bursting-at-the-seams sonic attack fully capable of melting ears at a thousand paces.
Like their Krautrock contemporaries, Amon Duul II were influenced by the psychedelic sounds of artists like Jimi Hendrix and Jefferson Airplane, but they transmuted that inspiration into something even more exploratory, open-ended, and primal. Bashing at guitars and drums like men possessed, they create a brain-frying firestorm of sound, cementing both their status as found fathers of Krautrock, and PHALLUS DEI's reputation as one of its definitive musical statements.
Digitally remastered edtion of the incredible debut by these Krautrock pioneers. This was one of only two albums to feature British-born bassist Dave Anderson (who would leave this band in order to join Hawkwind. This album was the result of the Amon Duul commune breaking up. The first half was more in the politics and community, but they did record a series of albums all under one jam. Then the other half of the Amon Duul was of course, far more musically inclined, and of course that was Amon Duul II. It's also pretty safe to ...
| | Amon Duul II Tanz Der Lemminge CD (1971) Bonus Track
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German art-hippie communards Amon Duul II were among the Krautrock genre's most unusual propositions. Less doggedly motorik in their approach than contemporaries Neu! and Harmonia, less self-consciously arty than groups like Faust and Can, their acid-drenched brand of psych-rock combined a wildly primitive streak with sophisticated prog-like arrangements. TANZ DER LEMMINGE, a brain-melting, epic double album set from 1971, stands as a definite statement of the group's early sound. Toning down the doom-laden guitar freakouts of their previous effort, YETI (1970), for a gentler, more acoustic palette, the follow up stretches out across four LP sides consisting of extended jamming, folksy vignettes, and freeform improvisations. TANZ. opens with an extended suite of acoustic jams cryptically titled "Syntelman's March of the Roaring Seventies." Building upon a thematically introduced melody through various connected movements, the song moves deliberately from gentle folksiness to fragmented, abstract weirdness. Meanwhile, "The Marilyn Monroe Memorial Church," a long form-free improvisation, bears almost no traces of the band's rock roots, recalling instead the proto-industrial soundscapes of groups like Kluster. While TANZ DER LEMMINGE marked the last album of Amon Duul II's ...
| | Steve Hillage Fish Rising CD (1975) (Import) Bonus Tracks; Remastered; Japan
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| | Amon Duul II Wolf City CD (1972)
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| | Danny Kirwan Second Chapter CD (2008) (Import) With Book; Limited Edition; Digipak; Germany
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| | Jam In The City CD (1977) (Import) Japan; Limited Edition; Mini LP Sleeve
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The Japanese edition comes on a picture disc and boasts remastered sound.
In the Year of Punk, the Jam's exploded onto the music scene with this seminal debut album. The raw, unfettered aggression of the band's approach was well in keeping with the spirit of the times, but the heart of their songs and sound lay in the mod movement of the mid-'60s (early Who, Creation, etc.). Singer/guitarist Paul Weller comes off like a cross between Joe Strummer and the young Pete Townshend, bashing unreservedly through "Slow Down," one of the R&B tunes that inspired the original mods.
Weller extols the virtues of frenzied dancing and nonconformist youth culture ("Non-Stop Dancing," "Away From the Numbers") over the raging three-chord attack of bassist Bruce Foxton and drummer Rick Buckler. The pure punk insouciance of his words and ...
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$14.45 | | Endless Highway: The Music Of The Band CD (2007)
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Though on an album with a cast list this big there are bound to be missteps (Gomez's fey, Brit-accented version of "Up on Cripple Creek" falls quite a few gin-and-tonics short of the hairy, moonshine-guzzling mountain-man feel of the original), the good points--such as Death Cab For Cutie's "Rocking Chair," which sounds tailor-made for Ben Gibbard's reedy, unusual voice--far outweigh the bad.
Much of this Band tribute compilation is surprisingly good, from Guster's Byrds-tinged "This Wheel's on Fire" to Widespread Panic's energetic recreation of "Chest Fever." Jakob Dylan conjures memories of Richard Manuel on a visceral rendition of "Whispering Pines," and Roseanne Cash's "Unfaithful Servant" focuses on that song's sense of disbelieving betrayal, while old stagers like Blues Traveler and the Allman Brothers contribute loose yet reliable versions of "Rag Mama Rag" and "The Night ...
| | Air Pocket Symphony CD (2007)
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Released in early 2007, POCKET SYMPHONY finds Air once again working with outside singers, as the French electronica duo did on '01's 10,000 HZ LEGEND. This time around, the guests are British vocalists Neil Hannon (aka the Divine Comedy) and Jarvis Cocker (formerly of Pulp), with the latter lending his signature droll charm to the woozy "One Hell of a Party."
The Hannon and Cocker tracks aside, SYMPHONY largely serves as a fine companion piece to the supremely laid-back TALKIE WALKIE, with Nicolas Godin and J.B. Dunckel once again tweaking their own half-whispered vocals under the guidance of producer Nigel Godrich (Beck, Radiohead), most notably on the dreamy, drifting "Once Upon a Time" and "Redhead Girl," which comes across as an ambient cousin to WALKIE's "Cherry Blossom Girl." While Air fans hoping for upbeat tunes like "Sexy Boy" and "Radio Number 1" will be left empty-handed, ...
| | Italienischer Barock CD (2007) (Import)
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Track Listing of songs: Concerto for Oboe And String Orchestra in D Minor Op.9 No.2 I. Allegro E Non Presto; Concerto for Oboe And String Orchestra in D Minor Op.9 No.2 Ii. Adagio; Concerto for Oboe And String Orchestra in D Minor Op.9 No.2 Iii. Allegro; Concerto for 4 Violins And String Orchestra in B Flat Major R.553 I. Allegro; Concerto for 4 Violins And String Orchestra in B Flat Major R.553 Ii. Largo; Concerto for 4 Violins And String Orchestra in B Flat Major R.553 Iii. Allegro; Concerto for Oboe And String Orchestra in C Minor I. Allegro Moderato; Concerto for Oboe And String Orchestra in C Minor Ii. Adagio; Concerto for Oboe And String Orchestra in C Minor Iii. Allegro; Concerto Grosso in G Minor Op.3 No.2 I. Largo E Staccato; Concerto Grosso in G Minor Op.3 No.2 Ii. Andante Risoluto; Concerto Grosso in G Minor Op.3 No.2 Iii. Allegro; Concerto for Oboe And String Orchestra in a Minor I. Allegro; Concerto for Oboe And String Orchestra in a Minor Ii. Largo; Concerto for Oboe And String Orchestra in a Minor Iii. Piano; Concerto for Strings Orchestra in F Major Op.4 No.8 I. Grave; Concerto for Strings Orchestra in F Major Op.4 No.8 Ii. Fuga a Cappella; Concerto for Strings Orchestra in F Major Op.4 No.8 Iii. Largo; Concerto for Strings Orchestra in F Major Op.4 No.8 Iv. Vivace; Concerto for Oboe And String Orchestra in D Major R.453 I. Allegro; Concerto for ...
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