Amon Düül II - Yeti (1970) {2005, Japanese Reissue, Remastered}
BAND/ARTIST: Amon Düül II
- Title: Yeti
- Year Of Release: 1970 / 2005
- Label: Marquee Inc. #MAR 051055
- Genre: Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Krautrock
- Quality: EAC Rip -> FLAC (Img+Cue, Log) / MP3 CBR320
- Total Time: 01:07:57
- Total Size: 405 / 170 Mb (Covers)
- WebSite: Album Preview
Yeti is the second studio album by German rock band Amon Düül II, first released in April 1970 on Liberty as a double LP. The album was produced by Olaf Kübler and Amon Düül II, and engineered by Willy Schmidt, "with a little help of Siegfried E. Loch". Including both short songs and longer, improvisational tracks, British avant-garde music magazine The Wire describes Yeti as "one of the cornerstones of both Amon Düül's career and the entire Krautrock movement". In 2015 Yeti was chosen by Rolling Stone as the 41st greatest progressive rock album of all time. Dan Epstein described it as "one of the finest records of the entire original psychedelic era."
Track List:
01. Soap Shop Rock: A. Burning Sister [0:03:45.25]
02. Soap Shop Rock: B. Halluzination Guillotine [0:03:10.58]
03. Soap Shop Rock: C. Gulp a Sonata [0:00:46.45]
04. Soap Shop Rock: D. Flesh-Coloured Anti-Aircraft Alarm [0:06:04.15]
05. She Came Through the Chimney [0:03:02.72]
06. Archangels Thunderbird [0:03:33.30]
07. Cerberus [0:04:21.28]
08. The Return of Ruebezahl [0:01:41.22]
09. Eye‐Shaking King [0:05:40.48]
10. Pale Gallery [0:02:18.20]
11. Yeti (improvisation) [0:18:14.72]
12. Yeti Talks to Yogi (improvisation) [0:06:18.15]
13. Sandoz in the Rain (improvisation) [0:08:59.18]
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, 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.
~ Stewart Mason, All Music
Track List:
01. Soap Shop Rock: A. Burning Sister [0:03:45.25]
02. Soap Shop Rock: B. Halluzination Guillotine [0:03:10.58]
03. Soap Shop Rock: C. Gulp a Sonata [0:00:46.45]
04. Soap Shop Rock: D. Flesh-Coloured Anti-Aircraft Alarm [0:06:04.15]
05. She Came Through the Chimney [0:03:02.72]
06. Archangels Thunderbird [0:03:33.30]
07. Cerberus [0:04:21.28]
08. The Return of Ruebezahl [0:01:41.22]
09. Eye‐Shaking King [0:05:40.48]
10. Pale Gallery [0:02:18.20]
11. Yeti (improvisation) [0:18:14.72]
12. Yeti Talks to Yogi (improvisation) [0:06:18.15]
13. Sandoz in the Rain (improvisation) [0:08:59.18]
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