Even with only five tracks, Airs on a Shoestring is one of the best avenues to investigate Amon Duul's sometimes irritable, sometimes unlistenable brand of fragmented rock and jazz fusion. Before the band split into two, with many of the members becoming the more fruitful and rhythmically inclined Amon Duul II, the four albums that Amon Duul made were instrumentally austere to say the least, but still bred some interesting and appealingly splintered progressive music. Two of the tracks, {&   [ read more ]

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Even with only five tracks, Airs on a Shoestring is one of the best avenues to investigate Amon Duul's sometimes irritable, sometimes unlistenable brand of fragmented rock and jazz fusion. Before the band split into two, with many of the members becoming the more fruitful and rhythmically inclined Amon Duul II, the four albums that Amon Duul made were instrumentally austere to say the least, but still bred some interesting and appealingly splintered progressive music. Two of the tracks, {&   [ read more ]

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Amon Dnn II's follow-up to their landmark double-LP set Tanz der Lemminge features a musical approach less experimental than previous recordings, but nonetheless distinctive and broad-reaching in its sphere of influences. The almost epic tack of the earlier works has been pared down here, but full-forward, guitar-heavy tracks like "C.I.D. in Uruk," "Ballad of the Shimmering Sands," and "Kronwinkl 12" use disparate folk and hard rock elements cannily. The band moves the music with a maje   [ read more ]

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Released in 1974, Amon Dnnl II's Hijack (or, "Hi-jack," as it was released in Germany) is not frequently (if ever) regarded as one of their better albums. In fact, author Ingmar Schrober gives it a few scant sentences in {-Tanz der Lemmings}, his biography of the band published in 1979. For the most part, this critical dismissal is accurate -- fans and critics seem to agree for once -- most of what's here is unfocused, very polished, meandering psych prog that goes nowhere. But Hijack is signifi   [ read more ]

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