VINYL FORMAT. Phallus Dei is the incredible debut by these Krautrock pioneers. 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. 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 say that Phallus Dei is to Amon Duul II what Monster Movie is to CAN: both being their most '60s s   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Yeti is the second album by Amon Duul II and is quite a musical achievement. This is a double LP set and contains some of Amon Duul's most impressive work - delivering their thick, full-fledged, multi-layered sound with dense instrumentation and a certain epic vastness. This is Krautrock in the full depth 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   [ read more ]

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Amon Dnnl II's fifth studio album is a more conventional recording than most, though there's still a lot of the involved experimenting and dark undercurrent which sets the band apart from the mainstream, along with the off-kilter hooks and odd humor which saved them from being lumped alongside more serious (and less easy to take seriously) prog rock outfits. After the lengthy explorations of Tanz der Lemminge, Wolf City seems targeted to an extent at a commercial English-speaking audience, perha   [ read more ]

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Amon Dnnl ll's extraordinary 1973 album finds the influential German art rock band working surprisingly well in a short song format while still stamping the music with their unique sound. "Fly United," "Trap," and "Ladies Mimikry" show diverse styles of pop and rock running happily into each other with memorably quirky results. The instrumentation here is as quirky as ever,too -- perhaps even more so than usual, with Chris Karrer's violin and sax playing now in the fore. The melodies   [ read more ]

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A curious release in the Amon Dnnl II catalog -- originally it appeared only in Britain, and then as an astonishingly cheap budget release -- Live in London is, unsurprisingly, exactly what it says it is. Recorded near the end of 1972, it features the full-band lineup performing songs mostly from Yeti and Tanz der Lemminge for a quite enthusiastic crowd (if prog rock bands performed for a bunch of stoned hippies, one would never know that from the cheers throughout). The group pours on the en   [ 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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The second album by Amon Dnnl II (not to be confused with the more anarchic radicals Amon Dnnl), 1970s 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 flui   [ read more ]

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There aren't many double art rock albums from the early '70s that have stood the test of time, but then again, there aren't many albums like Tanz Der Lemminge, and there certainly aren't many groups like Amon Dnnl II. While exact agreement over which of their classic albums is the absolute standout may never be reached, in terms of ambition combined with good musicianship and good humor, the group's third album is still probably the best candidate. The musical emphasis is more on expansive arrangem   [ read more ]

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"Kanaan" starts Phallus Dei wonderfully, a melange of rumbling rock power, strings and sitars, Lothar Meid's almost Bowie-ish vocals with Renate Knaup-Kroetenschwanz's wordless chanting in the background, that's just as intoxicating many years after its first appearance as it was upon release. The slightly jazzy concluding minute avoids sounding forced, blending in beautifully with the song's general flow. "Dem Guten, Sch÷nen, Wahren" takes a truly wacked-out turn, with Meid's bizarr   [ read more ]

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