Yeti

• Artist: Amon Düül II
• Rating:
• Release Date: 1970
• Total Time: 67:49
• Genre: Rock

Review

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. [Most CD issues have squeezed the two discs onto one CD by cutting three minutes out of "Pale Gallery," but the Captain Trips CD restores it to its full five-minute length.] ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Soap Shop Rock: Burning Sister/Halluzination Guillotine/Gulp a Sonata	Sigfried Loch, Amon Düül	Amon Düül	(13:47)
She Came Through the Chimney	Sigfried Loch, Amon Düül	Amon Düül	(3:01)
Archangels Thunderbird	Amon Düül, Sigfried Loch	Amon Düül	(3:33)
Cerberus	Sigfried Loch, Amon Düül	Amon Düül	(4:21)
The Return of Ruebezahl	Amon Düül, Sigfried Loch	Amon Düül	(1:41)
Eye-Shaking King	Amon Düül, Sigfried Loch	Amon Düül	(5:40)
Pale Gallery	Amon Düül, Sigfried Loch	Amon Düül	(2:16)
Yeti (Improvisation)	Amon Düül	Amon Düül	(18:12)
Yeti Talks to Yogi (Improvisation)	Amon Düül	Amon Düül	(6:18)
Sandoz in the Rain (Improvisation)	Amon Düül	Amon Düül	(9:00)

Credits

Amon Düül (Lyricist), Olaf Kubler (Producer), Shrat (Group Member), Falk U. Rogner (Bass), Shrat (Vocals), Christian Strat Thiele (Violin), Chris Karrer (Guitar (12 String)), Chris Karrer (Violin), Falk U. Rogner (Organ), Amon Düül (Producer), Shrat (Percussion), Christian Strat Thiele (Vocals), Chris Karrer (Vocals), Renate Knaup-Kroetenschwanz (Percussion), Falk U. Rogner (Keyboards), John Weinzierl (Bass), Chris Karrer (Guitar), Falk U. Rogner (Group Member), Dieter Serfas (Drums), John Weinzierl (Guitar), Dave Anderson (Bass), Danny Secundus Fichelscher (Drums), Shrat (Bongos), John Weinzierl (Guitar (12 String)), Peter Leopold (Percussion), Rainer Bauer (Vocals), Renate Knaup-Kroetenschwanz (Drums), Dave Anderson (Group Member), Lothar Meid (Keyboards), Sigfried Loch (Assistant), Dieter Serfas (Percussion), Rainer Bauer (Guitar), Renate Knaup-Kroetenschwanz (Vocals), Falk U. Rogner (Artwork), Chris Karrer (Saxophone), Peter Leopold (Drums), John Weinzierl (Group Member), Amon Düül (Arrangement Director), H.J. Simon (Liner Notes), John Weinzierl (Vocals), Karl Heinz Hausmann (?), Shrat (Violin), Ullrich Leopold (Bass), Thomas Keyserling (Flute), Peter Leopold (Group Member)

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