Yeti (album)

Yeti
Studio album by Amon Düül II
Released April 1970
Genre Krautrock, progressive rock, psychedelic rock, avant-garde
Length 67:49
Label Liberty/Repertoire
Producer Olaf Kübler, Amon Düül II
Amon Düül II chronology
Phallus Dei
(1969)Phallus Dei1969		 Yeti
(1970)		 Tanz der Lemminge
(1971)Tanz der Lemminge1971
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Yeti is the second studio album by German rock band Amon Düül II, first released in April 1970[2] on Liberty (Germany: LBS 83359/60 X; United Kingdom: LSP 101) 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."[3]

Cover art

The cover was designed by the band's organist, Falk Rogner, and features a collage depicting the Grim Reaper (German: Der Sensenmann), made from a photograph of Wolfgang Krischke. Krischke, who had worked with the band as a sound man, had died of hypothermia while under the effects of LSD. Rogner said: "When he died I thought that the photo would be a perfect tribute to his memory. He never managed to find his way into Amon Düül properly when he was alive, so maybe his image as Der Sensenmann will work as a strange cover image and he could be remembered as a magical person."[4][5]

Track listing

All songs by Amon Düül II, except where noted:[6]

Side A

  1. "Soap Shop Rock" – 13:47
    1. "Burning Sister" – 3:41
    2. "Halluzination Guillotine" – 3:05
    3. "Gulp a Sonata" – 0:45
    4. "Flesh-Coloured Anti-Aircraft Alarm" – 5:53
  2. "She Came Through the Chimney" – 3:01

Side B

  1. "Archangels Thunderbird" (Amon Düül II, Siegfried Loch) – 3:33
  2. "Cerberus" – 4:21
  3. "The Return of Rübezahl" – 1:41
  4. "Eye-Shaking King" – 5:40
  5. "Pale Gallery" – 2:16 (5:12 on Captain Trip Records CD reissue)

Side C

  1. "Yeti (Improvisation)" – 18:12

Side D

  1. "Yeti Talks to Yogi (Improvisation)" – 6:18
  2. "Sandoz in the Rain (Improvisation)" – 9:00

The 2001 CD reissue on Repertoire Records (REP 4919) includes all the above on a single CD, together with two bonus tracks which were originally the A- and B-sides of a 1970 single (German Liberty 15417):

  1. "Rattlesnakeplumcake" (John Weinzierl, Falk Rogner) - 3:18
  2. "Between the Eyes" (Chris Karrer, Weinzierl, Rogner, Lothar Meid) - 2:27

Personnel

  • Renate Knaup - vocals, tambourine
  • John Weinzierl - guitar, 12 string guitar, vocals
  • Chris Karrer - violin, guitar, 12 string guitar, vocals
  • Falk Rogner - organ
  • Dave Anderson - bass
  • Peter Leopold - drums
  • Christian "Shrat" Thierfeld - bongos, vocals

Guests on "Sandoz in the Rain":

References

  1. ↑ Yeti at AllMusic
  2. ↑ Schober, Ingeborg Tanz der Lemminge. Pg. 105, Rowohlt, Hamburg, 1979, ISBN 3-499-17260-7.
  3. ↑ Pouncey, Edwin (February 1996) "Communing With Chaos" The Wire 144
  4. ↑ Pouncey 1996
  5. ↑ Gross, Jason (August 2008) "Amon Düül II: John Weinzierl interview" Perfect Sound Forever Retrieved 2010-10-23
  6. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/release/yeti-germany-bonus-tracks-mr0000456432
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