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Yeti (album)

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Released
  
1970

Artist
  
Amon Düül II

Producer
  
Olaf Kübler

Length
  
67:49

Release date
  
1970

Label
  
Repertoire Records

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Yeti (1970)
  
Tanz der Lemminge (1971)

Genres
  
Krautrock, Progressive rock, Psychedelic rock, Avant-garde music

Similar
  
Amon Düül II albums, Krautrock albums, Other albums

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Yeti is a double LP by krautrock band Amon Düül II which was first released in 1970 on Liberty (Germany: LBS 83359/60 X; United Kingdom: LSP 101). 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."

Contents

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."

Track listing

All songs by Amon Düül II, except where noted:

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, Sigfried 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":

  • Rainer Bauer (from Amon Düül I) - guitar, vocals
  • Ulrich Leopold (from Amon Düül I) - bass
  • Thomas Keyserling (also recorded with Tangerine Dream) - flute

    • Songs

    1Soap Shop Rock - A Burning Sister - B Halluzination Guillotine - C Gulp a Sonata - D Flesh-Coloured Anti-Aircraft Alarm13:46
    2She Came Through the Chimney3:01
    3Archangel's Thunderbird3:33

    References

    Yeti (album) Wikipedia
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