YETI

Infectious kraut-improvisations forever!!! This album culminates Amon Duul II career with the unmistakable "Tanz der Lemminge". We find the ingredients that made the success of their previous effort "Phallus Dei" but the band injects an incredible sense of improvisation, with absolutely mind-blowing "mantric" ambiences. Almost all compositions are cosmic-kraut classics but the peak of "Yeti" is in the three long epic improvisations. The title track is a vertiginous, aggressive spacey, stoned act that is progressively growing in you. Guitars made a large part of work, the instrumentation is amazing despite that the sound and the technical skills of musicians are not at the same level of a band as Agitation Free or Embryo (also from german krautrock). Some nice floating-keyboards notes come after ten minutes of furious guitar improvisations. "Yeti talks to Yogi" takes back the same schema for propulsive, tripped out, wha wha, fuzzy guitar strings and some trancey like interludes. Distorted kraut-psychedelica, a better representative of the genre than the unfamiliar Can. Similar and sometimes more achieved musical experiences can be reach with albums from Agitation Free, Guru Guru, Gila (two first), Gaa...