The Krautrock Space

Tom Ozric wrote: Back to Duul for now : I listened to Yeti last night..... Well, I bought my UA copy, with textured gatefold sleeve, around 1990, a beautiful example, for a measly 8 Aussie dollars. Anyway, their improvs on record 2 are outstanding. I mean, every member just telepathically locked in with one another, a total excercise in listening to each other, knowing what's going to happen next and anticipating who will do what. Probably all on acid, all on the same wavelength, producing nothing less than a true MASTERPIECE. I simply worship Yeti.

YETI, is, for me, and by very far, one of the very best "improvisations" I have ever head. The next one, happens to be the same group and is on Dance of the Lemmings, the MM thing is totally awesome.

I don't think, that it is necessarily about drugs, since, after all in "Phallus Dei" I really believe they made fun of the culture in the commune before they became AD2. (Get stoned, dance and then have a party!). But, if one can use suggestions from theater exercises (and AD2 had theater and film with them, just like CAN also did), it is possible that they had a very well "guided" improvisation, that was less about the notes and the chords, than it was about a visual or auditory concept and idea that someone had. This is not difficult to do with music, but it is something that musicians don't like to do, specially when they are married to the top ten board, and funny ideas that music has to have this and that instead.

I also think that it is demeaning to their music intelligence that they would have to be ripped to do that. I do not believe this, at least, from exercises I did on stage with actors, on rehearsals, which focused on psychic contend and attention ... it was not hard to do, but can be difficult if folks are not willing to participate.