Yeti (album)

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]

For other uses of Yeti, see Yeti (disambiguation).
Yeti
Studio album by
Amon Düül II
ReleasedApril 1970
GenreKrautrock, progressive rock, psychedelic rock, avant-garde
Length67:49
LabelLiberty/Repertoire
ProducerOlaf Kübler, Amon Düül II
Amon Düül II chronology
Phallus Dei
(1969)		 Yeti
(1970)		 Tanz der Lemminge
(1971)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

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]

Part of the cover has been used on the cover of Julian Cope's book Krautrocksampler which provides a personal account of the underground music scene in Germany from 1968 through the 1970s.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Amon Düül II, unless noted[6].

Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Soap Shop Rock"
  • "Burning Sister"
  • "Halluzination Guillotine"
  • "Gulp a Sonata"
  • "Flesh-Coloured Anti-Aircraft Alarm"
  • "She Came Through the Chimney"
13:47
  • 3:41
  • 3:05
  • 0:45
  • 5:53
  • 3:01
Side B
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
2."Archangel Thunderbird"Amon Düül II, Siegfried Loch3:33
3."Cerberus" 4:21
4."The Return of Rübezahl" 1:41
5."Eye-Shaking King" 5:40
6."Pale Gallery" 2:16
Side C
No.TitleLength
7."Yeti (Improvisation)"18:12
Side D
No.TitleLength
8."Yeti Talks to Yogi (Improvisation)"6:18
9."Sandoz in the Rain (Improvisation)"9:00

The 2001 CD reissue on Repertoire Records 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:

Bonus Tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
10."Rattlesnakeplumcake"John Weinzierl, Falk Rogner3:18
11."Between the Eyes"Chris Karrer, Weinzierl, Rogner, Lothar Meid2:27

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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