Friday, February 16, 2007

Krautrock #5: Amon Duul - Psychedelic Underground

Should really post this with the next in line, as pretty much everything the original Amon Düül released was recorded in one long monster jam session in early 1969, around the time the more musical members of the family sodded off to become the Hawkwind-from-Hell #2 AD version who soon made Phallus Dei and many more fab freakouts. But anyways, these are selections from Psychedelic Underground. The album's most notable for the sidelong opening jam, which is mostly what you get when seventy or so unwashaed layabouts bang pots and pans in yr garden. But later they do add a tad more rigour -- or at least whoever mashed up the tapes in the studio later does so. Julian Cope said in his Unsung review of the record that it sounded like the cast of Gilligan's Island freaking on the Velvet Underground and I sort of see what he meant.


2. Kaskados Minnelied

6. Bitterlings Verwandlung


Download here (mp3s, 7.3 mb)

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