Artist	Song
Sperrmnll	No Freak Out - {Sperrmull}
Amon Dnnl II	Dem Guten - {Phallus Dei}
Paternoster	The Pope Is Wrong - {Paternoster}
Yatha Sidhra	Part 3 - {A Meditation Mass}
Erna Schmidt	Ein Tag Aus Dem Leben Des Menschen P. - {Live '69-'71}
Mythos	Oriental Journey - {Mythos}
Siloah	Acid Eagle - {Siloah}
Deaf	Alpha - {Alpha}
Carol Of Harvest	You And Me - {Carol Of Harvest}

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Spurred on by the immensely fantastical Krautrock Mix by Mssr. Deadman, I thought it best to get off my ass and continue this series. Hence: Part II.This one includes a track by one of my ALL TIME favorite groups: Amon Duul II (their earlier incarnation, Amon Duul, will be represented in a latter edition).Amon Duul IINotes courtesy of Holeintheweb.comAmon Duul II is one of Germany's more interesting bands. Formed as a commune in 1967, the original Amon Duul had one main recording session, an epic affair which resulted in hours of acid-trip jamming, many of the participants non-musicians who just found something to bang on in a vaguely rhythmic fashion. A year before that session the commune had broken into two groups - musicians in one, the non-musicians in the other, which kept the original name. The musicians formed Amon Duul II.They were led by Chris Karrer (guitar, violin, soprano sax, some vocals), and were formed in the fall of 1968, on the eve of a major German rock festival to which "Amon Duul" was booked. Both Amon Duul and Amon Duul II played that festival on the same night. "Their first gigs were very erratic," Dag Erik Asbjornsen says of the group, "as some of the members had just started playing their instruments. This lack of conventional musical experience helped Amon Duul II to establish themselves as one of the major underground acts in Germany. Their reputation grew fast and they soon secured a signing with Liberty," a German branch of the American Liberty/United Artists record label. In early 1969 they recorded their first album, Phallus Dei, released later that year in Germany.Steven and Allan Freeman, in their The Crack In The Cosmic Egg, take a more positive point of view, describing the band this way: "For a while, a more or less stable nucleus of six musicians was forged, whilst many others came and went. Although they were all `stoned out of their minds,' during those early years, it's quite obvious that the musicians in Amon Duul II were of the highest calibre."The Freeman brothers say, "Their debut album, Phallus Dei, contained a charged and purely innovative music, with bizarre structures, almost operatic and crazed (male and female) vocals, with lots of distinctly Teutonic angst, tons of percussion, dueling violins, Eastern-scale guitars, and all really tripped out to the point of excess." They also describe the album as "like a hybrid of High Tide, Hawkwind and Third Ear Band," referencing three British psychedelic or experimental bands. Interestingly, an English musician, bassist Dave Anderson, played at different times in both Amon Duul II and Hawkwind. Personally, I found early Amon Duul II albums not so different from those of the less musical Amon Duul - but they have a devoted following to this day.Their second and third albums were both double-LPs, a sign of Amon Duul II's prodigious playing. According to the Freemans, "The following two albums, both doubles, are regarded by many as the finest Amon Duul II music, extensively featuring lengthy tracks and side-long segued suites, full of musical invention, surprises throughout. The albums were Yeti and Tanz Der Lemminge. Peter Leopold left Amon Duul to join Amon Duul II for the Lemmings album. The albums continued at a steady pace. Carnival in Babylon was released in 1972 by United Artists (UAS 29327). The Freemans say, "Reputedly, Carnival in Babylon was also planned as a double, but due to difficulties within the band, and obviously United Artists' pushing for an album that would sell a lot after their new-found success in Britain, it appeared as a single LP with shorter song-based tracks." Asbjornsen says of the music on this album, "It had a more melodic and accessible style."For any fan of Psychedelic Music, I can not urge enough for you to give one of these four selections a spin!Bis wir uns wieder auf Band Drei treffen, Genie¯en Sie!

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