Psychedelic Underground
Occupation
- Vocals: Angelica filandes, Ella Bauer, Rainer Bauer
- Guitar: Rainer Bauer
- Bass: Leopold Ullrich
- Drums: Peter Leopold
- Piano: Wolfgang Krischke
- Percussion: Angelica filandes, Helge filandes, Ella Bauer, Uschi Obermaier, Wolfgang Krischke
Psychedelic Underground is the first album of the German band Amon Düül. Included on the album are studio recordings from 1969.
Genesis
The band Amon Düül was formed in 1967 in Munich. Music was initially just one of the activities of the group also participated in other happenings and be understood as "part of the cultural and political revolt of those years ." Some of the musicians involved were beginners on the instruments. In 1968 there was a split within the group in the future split in a Berlin group Amon Düül Rainer Bauer and the Leopold brothers and continue operating from Munich group Amon Düül II by John Weinzierl and Chris Karrer. The Berlin grouping that belonged to the environment of the Kommune 1 and which also addresses the model Uschi Obermaier was involved in percussion instruments, the development of a "free " saw obliged rock music in the context of mainly political actions, while at the Munich grouping more conventional rock music in focus was.
While the music magazine Sounds even rewrote the sound of Amon Düül in 1968 as apocalyptic, exotic, evocative as the song of medicine men and the performances of the group as a mysterious and debilitating, it nevertheless managed to group within a year, their formerly disjointed fragments of melody and rhythm scraps to condense into long suspense. In 1969, it came to studio recordings of the Berlin group for two LPs, namely the debut album Psychedelic Underground and the album Para This Windwärts Düül. The two albums Collapsing song birds from leftover recordings for the debut album later backward and put together disaster.
From disagreement over the other artistic and personal perspectives, the Berlin group broke up in 1971, while Amon Düül II was granted in the following period greater success.
Reception
Reviewers admit the album entirely on historic character. It is considered a " document from the birth of the German rock " if not as the first Krautrock album ever since the first albums by Can or Xhol Caravan only appeared a few months later. But is consistently criticized the poor recording quality, the lack of musicality of the parties and the lack of song structures.
Various sources say that the English DJ John Peel (1939-2004) the term Krautrock in the first place of the included on the album title Mama Düül and their sauerkraut band plays have deduced on.
Title list
Page 1:
1 A miracle Pretty girl dreaming of Sandosa ( 17:03 ) 2 Kaskados Minnelied ( 2:53 ) 3 Mama Düül and your sauerkraut band Plays On ( 2:50 )
Page 2:
4 In the garden Sandosa ( 7:48 ) 5 The garden Sandosa in the morning dew ( 8:06 ) 6 Bitterlings transformation ( 2:30 )
More Issues
The album was re-released several times. In the U.S., it appeared without a title, in a reissue series of metronomes, it was the usual there This is ... series title, for a re-release on the label Brain, it was awarded the title Minnelied.
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