Yeti (album)


Yeti is the second studio album by German rock band Amon Düül II, first released in April 1970 on Liberty 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."

Cover art

The cover was designed by the band's organist, Falk Rogner, and features a collage depicting the Grim Reaper, 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."

Track listing

All songs by Amon Düül II, except where noted:
Side A
  1. "Soap Shop Rock" – 13:47
  2. # "Burning Sister" – 3:41
  3. # "Halluzination Guillotine" – 3:05
  4. # "Gulp a Sonata" – 0:45
  5. # "Flesh-Coloured Anti-Aircraft Alarm" – 5:53
  6. "She Came Through the Chimney" – 3:01
Side B
  1. "Archangel Thunderbird" – 3:33
  2. "Cerberus" – 4:21
  3. "The Return of Rübezahl" – 1:41
  4. "Eye-Shaking King" – 5:40
  5. "Pale Gallery" – 2:16
Side C
  1. "Yeti " – 18:12
Side D
  1. "Yeti Talks to Yogi " – 6:18
  2. "Sandoz in the Rain " – 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 :
  1. "Rattlesnakeplumcake" - 3:18
  2. "Between the Eyes" - 2:27

    Personnel

Guests on "Sandoz in the Rain":