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Release Date
1 January 1970
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Length
13 tracks
Yeti is the second studio album by German rock band Amon Düül II, first released in April 1970 on Liberty Records 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."
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."
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":
Rainer Bauer (from Amon Düül I) - guitar, vocals
Ulrich Leopold (from Amon Düül I) - bass
Thomas Keyserling (also recorded with Tangerine Dream) - flute
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