(Review from progarchives.com)
The jam session that sprouted this album also served other releases but there isn’t a single doubt that the better material resulting from that monster jam clearly ended up on this album. Indeed this album is rather far away from the near aggressiveness of Psychedelic Underground (Hyde), a relaxed gentle hippy fee of this one (Jekyll). Compared to its predecessor(s), this album is at least better recorded, even if this is still close to what is nowadays called Lo-Fi.
The 17-mins opening Love Is Peace indeed shows Amon Duul in a very pastoral mood with flutes and gentle melodies over a smooth rhythm. Somehow the positive vibe of this track changes a lot from the almost oppressive spacey jams on other albums (even the mid-section separating the two jams) and this alone is sufficient to suffer its slightly over-stretched form.
The following (on the flipside) 9-mins+ “Snow Your Thrust” is more Indian raga influenced and comes with sitar and fuzz guitars. Great raga stuff with the second part which is slow entering and having to wait for a wah-wah’d guitar to start taking off, only to drop abruptly to its end.
Ending the album in yet another jam-style “Paramechanische Welt”, starting on a simple structure, but slowly crescendoing, where Chris Karrer (of Amon Duul II fame) plays a very enthralling tabla drums.
This edition of the album comes with two bonus tracks tagged on the end, the first of which, Eternal Flow is another calm slow crescendo (with a few playing glitches) that fits the album quite well. The second track is the English version of Paramechanische Welt (Paramechanical World), but the music is rather so different that you wouldn’t link the two tracks, except for the vocal lines (Karrer is not on tabla as well).
Line-up:
- Ella Bauer / harp, bongos
- Lemur / percussion, rhythm guitar
- Ulrich Leopold / bass, vocals, piano
- Dadam / guitars, vocals
- Hansi / flute, bongos
- Helge Filanda / percussion
- Noam / African drums
- John Weinzierl / guitar
- Chris Karrer / tabla
- Rainer Bauer / guitar, electric bass
- Klaus / guitar, electric bass, percussion
- Angelika Filanda / flute
Track List:
01. Love is Peace – 17:13
02. Snow Your Thirst And Sun Your Open Mouth – 9:28
03. Paramechanische Welt – 7:40
04. Eternal Flow (Bonus) – 4:13
05. Paramechanical World (Bonus) – 5:44
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