''Yeti'' is the second studio album by German rock band

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, first released in April 1970 on

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(Germany: LBS 83359/60 X; United Kingdom: LSP 101) as a double LP. The album was produced by Olaf Kübler and

, 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 ''

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'' 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

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(German: ''Der Sensenmann''), made from a photograph of Wolfgang Krischke. Krischke, who had worked with the band as a sound man, had died of

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while under the effects of

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. 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."Gross, Jason (August 2008)
Amon Düül II: John Weinzierl interview
'' Perfect Sound Forever'' Retrieved 2010-10-23 Part of the cover has been used on the cover of Julian Cope's book

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which provides a personal account of the underground music scene in Germany from 1968 through the 1970s.

Reception

In 2015 ''Yeti'' was chosen by

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as the 41st greatest progressive rock album of all time. Dan Epstein described it as "one of the finest records of the entire original psychedelic era."

Track listing

The 2001 CD reissue on

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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:

Personnel

* Peter Leopold – drums * Christian "Shrat" Thierfeld – bongos, vocals * Renate Knaup – vocals, tambourine * John Weinzierl – guitar, 12 string guitar, vocals *

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– violin, guitar, 12 string guitar, vocals * Falk Rogner – organ * Dave Anderson – bass 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

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) – flute

References

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