Kanaan/Dem Guten Schonen Wahren/Luzifers Ghilom/Henriette Krotenschwanz/Phallus Dei
Phallus Dei was the debut album from the Munich experimental group Amon Duul II. They were pioneers in establishing Germany as a major force for avant-garde electronic music in the seventies.
“This is Amon Duul II's first album, and it's everything that the American psych and freakout bands promised but could not deliver. Furiously surging, ebbing and flowing, the music combines elements of garage rock, avant-garde, psychedelia, and just plain all-out weirdness. All the lyrics are in German but it doesn't matter; what matters is that you will be swept away. Truly psychedelic music, not for the faint of heart, but spiral into the Duulian atmosphere and you may never return.”
"Phallus Dei, the last track of this psychedelic masterpiece, is an extended magnificent jam-session, divided into various movements, always getting the trance way. The middle-section is quite extraordinary, a madness of bongos and Turkish drums side-by-side with savage screams.”
“Phallus Dei introduced the dark, layered space psychedelia that made Amon Dull II one of the most inventive bands of their era. Some of this seems hokey now - the ghost noises on the second track, for example. But for innovation and a blueprint to truly dark underground music, this album has few peers.”
“Phallus Dei is a psychedelic mind-trip that is light-years ahead of most other releases of the era. One big sloppy stew of a musical melange that lacks only a light show and some love beads to complete the sixties experience. And perhaps a ticket for your trip back to Earth.”
“Dissonant and thickly layered, but not once noisy or monolithic. The harmonies and textures are deliciously subtle and ambiguous, but rhythmically the music is forward moving, even rocking. One of Krautrock’s most important statements, Phallus Dei is surprisingly 'rock' but also very unusual.”
“Amon Duul II were an early practitioner of Krautrock, and they were also one of the best. Here we have their gritty, psychedelic sludge-drenched debut, which is still one of the band's best, even if it's a little mad. An epic long trip that seems never to end, but is nonetheless captivating and fascinating."
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