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May 17, 2005
tender your resignation with a flaming arrow
Amon Duul II - Soap Shop Rock: Burning Sister/Halluzination Guillotine/Gulp A Sonata/Flesh-Coloured Anti-Aircraft Alarm
There is something truly heartwarming about a 13 minute song, particularly when it sounds as massive as the 'Soap Shop Rock' suite, and especially when it comes from the more musically-minded splinter group of a late 60s/early 70s German political/artistic commune. Amon Duul II, indeed. You can hear their influence in the music of bands like Black Mountain (when the vocals come in on Black Mountain's 'Heart of Snow', it's hard not to make the Amon Duul comparison), Built to Spill, maybe Cat Power a little bit, Jay-Z obviously, um, that group Sniddledrak- and about a thousand other bands, actually.
I'm not going to write a crazy in-depth description of this track because 1)it's a little intimidating, and 2)sometimes it's just best to enjoy a piece of music like this without any expectations. The album that this is taken from, "Yeti", is composed of both pre-written and improvised songs, and ends with an intensely beautiful track called 'Sandoz in the Rain'. You can buy it here. It's sort of mind-blowingly great. OK, one thing about 'Soap Shop Rock': it's got an annular structure. Who else is wildly excited by that?!
Posted by Kevin at May 17, 2005 09:16 PM
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