Para Dieswarts Duul [Import]

Amon Duul | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 10, 1999)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Repertoire
• ASIN: B000024WUA
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #379,082 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Love Is Peace

2. Snow Your Thirst And Sun Your Open Mouth

3. Paramechanische Welt

4. Eternal Flow (Bonus Track)

5. Paramechanical World (Bonus Track)

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Kosmische Folk Template, November 20, 2004

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This review is from: Para Dieswarts Duul (Audio CD)

To say that this record has been a little influential is an understatement. This is the first and, for many, the last Amon Duul (Not to be confused with Amon Duul II) album you should buy.

The most musically accomplished statement this band ever made, it's a great minimalist psychedelic folk album.

Simple, repeating chords are stated, reversed and interlocked into patterns that recall both middle eastern music and stark modernism. Various percussion, group chants and wind instruments enter and exit while the vocals, which are surprisingly nice, slowly work themselves into a hypnotic mantra.
The whole thing sounds like a guided improvisation, and the band shows a greater understanding of restraint and composition than on their other recordings.

An early example of freakout space folk which left it's mark on the likes of Stereolab, Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, Psychic TV and Acid Mothers Temple. If you like this one, you might want to try 'Psychedelic Underground' next, but keep in mind that it's much more chaotic and free.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Album Where Amon Duul Actually Played Some Music, January 21, 2003

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Tom (London) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Para Dieswarts Duul (Audio CD)

Best Krautrock album of all time? Talk sense man! This is however, by quite a stretch, the best Amon Duul (as opposed to Amon Duul II) album of all time - but then as every other Amon Duul album is atrocious you may think that's no great achievement. But having screamed and hammered and thrown the musical equivalent of a tantrum for their 1st album (and subsequent albums culled from the same sessions), sometime in 1970 the various members of Amon Duul decided to make some music for a change - the result being first, the Eternal Flow/ Paramechanical World single (included here) and second, this album.

Just three tracks on the original album, "Love Is Peace" is almost a classic, in fact I often find myself singing it! The first part of the track is built on an intricate interlocking of guitars and harp and sounds like the lost link between the Grateful Dead, Television and the Thirteenth Floor Elevators and has excellent singing - in fact, this is just a great song. Unfortunately the rest of the track is pretty much disposable - an annoying "avant-garde" bridge section and a closing ragged jam. "Snow Your Thirst" is also somewhat of a ragged jam but builds in intensity and is oddly satisfying. The closing "Paramechanische Welt" appears to have no connection whatsoever with the single, "Paramechanical World", and is a extremely repetitive two-chord acoustic guitar jam with annoyingly loud conga-playing by Amon Duul II's Chris Karrer (John Weinzierl from said band is also on this track). All in all, if you liked "Sandoz in the Rain" from Amon Duul II's "Yeti" album you might just like this album.

Of great interest are the bonus tracks. Originally released as a single before the album, this must count as one of the least commercial singles of all time! Both of these songs are haunted, minor-key laments, almost rhythm-free, built around gothic guitar jangles - again, good vocals but, unfortunately, both disintegrate towards their respective ends as if the band weren't quite sure (or didn't have the requisite talent or were simply too stoned) how to develop the songs.

So, interesting album but no classic by any means.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If there has to be a best "Krautrock" album, this is it, June 13, 2001

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This review is from: Para Dieswarts Duul (Audio CD)

The second part of the second song on this album contains a slowly building jam that is the best piece of rock-based music I've ever heard. And the rest isn't too shabby either (just basically six meditations on Black Sabbath's "Planet Caravan"). A quiet, peaceful, piano tinkling, bongo slapping, acoustic strumming mindblower, THE downer rock album of all time.