Aluk Todolo - Finsternis

What happens when you combine black metal and krautrock?
You get something that pretty much sounds like this.


Aluk Todolo - Finsternis

Once in a while a friend of mine will give me a small list of albums to listen to, which pretty much always turn out to be mind blowingly good. This is one such album and band.

This is Aluk Todolo, and I can't even begin to describe what this sounds like, so I'll let last.fm do the talking...

"With the goal to create a timeless, organic mix of krautrock’s strangeness and black metal’s coldness, combining Striborg with Faust, Burzum with This Heat, S.V.E.S.T. with Paul Chain, or Ildjarn with Can, Aluk Todolo conjures rabid obsessive rhythms and abyssal disharmonic guitars, subliminal spiritualist vibrations and bizarre, magick summonings. By reducing psychedelic improvisation to a bare, telluric instrumentation, and basking in the archaic rawness of lo-fi production, the trio elaborates on an audio ritual meant to be monolithic and stabbing, hypnotic but unpredictable, minimalist yet teeming."

So yea, there you go. Better than I could ever have done.

For fans of black metal, krautrock, experimental etc etc.

Tracklist

I		Premier Contact
II		Deuxième Contact
III		Totalité
IV		Troisième Contact
V		Quatrième Contact

Highly recommended

http://www.mediafire.com/?90m09kac8zi

Amon Düül II - Yeti

Love that cover.


Amon Düül II - Yeti

Krautrock. It's a genre I don't know that much about. Oh sure I can name drop a bunch of them, but I have never really given any of them a serious listen. Untill now, and starting with Amon Düül II.

This is Yeti, their 2nd album, released in 1970, and I must say, it is quite good. Musically, this is just a smorgasboard of awesome psychedelic improvisation and the like, with the title track being a lengthy 18 minute improvisation. In fact, a good half of this album is improvisation.

If you enjoyed the Silvester Anfang posted long ago, you should have a small understanding of just what you can expect here, as they were strongly influenced by this.

Recommended to fans of 70s music, psychedelic rock, and Silvester Anfang.

Tracklist

1. Soap Shop Rock/Halluzination Guillotine/Gulp a Sonata/Flesh-Coloured Anti-Aircraft Alarm
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2. She Came Through The Chimney
3. Archangels Thunderbird
4. Cerberus
5. The Return Of Ruebezahl
6. Eye-Shaking King
7. Pale Gallery
8. Yeti (Improvisation)
9. Yeti Talks To Yogi (Improvisation)
10. Sandoz In The Rain (Improvisation)

In addition, this also features the Rattlesnakeplumcake / Between the Eyes 7" as the final two tracks.


http://www.mediafire.com/?1gdpcjn4ru4fbzz