Disaster (Luud Noma)

音楽志向のメンバーが脱退(AMON DUUL IIを結成)、政治活動志向のメンバーを中心に結成された通称"AMON DUUL (I)"による、ドイツ:BASFから発表された'72年作が'23年リマスター再発!

AMON DUUL解散後に、同バンドが録音していた過去のマテリアルから選曲/編纂された変則的な未発表音源集。'69年作『COLLAPSING』/'70年作『PARADIESWARTZ DUUL』に通じるスタジオギミックを施す前のインプロ音源で構成。ギミックが無い分、このバンド本来の退廃的でシャーマニックな要素も伺える、プリミティブな感覚に満ちたドラッギーなトリップ/エクスペリメンタル・サウンドが味わえるアルバムです!

Like the first two albums, Disaster comes from the same 1968 jam session, which if nothing else shows that the phrase "burst of creativity" can have a very real equivalent. As with the previous two releases, the emphasis is on open-ended, percussion-heavy, choppy-guitared songs with random, often wordless chanting, with rough sound being the general order of the day. Compared to the other two, Disaster has a slightly more "live" feeling, with less evidence of later studio additions or tweaks. It's a touch calmer as well, though nowhere near as sweet as Para Dieswarts Duul turned out to be. Exactly how planned this release was is up to question -- it appeared after the band had broken up, and its two-LP original format speaks of a serious clearing out of the vaults. Regardless, there are some definite winners here; Disaster could even be considered the logical conclusion of the band's "try anything and see what works" ethic. Opening song "Drum Things (Erschalgzuegtes)" is very much a classic lengthy jam in the style of Psychedelic's "Ein Wunderhubsches," with what sound like fingerbells providing a notable percussion element along with the pounding drums, especially at the end. Numerous other longer tracks like "Somnium (Trauma)" (which ends with some great drum work) and "Chaoticolor (Entsext)" make up the bulk of the album's length, most settling on a key riff and grooving away on it just fine, with slight alterations appearing as each piece progresses. Some of the shorter numbers are as close as the group ever got to catchy pop; one sprightly number, a Beatles semi-revamp barely a minute long before petering out, has the perfect title "Yea Yea Yea (Zerbeatelt)." Unfairly trashed over the years, Disaster is just like the band that made it -- wonderful, weird, and wiggy. ~ Ned Raggett