Amon Düül - Paradieswärts DüülIn 1968 the Mnchner Kommune, formed in 1967, had applied to Rolf Ulrich Kaiser, the organizer of the Essen Songtage, for a gig there. When the Dls arrived in Essen, already two bands of this name in the meantime, since 3 members had split off and now called themselves Amon Dl II. "Paradieswrts Dl" was released in 1971, it's the third album of this outfit. Recorded in 1970, Amon Dl's only album for Ohr was a visionary slice of acid folk which has

you have never heard this group before

and one can hear it on their very first recordings from 1980: beneath the songs‰۪ amphetamine stutter and sonic tachycardia are strands of rock ‰۪n‰۪ roll DNA belonging to Johnny Thunders and Keith Richards

a feature length live film and soundtrack

that led her to begin carefully strumming her way through simple chords and making her own songs

There are obvious nods to Debbie Harry

Pitchfork album reviewer Scott Hreha rates the album 8

and on it Parker addresses a blindingly colourful panorama of transition in the most audacious

and in many ways feels like it could have simply been the next album helmed by Kilgour instead of one that comes nearly 20 years later

not to compromise any original vision or anything

but also the literal sounds of the streets

This collection represents the band’s entire recorded studio works including songs from the “Cruising” Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

I had to stop and do nothing else