Mammut's sole album is most certainly German, but it doesn't sound "Krautrock" in the sense the term has come to mean. A much more compositionally focused band with copious use of piano, organ, and flute, and an almost American sense of psych-pop songwriting, considering the vocal approach. Love the constant pounding drums that keep the toes tapping. Borders the psychedelic and progressive era's nicely. A fine album, that needs many listens to penetrate.
Ownership: LP: 2009 Long Hair. Single sleeve. As an original, the single sleeve Mammut's album is seriously rare - easy 4 figure album. My introduction to the album came via the Little Wing LP reissue, that I bought upon release, as this was one of my top wants at the time. As is Little Wing's unfortunate custom, they created an entirely different cover, so as to not desecrate the original. Whatever. Their CD reissues were even worse, only using a generic brown and red sleeve. Fortunately they didn't get around to doing this one on CD.
On the topic of CDs, imagine my surprise when I learned a few years later (I want to say around 1999 or so?) that Ohrwaschl had already reissued this on CD! This became an immediate top want for me. Apparently the story is that someone challenged the legality of it, and they pulled it from the shelves immediately. I did finally source one, and dumped the Little Wing album. Of course the CD isn't anything special, like all Ohrwaschl releases, and I've released it.
1/19/14 (new entry)
1/19/14 (new entry)
I'm still keeping the Ohrwaschl CD I got back in the day. It's very, very rare.
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