Track Side 1:

1. Bird Mammoth (4:03)

2. Classical Mammoth (1:20)

3. Mammoth Ecstasy (4.29)

4. Footmachine Mammoth (3:09)

5. Short Mammoth (1:45)

6. Shizoid Mammoth (3:22)

7. Da Du Da (4:53) ( Bonustrack )

Track Side 2:

1. Sewing thread mammoth (7:30)

2. Mammoth Opera (13:40)

Listen At YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBK0G8GZQvw

Aficionados of Krautrock will agree that “Mammut”s unfortunately sole album is legendary cult, an absolute rarity. FOR A well preserved copy One has ToTo 1000 euros, provided there isOneTo be had This lp now makes TheOne bonus track) availableFORA larger fan circle.

Three factors have contributed To TheA lively localMUSIC scene inThe southernBLACKForest region,A creative and dedicated Sound engineer/producer, andThe renowned record company MPS located in Villingen with their ownRecording Studios . Villingen and Donaueschingen, both situated in The southwest ofFOR their Jazz festivals (Villingen) andThe "Daysof newMUSIC ” (Donau-eschinger Musiktage), and are excellent examplesFORA high standard of musical and organizational commitment that isn't confinedToThe big cities, but exists inThe province, too. And of course there was AThe local musicians.

The Villingen based label MPS later was distributed by BASF, featuring top jazz musicians (such as Oscar Peterson, Erroll Garner, Dave Pike, Wolfgang Dauner, Volker Kriegel and many others), who did their recordings in The MPS studios WithoutTime pressure and inThe relaxed environmentofTheBLACKForest . Aki Kienzler, who also acted as Sound engineer OnThe recording equipment, accompanied by manyof these productions. Influenced by The musical spirit ofThe endofThe 1960's, andThe many various formsof expressionof Pop and rock MUSIC it brought with it, Aki Kienzler no longer wantedTo limit himselfToThe productionof jazzMUSIC , but wishedTo par take inThe new musical movement. Unfortunately, HIS intention ToMUSIC furOn deaf ears with MPS. Nevertheless, The PEOPLETo let him use themRecording StudiosFORHIS work. Kienzler called HIS label “Mouse Trick Track MUSIC ”. Although The financial and economical responsibility rested exclusively with him, he was allowed To use MPS's distribution channels. In 1969 and 1970 several local bands and musicians headed by Aki Kienzler began To develop contemporary rock MUSIC . In an atmosphere of enormous musical freedom, new MUSICSounds were composed in endless party likenight sessions, with each musician contributingHIS own ideas. Kienzler's job as head of these undertakings was not just TheHIS musical and technical abilities formed an essential partofTheMUSIC projects. Thanks To these recordings Two LPs could be published. The First One, entitled “Under Party Ground”, combined The recordings ofMUSIC material. A decisive incident, which eventually triggered The formation ofThe productionofThe title “Dä Du Dä” by “The Rope Sect”, both - guitarist Klaus Schnur and Aki Kienzler - recognizedThe title's andThe musicians' potential and were inspired with The ideaTo record an album inThe styleof this song. “Dä Du Dä” then became The forerunner ofThe oncoming big “mammoth project”, which is reason enoughTo include it asA bonus trackOn thislp .


At This point, The brothers Klaus and Peter Schnur, both guitarists, had ToFOR musicians willing and ableTo realize their musical concept. Influenced by The album “ DEEP PURPLESounds and folk melodies, their intention wasTo combine several musical styles and turn them intoA completely newOne . Their songs were meant To describe TheGENERAL situationof musicians, their difficulties and deficiencies, their world-weariness and fearof humiliation ("hunger artists"), but they also containedA musical protest againstThe military mania andA call FOR peace. Driven by these ideas “Mammut” created A true “Mammutalbum” ofof classicalMUSIC , and combining these with gloomy and eruptive organSounds , with acoustic guitar inThe background. This resulted in an innovative and explosive mixture, which, even after 40 years, is STILL as fascinating and hypnotizing as back then.
translation: DR. Martina Häusler (longhairmusic.de)