This is the album that includes their single hit „Spoon“, the success of which enabled them to install a new studio in an old cinema in Weilerswist near Cologne. Now with a better equipment they recorded their fourth studio LP Ege Bamyasi there in 1972. Apart from the unusually catchy and harmonic tracks „Spoon“ and „Sing Swan Song“, the rest of the LP is weird, radical and uncompromising.
Not as sprawling psychedelic as on its equally brilliant predecessor Tago Mago, but here the band shows its preference for Vietnamese music as well as music from Morocco and Bali. Inspired by jazz and Middle Eastern percussion, drummer Jaki Liebezeit plays hypnotic, groove-driven loops in which guitar, bass and keyboards can float freely. To call Damo Suzuki a singer would be the understatement of the year. He doesn't sing, he celebrates all kinds of states of mind with his voice. The result is a fascinating and unique mix of grooving ethnic beats and cosmic progressive space rock.
The first press includes a printed inner sleeve, a large poster and a „poster“ sticker on front, which is insanely rare and sought-after world-wide.
