Emtidi are a strange one. Two records - the first one is pretty much straight up folk. The second one is an incredibly bizarrely stunning psych folk kind of affair. Like all the great kraut records it completely outside of any canon or conception. Retains a bit wash of trad folk with a whole heap of kosmiche mixed in for luck.
Six tracks - The first track on each side is a bit different. Walkin' In The Park is beautifully sung and twists and turns around. And traditional bonkers lyrics - The grass is apparently to cold for their ass. It all goes trippy at the end too. Then it's off into synth city with a bonus hippy dippy plea to be one with something. It's so stunningly beautiful that it seems just weird to work.
On the other side Love Time Rain is slightly up tempo and a bit more urgent. Then back to the hippy dippy - the male and female vocals play off of each other and swirl around. Then it all ends on a whimper which follows some crazy German singing.
It's a hard record to describe but there's something magical about the way it all works together and how the vocals and guitars and synths blend together. It carries that Kraut tradition of seemingly impossible that such a beautiful record could have been made and that it exists. A total one off, it doesn't seem that Emtidi recorded again, nor did the members do anything again. This is probably one of my tip top favourite Kraut records.
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