DEUTSCH NEPAL

[hellcaddie2002]

bakshi's animation begs for detourning like this. his movies are just appropriations of better artists' (crumb, bode, etc.), then he makes their "static" (though infinitely more lively) art into animations. but they don't mean anything, and become better with the right music. the krautrock band, german oak, takes these musical ideas into even darker corners of a faceless nazi soldier's unconscious mind as the war accelerated until germany collapsed in disgrace. drowsy demons being poked awake.

[hellcaddie2002]

@hellcaddie2002 or dead demons' eerily warm bodies being poked open so we can stay warm in the freezing cold wastes left behind after the apocalypse. HA!

[steeplepossum39]

Thanks for your response ,I always wondered why the singer was coughing.

[steeplepossum39]

This song takes me back 35 years and is really good buy what is it with the singer coughing?

[emilyoshiro]

ive had this l.p. for years! never knew it could look so good!!! thanks 4 post

[GolliwoggMusic]

Golliwogg APPROVES of this song.

[steeplepossum39]

Most of this I like but iwndered if hitler wanted his prescense somewhere to be found on Outube.There be unthinkable happenings in tef future but I will be Among them look closely and i am to be found.

[Slepaw]

One of my fave songs, set to one of my fave movies - THANK YOU! .

Someone asked if there is more than one version of this song. This is the version from 'Wolf City' (1972). There is a  different version from 'The best of - 1969-74'. 'evoking swirling gusts of icy snow and the emergence of an ancient Frankenstein monstor from some Transylvanian cave as the... voice of a demented Hitler shrieks garbled nonsense into the wind' (Greg Shaw, Phonograph, 3/73)

[claux23]

This is still my favorite video. Whoever put the vid together with this song is a genius.

[Parkinson9999]

there can't be better video for this song.

[HiddenPaths09]

I love this video.

[thefrisquette]

What can I say.....I'ts my life,an other life,perhaps definitive with Amon Duul!!!!!

[tralalalatum]

cool

[HiddenPaths09]

This is the original Deutsch Nepal, it isn't?

[namfoodler]

Is there any higher quality version of this video available?

[actron]

@namfoodler I cant sell this, both the song and the movie are under copyright. I just cut pieces of the film to fit the music.

[Dk2601]

@actron the quality while not being perfect is perfect for this if ya get me....fuckin awesome upload and job well done..cheers!

[morty13pao]

"Wizards' Ralph Bakshi.

[anarchy4sale]

This was a great movie,everything was well put together its amazing,i love it.

[ThomasSavesorDie76]

where can I get that animaton? AMON DUUL II RULES

[Israfvel]

You'd have to help me here. Is this the original Amon Duul? Or is this ADII?

[PAULLONDEN]

Amon DüüL....a post war generation,

exorcising some powerful demons.

Wagnerian.........♫

[jocksilver7]

I just wonder whose birth this song is all about..rrhhuuhhmm...rrrhuuhhmm­..mein general...general...!

[klippspringer]

birth is somewhere in the head of olaf kübler, who was 8, when ww2 ended.

you can imagine a lot with this song, and even the members of amon düül have a very different view to this one.

[jocksilver7]

Of course they couldn't, but the guy who remembered to cross the sound over the images sure deserves an Oscar. His sense of aesthetics equals his dark sense of humour. Congratulations! (Lina Baby Doll, was that you?)... and Hail AMON Düül 2 for all eternity!

[nerb63]

amon duul 2 what a fucking great band did nt know they made music video s in the early 70,s

[Zuhzuhzombie]

They didn't. This is a scene from the film Wizards.

[jbmaynar]

that's what i thought

[remindbender]

UT:-OPIA version:

girls talk...on the think...in the kiTTchen...

"no body & no one (single azz hole)

will put me down sister"

& schön gruss an die tortenschma(rrrotz)zenden6 tibeter rolf

(ach das waren/sind ja nur 5 in dein' fall/=rhein phall)

wir connaisseure - wir sitzen alle im elben boot!

[Zuhzuhzombie]

I think the female on the UTOPIA version is Renate Knaup.

[remindbender]

female voice is renate. thats correct. male voice on otopia is meant to be rolf zacher hehe ...one ov thee blackest sheep amongst thee germen actors ;-))

[GothmogtheBalrog]

unbelivieable video....

[Drizzlerman]

that animation looks sick, I need to see the film.

[crosak]

Translation:

A general stood at my crib and said,

This is a beatiful child!

He will become the type of man I love

Governor maybe, in German Nepal

I was born in the land of warriors

I strive, I strive to be a hero

Alas, the victories they still elude me

Perhaps mistaken was he, the general, general, general...

[triumphelf]

some of the Pic's are from the Movie -FIRE AND ICE,or Wizards good Movies..

[actron]

Actually, just from Wizards.

[TheHulk1942]

bonne musique

[Aueneye]

Looks like LOTR meets Yellow Submarine.

[iambadd]

Doesnt sound like lina baby doll :x

[Perstorp]

The animation is from 'Lord of the rings' (1978).

[actron]

Negative. The animation is from the movie 'Wizards".

[Perstorp]

'Wizards', of ourse...my bad! And when will THAT one ever see its DVD premiere...?!? Love it...

[actron]

I bought it on DVD. Thats where got the source material for this video. And the music is Amon Duul 2 song from the Wolf City album.

[Perstorp]

Nope, it's from'Wizards', another great Ralph Bakshi movie...

[OSAMHSAAD2]

كل زق وانطم ياحقيرترجم عربي ياكلب نذل

[sompun]

Nepal is the land of warriors, german wants to place its general in land of warrior( conquer nepal) but fears that they will be defeated. nepal and german(west german) had a great relationship of friendship during 1980's

[1howda]

YEah Nepal \ m / hami Nepali

[ThePoisonDoor]

Superb, nicely editing and choice of song :)

[Superhaze]

Nice video, and classic music. Great work.

[fatmaccam]

classic!

[atonsolaris]

One of my favourite Amon Düül II songs, along with "Dem Guten, Schonen, Wahren" from Phallus Dei. The animation fits perfectly!

Keep it up with the great videos.

[roarvis]

This is brilliant. I'm a fan of both the film Wizards and Amon Duul II, and it doesn't even seem like you re-edited them. Nice job!

[ploermel56490]

I Love this song, I remember that I first heard it in 1973 or something like that (I was 15 years old at the time) . Now I like to play the main riff on my guitar.

[SetoBaagh]

the song is cool but i cant find any thing thats got to do with Nepal

[RBenham]

The translations offered above are all crap. Here's a better one: "A general was standing at my cradle, Said, 'He's a fine child; He'll be a man after my own heart: Maybe Governor of German Nepal.' I was born in the land of warriors*; Try very hard to be a hero, But the victories are a long time coming. Maybe the general was wrong." *This word sounds more like "Kriege" (wars) than "Krieger" (warriors) in the Wolf City version, but is "Krieger" in Utopia. Coughing etc. omitted.

[thebadking7]

cool animation

[kyleinstereo]

There's no such thing?

[Nepelese007]

Is this an insult 2 nepal?

[7777777mike]

No - it is a kind of mockery of German megalomania , just read the other comments below...

[ToxFox]

who would bother insulting nepal???

[lucypunch]

No but you are!

[GPurevdorj2]

I wonder why you asked in the first place. If you don't know German and if you don't read any slanderous commentary (which you seem not to have read at all), why assume that a song "on" Nepal might be anti-nepalese?

[luxOculta]

this is really cool,man.

looks like a nightmare,and music goes well,but in my nightmares is more classical music.

[groovingsoul]

Why Nepal? I couldn't see any Connection.Did I got lost in Translation? coz I'm from Nepal so I'm just wondering so Is it possible to enlighten

me? No hard feeling,Though.

[monel44]

Amon Duul II were leftists and this is an ironic comment on German expansionist ideology...

[locarnos1]

Why Nepal? That's exactly the point of the song:in fact, there is no connection between Germany and Nepal.But in the "schizoid" mind of a nationalist, his country should own everything everywhere, even Nepal, that lies thousands of miles away from Europe.The usage of Nepal is just symbolic, and the song stands as an excellent irony of this way of thinking.

[cemede]

schizoid is a mental illnes, is not a character flaw. It is an illness; just as diabetes, cancer and glandular fever are illnesses. A person suffering from a mental illness is not lazy for simply not "snapping out of it" or "cheering up", just as with any illness help and support is required to overcome mental illness.

[locarnos1]

Schizophrenia is a mental illness.

Baking human beings in the oven is mental illness, not a "character flaw".

[cemede]

Are schizophrenics demons?

People like you they do that the mental patients could not join our society. Those that they cook people in the ovens are not mental patients, are healthy demons.

[locarnos1]

You 've started an argument about mental illness, which is irrelevant to the subject of the song meaning,without even noticing that, in my first comment, I used the word "schizoid" with inverted 

commas,that is to say not literaly.And now you're accusing me of things and opinions I didn't say.

[groovingsoul]

Thank you locarnos1 for your opinion and explanation.

[atonsolaris]

Very good explanation.

[jormunjand]

@locarnos1

hi

Actually yes theres is connection the nazi tought that they were decendes af the atlants the aryan atlants and after the flood anf atlantida that was a global flood the altants landed in nepal and the was the cradle of the aryan civilization actually they studied the nepal people as somehow ancestors of the german. so that why german nepal hahah din it in wikipedia sound crazy buts true

[locarnos1]

@jormunjand

I stand corrected! Thank you for the information.

[Cellvar]

@locarnos1

Close your trap, you useless Greek Communist mongrel.

[hothaggis1]

@locarnos1 "Excellent irony" indeed, it's what they were all about (listen to Made in Germany, not their best but....) Also very weird/very Amon Duul. They aren't Nazi, in fact about as far as you can get from it, from a weird creative post war "German scene" including, (on the fringe anyway), Baader & Meinhof

[Kryp2ni8]

@locarnos1 Maybe because at that time the best Haschisch came from Nepal . . ;-)

[remindbender]

@Kryp2ni8 "kriegen"...still (be)coming...is the highest mountain of nomad'n'ess!

[Birkenspanner]

hä?

[Tareltonlives]

I take it Ralph Bakshi slept with a copy of "Alexander Nevski" under his pillow

[Kohntarkosz]

That's footage from Bakshi's 1977 opus Wizards. HE used rotoscope techniques, using footage from Alexander Nevski.

[EkBalam707]

What is the German preach translation to Spanisch and/or Englisch ?

[SchwarzesPCSchaf]

well, here at least the English translation:

A general stood by my cradle,

Spoke: It is a nice child.

It's going to be a man how I like him,

Governour maybe, in German Nepal. *cough*

I was born in the land of warriors *harrumph* warriors.

(I) strive *harrumph* strive to be a hero. *cough*

But the victories are a long time coming coming *harrumph, cough*

Maybe the general was mistaken... *harrumph*

Geberal (5x)

[PAULLONDEN]

Thanks BLACKPC, this is almost WAGNERIAN.

[HaxoAngmark]

Thank you for posting the translation! I've been wondering about it ever since I first heard this circa 1971. I speak halfway-decent German, but misheard some of the words, for example "Governour" as "wer war nur" (who was just) and "Krieger" (warrior)as "Friede" (peace). Your way makes much more sense.

[Dirtfire]

This footage is from the Ralph Bakshi movie 'Wizards', btw, which was pretty good.

[fudskelf]

I always thought it was a drug reference. Nepalese Hashish - Deutsch Nepal - German Dope.

[MOKSHAKIRI]

LOTHAR MEID IS THE KING!

[GLACIER187]

who is lothar meid?

[loungegizzard]

Whoa- this triggered a delightful flasdhback!

Thank you- and thanx to Amon Duul II

-Amen

[Lolerblade]

sweet animation nice style

[sushimasta28]

this video is fucking great!

[BaldJean]

And Nepal is a region in the Himalaya. "Deutsch-Nepal" is a fiction though; Germany never had a colony there. Maybe a usurper's dream of the general.

[BaldJean]

Kyleinstereo almost gave the lyrics correctly, only it is "Es wird ein Mann" and not "Es wird mein Mann"

[streissel]

genial, j aimerais connaitre d autre groupe dans ce style.

[ac2kk]

Gong, Magma, Tangerine Dream, Soft Machine, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Aphrodite's Child, Caravan, Yes, The Moody Blues, Gentle Giant... (Chroniques du rock Progressif, Frédéric Delage, éditions "la Lauze"). Ya pad Koi camarade !

[olabergvall]

Grobschnitt, Nektar, Eloy, Egg, also try UK, King Crimson, and England.

[phantom260]

who here is nepali? i am anyone else?

[catchersmitt0]

I'm not Nepali.  Tara ma bhasa bolchu. Ali ali.

[phantom260]

what r u then ? =D

[suballica]

thanks for speaking nepali..tapai kaha bata ho..wo sind Sie aus?

[fraGGion]

Wolf City ©1972 , Danke pernyesz !!

[fraterwolf]

the Animation is from a VERY GOOD movie called WIZARDS

[1human]

I knew I'd seen this somewhere before...

just couldn't think of the name.Thnx

[gilletouze]

Someone can translate the lyrics in english or french please ?

[pernyesz]

a general sat on my cradle said: "he is a beuatiful child he is going to be a man, as i love him, governor, maybe, in deutsch nepal!" i was born in the land of warriors, ah..warriors i´ll take great pains to be a hero but the victory-ah is to be waited, ah- waited! maybe the general was whrong general, general, general!

[JilutheFang]

Bah! Ich hasse Hitler!

[plhanc]

I thought the animation came from a 70's cartoon version of "Lord of the rings". A brave venture that just about got 1/3 of the way through. Unlike contemporaries Hawkwind, AD, despite line up changes, are the same excellent proggers as always. I saw them in London last year.

[kyleinstereo]

Ein General stand an meiner Wiege, Sprach: «Es ist ein schönes Kind Es wird mein Mann, Wie ich ihn liebe, Gouverneur vielleicht, in Deutsch Nepal!» Ich bin geboren Im Land der Krieger, äh - Krieger, Bemühe mich Ein Held zu sein. Doch die Siege - äh - Lassen auf sich warten, äh - warten! Vielleicht irrte sich der General - General - General!

[HeidiLoveUall]

KRAUTROcK!!! i love Amon Düül 2 but this is a little weird...?

[rossidavid]

Wie geil!Das ist ja die,TORMUSIK vom VfB Stuttgart!

[glitchplayer1]

Great vid & song. Thanks for posting it.

[zverraban]

Rotoscoping of Alexander Nevsky, but quite interesting

[breeeegs]

isn't that plagiarism, then?

[zverraban]

I don't know. Maybe. But artistic signature of R. Bakshi is reckognizible. Rotoscoping use animation over existing movie shot, by projection of frame on special table. So artist on rotoscopy (animator) have artistic freedom to change or adapt frame (and movie) depending of his inspiration and make maybe new piece of art.

[zverraban]

Of course, I've only seen Lord of the Rings by R. Bakshi, but the same idea is present in both (this video and LOTR)

[xnerdxbomberx]

All of this animation is from the movie Wizards.

[actron]

Yes it is.zverraban was refering to source material that R.B. used in creating the rotoscoped portion of the film.

[sund7cuU]

Here's some trivia--in the movie Wizards, some of the scenes of the armies on horseback were taken from the film Alexander Nevsky and then rotoscoped. I watched Nevsky recently and because I have Wizards memorized I was able to recognize some of the footage. Except the guys in the original didn't have bat wings lol.

[breeeegs]

yeah me too

btw the song and vid are hypnotic

[breeeegs]

Surely one of the coolest-sounding songs I have ever heard.

[earthiansamantha]

WHATT?? wut's da sng bout damnn. i aint no german cmn this does not make sense at all.*_*

[actron]

huh?

[breeeegs]

Some of this is rotoscoped footage from "Alexander Nevsky", isn't it? I realized that after watching some scenes from the movie and realizing that they had been incorporated into this video. Did Bakshi do this for one of his films, or something?

[emirb17sa]

It is a reference to WWII plan and Nazi ideology for Germans to conquer the world, Nepal is a symbol of that since its so far and exotic. Although they dont promote Nazi ideology, they instead ridicule it in a artistic way. As u can tell the song is sort of militaristic, but its a artistic statement.

[cntrft]

thanks for the video, it's my all-time favourite song from amon düül II! though, i must say that version featured on "the ua years: 1969-1974" compilation has definitely better (insane!) vocals.

[nanamigurung]

Hi!im from nepal. and i wonder why this band relates itself with Nepal.did deustch had any relations with deutsch?

[eotunun]

Great instrumental part, but it sounds like Kermit the frog at the Reichswehrmacht. I couldn´t help but laugh out loud.

[fleetwoodlad]

Any german speaking people explain what the lyrics are about ?

Always wanted to know..

[eotunun]

I short: beginds with "A general stood at my cradle..", then tells about the life in a warloving culture and big promisses to make the warrior do what he´s expected to, but the great expectations don´t get fullfilled, he doesn´t become governor of german Nepal. Brief version

[rossidavid]

Great Stuff!

[anuday]

Amon Duul was a commune of artists and musicians, the artists became Amon Duul I, the musicians Amon Duul II

[breeeegs]

can someone please post the lyrics in the original German? I would really appreciate it! thankx

[kyleinstereo]

Ein General stand an meiner Wiege, Sprach: «Es ist ein schönes Kind Es wird mein Mann, Wie ich ihn liebe, Gouverneur vielleicht, in Deutsch Nepal!» Ich bin geboren Im Land der Krieger, äh - Krieger, Bemühe mich Ein Held zu sein. Doch die Siege - äh - Lassen auf sich warten, äh - warten! Vielleicht irrte sich der General - General - General!

[breeeegs]

wow! thats really cool, thanx!

[meltecal]

well done. big AD2 fan in the 70s.

[Absinthus]

Wonderful, just wonderful!

[spaceorbison]

Is the music part of the film or was it inserted seperately?

[kyleinstereo]

Seperately.

Its a song called Deutsch Nepal by Amon Duul II. Proto Doom.

[notautomatt]

It's from the movie WIZARDS

[blacksurt66623]

Outstanding!!

[azdamian]

Can someone post something from the movie Heavy Metal and also it would be amazing if somone could post something from American Pop - the part where the song Night Moves is played is really amazing. Bakshi's stuff is so good. Wizards was one of my favorite movies growing up in the late 70's - i remember my Dad took me to the theater to see it.

[spiritfree]

Amazing video!

Deutsch Nepal is on Wolf City. And also... it's on Utopia, which is now listed as an Amon Duul album, though originally it wasn't. Wolf City is a great album. Utopia is a bit jazzy.

[MarkP0rter]

so is it Amon Duul or Amon Duul II?

[RantovRizzia]

Amon Duul II definitely. From their 1973 album Wolf City.

[slosberg]

What Amon Duul album is this from?

[actron]

Wolf City

[claux23]

It's interesting in that the words spoken in this video are uttered by a different voice, and in a different intonation, than those in the original song. Perhaps the producer was trying to make a point.

[actron]

Actually, I used the original recording from the album Wolf City to make this video.I don't know of any other recordings of this song in existence.

[klippspringer]

no, this one is the original version from the lp wolf city.

perhaps you heard the alternate from the lp utopia first, which had a different lineup and was made, when the band broke the second from many else times later.

[Syntox]

Sorry...it IS Fire and Ice...my bad!

[actron]

Nope, neither of those.It's from a feature animation called "Wizards" which Ralph Bakshi wrote as well as animated.I synched clips from it more or less to this song by Amon Duul which seem to fit.

[EmperorOfTheUSA]

sorry wrong again its Wizards, and i love the movie, i have it on dvd

[Syntox]

I'm pretty sure this clip is Lord of the Rings...and I have also heard a version of this song where the voice is more high pitched!

[LazerFish]

It's from the move called "Wizards" which was animated by Ralph Bakshi, the same guy who did the LotR cartoon

[spaceorbison]

This is WIZARDS not LoTR.

[baashish]

did the germans ever colonize nepal????

[Sturmgeweiht]

The SS had great interest in that zone, in those times...

[breeeegs]

what is the nazi footage all about?

[klippspringer]

no, they only colonized the gdr ;-) this fictive story goes like this : a general stood beneath my cradle. says : it is a beautiful child he becomes a man, how i love him i was born in the land of the warriors maybe gouvernor in german nepal i was born in the land of warriors endeavour myself to be a hero but the victories keep waiting for maybe the general was wrong

[klippspringer]

oops

i didnt notice kalliya did it first ;-)

[breeeegs]

great, now that we have the lyrics in English, lets have them in German!

[tullist]

Thanks to Kalliyah for translating this rant. It used to haunt me back about 73. That throat clearing particularly unsettling. Though knowing what that guy is saying does decrease the forboding. The Nazi clips have rarely been seen to better effect.

[GaaraMonster]

I remember that movie. :) I really liked it.

[thespanishdon]

Amazing video. Animation is perfect. Great ambience!

[lakserefreng]

Can someone translate the words spoken in german? and/or tell med what's going on in this video?

[KALLIYAH]

A general stood at my cradle

And he said, "he´s a beautiful child

He´ll become a man, how i love him

Governor perhaps, of German - Nepal

I was born in the land of warriors

Eh- warriors

i must try to be a hero

But the victories -eh- let them wait, eh - wait

perhaps he was wrong

The general -general- general

[vidstarr]

I thought it was 'Lord of the Rings' at first and then I saw the Evil wizard from the other Banshki movie called 'Wizards'. I'm not sure if it's that same movie, though it is intresting to see it in colour. The version I have is for Canadian television would be in colour on a Canadian telelvision, but I'm in Australia.

[breeeegs]

I am quite fond of Bakshi's version of "The Lord of the Rings". I saw it some years back, and i thought it was surprisingly successful at capturing the overall atmosphere of the book. Too bad its so undderated, tho.

[breeeegs]

this clip haunts me

[breeeegs]

COOL!

[Marcman2020]

I've always loved Bakshi's animation, and this was a real treat for me

[blaed]

Bakshi's best rotoscoped work is definetly Fire and Ice! In callaboration with Frank Frazetta, they were a formidable duo.

[FlippytheSkinhead]

Freaking sweet animation!

Rotorvision (I believe that's the style) is a lost art. 

[actron]

True, its just not the same when done digitally.Ralph Bakshi mastered it, to me anyway.

[groovey24]

when i took classical animation in 1992 we called it rotoscoping... bakshi was the master!!! anyone have a copy of wizards by chance?

[brazjol]

Kick ass song, kick ass video

[kejourbman]

thats the best music video ive ever seen

speechless

[znathanson]

Best Video, I love the music! perfect match between AMON DUUL and Bakshi (alternate soundtrack for Wizards)

[gilgamorph]

myspace.com/gilgamorph

evolvemusica.com

[breeeegs]

what will I find there?