Two hippies,
the Canadian Dolly Holmes and Maik Hirschfeldt from Germany, met in
London in 1970. Together they went to Berlin to perform in the musical
Hair. Emtidi was founded and the duo started to play the underground
clubs of the city. Their repertoire consisted of traditional acoustic
folk music. Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser, later owner of the labels Ohr and
Kosmische Kuriere, heard them play and offered a record contract. The
possibilities of multi-track recording enabled the duo to expand their
musical style on Saat. The album is a sadly little-known masterpiece -- a
unique mix of folk, art rock, and psychedelic. First album's first side
contains fragile naive acid folk, the second side is quiet good with
also a more stoned track, "Let the joint go round", a dreamy track,
"Yvonne's Dream" and a nice longer "flutepiece". Their second album,
"Saat" with lots of mellotron, a prog item with pastoral folk feel is a
classic. Unfortunately Dolly Holmes soon left the band and went back to
Canada. Maik Hirschfeldt moved to a village near Munich and formed a new
lineup with Rudi Haunreiter, Georg Karger, and Franz Müller. Although
they worked on material for an unreleased third LP for some years, they
never did a gig again and finally disbanded because they never found a
suitable substitute for Dolly Holmes. Maik Hirschfeldt quit the music
scene; the other musicians founded the jazz-rock band Niagara and are
still active in various jazz bands. Rudi Haunreiter later played the
drums on some albums of dark, ambient synthesist Peter Frohmader. Maik
Hirschfeldt organizes rallies in Africa and only sometimes plays guitar
just for fun. Line-up / Musicians Dolly Holmes/guitar,bouzouki,kazoo,keyboards,organ,Mellotron,vocals Maik Hirschfeldt/guitar,flute,bass,synthesizer,vibraphone,percussion,vocals Discography Emtidi 1970
1.Lookin' for People 2.Shadow on Your Face 3.Long Long Journey 4.No Turn Back 5.Space Age 6.Let the Joint go 'round 7.Yvonne's Dream 8.Birds on a Graveyard 9.Flutepiece Saat 1972
1.Walkin' in the Park 2.Träume 3.Touch the Sun 4.Love Time Rain 5.Saat 6.Die Reise
