Cyclopean is the collaboration from Burnt Friedman, Jono Podmore...
Cyclopean is the collaboration from Burnt Friedman, Jono Podmore & Can founding members Jaki Liebezeit, + Irmin Schmidt.
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Cyclopean is the collaboration from Burnt Friedman, Jono Podmore & Can founding members Jaki Liebezeit, + Irmin Schmidt.
Read MoreSomewhere along the line, German producer Bernd Friedmann picked up enough English to realise that there was a truly abysmal English language pun to be made using his name.
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Last weekend Stephen Malkmus honored the impact the record had on his musical upbringing by performing the record in full at the Week-End Fest in Cologne, Germany.
Read MoreThe group known as Can is one of absolutely indispensible names to emerge from the well-celebrated Krautrock style, but for quite a while the specifics of their rep were solidly ensconced and pretty much unchanging.
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Indeed, jamming was at the heart of pretty much everything the legendary krautrockers did.
Read MoreOh yeah, lovers of legendary Krautrockers CAN were hoping for this one.
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It's a testament to how far out Can 's music still seems, over 30 years after the band originally split, that we try to understand it not by looking for musical answers, but by clinging to fantastical suppositions.
Read MoreReviewing a Can album is like trying to describe the very first time you heard the Velvet Underground, or explaining what a truly superb pizza tastes like as it dissolves onto your tongue -- attempting to verbalize it just feels straight up contrived.
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Born of an era where every day seemed to represent a new epoch, the collective seized upon the twin possibilities of rock music and the avant garde.
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Fifteen, twenty years ago, it would have been natural to respond to The Lost Tapes not just with astounded applause but with a rather lofty prescription: any group could learn a lot from close, repeated listening.
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Can have always been a little cagey about what is and isn't in their vaults.
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Apart from being celebrated for spearheading the late '60s/early '70s outpouring of experimental, more or less rock-orientated music from Germany, usually bundled under the unflattering "krautrock" umbrella, Can were renowned for a work ethic that made most of their contemporaries seem positively lethargic.
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As previously reported , legendary Krautrock outfit Can will will release their new compilation, The Lost Tapes , on June 19th through Mute Records.
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Three CDs of rehearsal tapes, live recordings, studio jams and forgotten soundtracks might, in the case of most bands, seem like an overwhelming, most likely futile, indulgence.
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Don Van Vliet – the late singer-composer-provocateur known as Captain Beefheart – was recovering from the deepest nadir of his musical life, two mid-Seventies albums of straight-line rock and sugar-rhyme ballads, when he hit another: the 36-year exile of his comeback shot, Bat Chain Puller (Vaulternative).
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Read part three of Kris Needs Fifty Outiders list for Clash magazine's Outsider issue with appearances by George Clinton, Can, Suicide, Patti Smith and more. 21.
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A month shy of his 75th birthday, German keyboardist Irmin Schmidt is old enough to have lived through World War II.
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Arriving on June 18th, 2012, is the long awaited release of the ultra influential Can 's The Lost Tapes featuring tracks from 1968-1977, in a three CD box set.
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We spoke with Irmin Schmidt about the discovery of The Lost Tapes, the future of music production, and the formation of CAN.
Read MoreIt's an awful nice feeling when people in the music industry treat me like I'm a legitimate journalist.
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Unreleased material from iconic German group Can will be collected on a new 3-CD collection.
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A collection of previously unreleased recordings from the seminal krautrock band Can will be released via Mute on June 19 in the U.S. and June 18 in Europe.
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David Sylvian 's voice bears such a calmly forceful cadence, full of carefully enunciated words that trail off into a pristine nasal murmur, that he can dart between genres and surface with music positioned resolutely in his own sound world.
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Can have long been one of those bands that are more talked about than heard.
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Looking for something or someone to blame for encouraging you to shell out some of your hard-earned for, say, Guru Guru's sludgy blues-rock?
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Smoking (Drowned in Sound in no way endorses the view that smoking is cool).
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The castle discovered with the excavation rectangular four bay window towers was 25 metres about 11 times and had a kennel offshore to the north.
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It's a collaboration that would not be believed until you literally saw it printed on the record, but in 1983 Jah Wobble (Public Image Ltd., Holger (Can) and The Edge (U2) came together to release the mini-LP 'Snake Charmer'. The album sank despite input from other luminaries such as Jaki Liebezeit (also of Can), and production from the iconic Paradise Garage DJ, François Kevorkian.
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The new edition of this genre-defying album comes packaged in the original UK artwork for the first time since 1971, and includes a bonus CD featuring 50 minutes of unreleased live material from 1972, remastered in 2011.
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Cologne had been the birthplace of electronic music, its womb, its matrix; and Stockhausen's Gesang der Jünglinge , realised at the studios of the Nord-West Deutscher Rundfunk in the mid-fifties, was its first acknowledged masterpiece.
Read MoreWell, this was one of the most bizarre albums I have covered lately.
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