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Anthology (Can Album)
''Anthology'', also called ''Anthology - 25 Years'' and ''Anthology 1968-1993'', is a compilation double album by Krautrock artists Can which was released in 1994. Several of the songs are presented in edited form. The first CD has the same track listing as Can's previous compilation, ''Cannibalism''. Track listing N.B. the re-edits on Disc One were originally done for the compilation ''Cannibalism'' in 1978. (*) The 2007 Remastered Edition uses the album versions for "Dizzy Dizzy", "Aspectacle" and "Below This Level" instead of the edits used on the 1994 compilation. Personnel *Holger Czukay – bass guitar (1968-1976, 1989), wave receiver & spec. sounds (1977), editing (1979), vocals *Michael Karoli – guitar, electric violin, vocals *Jaki Liebezeit – drums, percussion, vocals *Irmin Schmidt – keyboards, vocals * Malcolm Mooney – vocals (1968-1970, 1989-1991) * Damo Suzuki – vocals, percussion (1970-1973) *Rosko Gee – bass, vocals (1977-1979) *Rebop Kwaku Baah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compilation Album
A compilation album comprises Album#Tracks, tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several Performing arts#Performers, performers. If by one artist, then generally the tracks were not originally intended for release together as a single work, but may be collected together as a greatest hits album or box set. If from several performers, there may be a theme, topic, time period, or genre which links the tracks, or they may have been intended for release as a single work—such as a tribute album. When the tracks are by the same recording artist, the album may be referred to as a retrospective album or an anthology. Content and scope Songs included on a compilation album may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers. If by one artist, then generally the tracks were not originally intended for release together as a single work, but may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mother Sky
"Mother Sky" is a song by the krautrock group Can, written by members Holger Czukay, Jaki Liebezeit, Michael Karoli, Irmin Schmidt, and Damo Suzuki. Lasting fourteen and a half minutes, it was recorded in July 1970 for the soundtrack of Jerzy Skolimowski's film '' Deep End'' and released in 1970 on Can's ''Soundtracks'' album. It opens in mid guitar solo before settling down into a familiar Can groove as singer Damo Suzuki mulls the relative merits of madness and "Mother Sky". "Mother Sky" was covered by the UK band Loop for their ''Black Sun'' 12" in 1988.Strong, Martin C. (1999) "The Great Alternative & Indie Discography", Canongate, Th' Faith Healers Th' Faith Healers were an English indie rock band who were originally active between 1990 and 1994. The members of the group were Roxanne Stephen (vocals), Tom Cullinan (guitar and vocals), Ben Hopkin (bass), and Joe Dilworth (drums). They rec ... included a version on their debut album ''Lido'' in 1992.Wittmershaus, EricCa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Future Days
''Future Days'' is the fourth studio album by the German experimental rock group Can, released in 1973. It was the last Can album to feature Japanese vocalist Damo Suzuki, and sees the band exploring a more atmospheric sound than their previous releases. Content Music On ''Future Days'', Can foregrounds the ambient elements they had explored on previous albums, dispensing largely with traditional rock song structures and instead "creating hazy, expansive soundscapes dominated by percolating rhythms and evocative layers of keys". ''PopMatters'' wrote that "It feels as if ''Future Days'' is driven by a coastal breeze, exuding a more pleasant, relaxed mood than anything the band had previously recorded." Artwork The album cover shows a Psi sign in the middle (drawn in the same style as the font used for the cover) and the I Ching symbol ding/the cauldron below the title. The surrounding graphics are based on the Jugendstil artstyle. Some versions of the vinyl album have a slight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moonshake (song)
"Moonshake" is a song by the krautrock band Can, on their 1973 album ''Future Days''. Unusually for this album, known for its ambient, lengthy tracks, the song is short and has a pop structure, and was released as a single. The band Moonshake Moonshake were a British-based experimental rock/post-rock band, existing between 1991 and 1997. The only consistent member was singer/sampler player/occasional guitarist David Callahan, who initially co-led the project with Margaret Fiedler ( ... takes its name from this song. References 1973 songs Psychedelic songs Can (band) songs {{1970s-song-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landed (album)
''Landed'' is the sixth studio album by the German krautrock band Can (band), Can. Recording and production ''Landed'' was recorded in 1975 at Inner Space Studios in Weilerswist, near Cologne. Holger Czukay engineered the recording and mixed side B at Inner Space. He teamed with Toby_Hrycek-Robinson, Toby Robinson to mix side A at Studio Dierks in Stommeln. René Tinner assisted with the mix for both sides. The album was produced by the band themselves and included the single "Hunters and Collectors" (backed by "Vernal Equinox"), which was issued on Virgin that same year. Reception Dominique Leone reviewed the album for ''Pitchfork (website), Pitchfork'' in 2005. Musician Barry Adamson included the album in a list of his 13 favorite albums. Australian rock band Hunters & Collectors took their name from the song of the same title. Track listing Notes Personnel Can *Holger Czukay – bass, vocals on "Full Moon on the Highway" *Michael Karoli – guitar, violin, lead voca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unlimited Edition (album)
''Unlimited Edition'' is a compilation album by the band Can. Released in 1976 as a double album, it was an expanded version of the 1974 LP ''Limited Edition'' on United Artists Records which, as the name suggests, was a limited release of 15,000 copies (tracks 14–19 were added). The album collects unreleased music from throughout the band's history from 1968 until 1976, and both the band's major singers (Damo Suzuki and Malcolm Mooney) are featured. The cover photos were taken among the Elgin Marbles in the Duveen Gallery of the British Museum. Track notes The abbreviation "E.F.S.", appearing in several of the track titles, refers to ''Ethnological Forgery Series'', a series of songs in which Can self-consciously imitated various "world music" genres. "Mother Upduff" is a retelling of an urban legend involving a family whose grandmother dies while they are on holiday together, and whose corpse – left wrapped up on the roof of the family car – is later stolen along w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delay 1968
''Delay 1968'', or just ''Delay'' (as the Super Audio CD, SACD version is titled), is an archival compilation album by German experimental rock band Can (band), Can during its work with singer Malcolm Mooney comprising previously unissued early recordings of the band's rejected debut album, ''Prepared to Meet Thy PNOOM''. The song "Thief" had previously been released officially (in a longer edit) on the United Artists Records, United Artists compilation album ''Electric Rock'' in 1970; it was later covered live by Radiohead. Holger Czukay has said that ''Delay 1968'' was originally intended to be the band's first album, ''Prepared to Meet Thy PNOOM'' ("Pnoom" being the name of the album's second track—a 27-second saxophone instrumental, recorded as part of their ''Ethnological Forgery Series''). When no record company would release the record, Can set out to make a somewhat more accessible album, which became their 1969 debut ''Monster Movie (Can album), Monster Movie''. Parts o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoo Doo Right
"Yoo Doo Right" is a song on Can (band), Can's 1969 debut album, ''Monster Movie (Can album), Monster Movie'', which had been edited down from a six-hour improvisation to a mere twenty minutes. The song features a pounding, tribal-influenced rhythm section throughout, along with singer Malcolm Mooney repeatedly reading excerpts from a love letter in an almost mantra-like manner. Can continued to play the song after Mooney's departure, as heard on the ''Can Live'' album. It has been cover song, covered in abbreviated form by the Geraldine Fibbers, Thin White Rope, Masaki Batoh, Susheela Raman, Jonathan Segel, The Wendys and others. In 2001, shortly after the death of Can's guitarist Michael Karoli, a group of musicians associated with the Austrian composer Karlheinz Essl performed this song in several hour-long concerts in his memory. The song was remixed by 3p for the double remix compilation Sacrilege (album), Sacrilege in 1997, reduced to a three-minute, verse-chorus-bridge pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soon Over Babaluma
''Soon Over Babaluma'' is the fifth studio album by the rock music group Can. This is the band's first album following the departure of Damo Suzuki in 1973. The vocals are provided by guitarist Michael Karoli and keyboardist Irmin Schmidt. It is also their last album that was created using a two-track tape recorder. It takes the ambient style of ''Future Days'' and pushes it even further at times, as on "Quantum Physics", although there are also some upbeat tracks, such as "Chain Reaction" and "Dizzy Dizzy". Reception American musician Dominique Leone reviewed ''Soon Over Babaluma'' for ''Pitchfork'', writing that he "was constantly surprised at how clear everything sounded, as if the band had recorded all of this stuff in one fell swoop during an unbelievably inspired, marathon session. One of the great things about Can ... was the attention to detail and realization that the effect of each tiny moment in the course of a song can affect the momentum of the entire piece. No smal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan Fallowell
Duncan Fallowell (born 1948) is an English novelist, travel writer, memoirist, journalist and critic. Early life Fallowell was born on 26 September 1948 in London. His family later moved to Somerset and Essex before settling in Berkshire. While at St Paul's School, London, he established a friendship with John Betjeman, and through him, links to literary London. In 1967 he went to Magdalen College, Oxford (BA and MA in History). At the university he was a pupil of Karl Leyser, Hugh Trevor-Roper, and Howard Colvin. He was also part of a group experimenting with psychedelic drugs. While an undergraduate he became a friend of April Ashley, whose biography he later wrote. Career In 1970, at the age of 21, Fallowell was given a pop column in ''The Spectator''. He was subsequently the magazine's film critic and fiction critic. During the 1970s he travelled in Europe, India and the Far East, collaborated on the punk glossies ''Deluxe'' and'' Boulevard''; was a reviewer for the now-defu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halleluhwah
"Halleluwah" (alternatively titled "Halleluhwah" on some post-1989 releases) is a song by the krautrock band Can, from their 1971 album ''Tago Mago''. The track, which originally took up a whole side of long-playing vinyl record, lasts for 18 minutes and 28 seconds and is characteristic of the band's sound around 1971 in that it features a vast array of improvised guitars and keyboards, tape editing, and the rhythm section "pounding out a monster trance/funk beat". The drum beat for which the song is famous is repeated almost continuously by Jaki Liebezeit, with only minor variations, throughout the course of the 18-minute jam. In one line of the song, Damo Suzuki's lyrics mention all the songs from side one of ''Tago Mago'': " mushroom head, oh yeah, paper house." The original UK pressing of ''Tago Mago'' misprinted the song's title as "Hallelujah" both on the LP's center label and on the back flap of the album jacket. Other versions A much shorter version of the song appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spoon (Can Song)
"Spoon" is a song by krautrock group Can, recorded in 1971. It was originally released as a single with the song "Shikako Maru Ten" on the B-side. "Spoon" also appeared as the final track to the band's album ''Ege Bamyasi'' later that year. The song marked Can's first recorded use of drum machine coupled with live drums, an unusual feature in popular music at the time. The single reached #6 on the German chart in early 1972 due to being the signature theme of the popular German television thriller ''Das Messer'' (after Francis Durbridge). The single sold in excess of 300,000 copies. Due to the single's success, Can played a free concert at Kölner Sporthalle in Cologne on February 3, 1972. "Spoon" was featured in Lynne Ramsay's 2004 film adaptation of '' Morvern Callar''. American indie rock band Spoon took their name from this song, and Can themselves used the name for their own record label Spoon Records. "Spoon" was remixed by both Sonic Youth and System 7 for Can's 1997 re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |