1973 Orig CAN FUTURE DAYS Krautrock Prog Psych DAMO

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1973 SOUGHT ORIGINAL PROG PSYCH KRAUTROCK CLASSIC           

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           FUTURE DAYS

\                                                        USA - United Artists - LA 213

Original 1973  (minty) vinyl pressing of classic & legendary Kraut-psych crew in their peak ... one flowing smooth trancy groove if there ever was....

In staunch contrast to the wired "Pinch" which opened up their last album, the title track that begins this effort is like walking along a beach with waves of liquid trazodone lapping under your feet. Sedated Damo Suzuki croons muffled vocals and Jaki Liebezeit provides a gentle, calypso shuffle sliding against a mincing generator rhythm and Schmidt's barely audible polyphonic synths. The music softly builds in volume to a melodic climax, then cedes into the distance.

"Spray" picks up the pace and edge, with much of the track given to the inimitable chunk-chunk interlocking of Czukay's bass and Liebezeit's daunting polyrhythmic activity, combined with the psychedelic squiggles of Schmidt's organ. Yet the overall nature remains open and expansive.

Despite its title, "Moonshake" actually provides a brief, earthier break, with beat and vocals largely harkening back to the band's previous two albums. But before they allow you to get too used to it, the band soon catapults you back into the clouds with "Bel Air."

This relaxed epic, one of the band's truly finest moments, reminds somewhat of Pink Floyd's "Echoes" in the way it takes it time and simply explores. The piece strikes as classically structured, having a basic sonata form resemblance. We might call the exposition section the main theme in C Major that opens the album, countered about 4:30 minutes in by a second C Minor theme. Perhaps a foreshadowing, as this theme goes on, the reigns loosen considerably. We might broadly cast Suzuki's re-entrance around 10:15 as the opening of a development section, with the original vocal theme getting messed around with (e.g., played against static chords rather than its original descending pattern). Then, the music blasts off, getting progressively more intense and abstract, before simply going supernova around the late 17-minute mark. From here, we have an instrumental recapitulation of the original music of the exposition.

But in any case, both the band's musicianship and their sense of construction is certainly in peak shape with this album. The sound is mature and focused, the production well-balanced so that you can hear the contributions of each participant pretty clearly, even when they are low in the mix. People talk about the rush of skydiving...as for others, they just put on Future Days. An atypical entry in the band's catalog, yes, but one of their master strokes.

 1.  Future Days — 9:32
2.  Spray — 8:29
3.  Moonshake — 3:04
4.  Bel Air — 19:53

CONDITION: The USA pressing cover is hard to find without cut corner, here is one without any delete marks (no cut corner) , though does have some light shelf wear starting VG(+).  With No seam splits, no bends, otherwise solid

The vinyl is all glossy smooth "EX" (excellent) to M- (most would grade this M-) whatever the case, it plays TOPS !  

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

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