CAN Ege Bamyasi LP SPOON/BASE RECORDS 1972 ITA reissue SPOON 008 HOLGER CZUKAY
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CAN
Eclectic band at the forefront of the Krautrock movement, combining avant-garde tendencies with rock trappings and funk-inflected rhythms. Always at least three steps ahead of contemporary popular music, Can were the leading avant-garde rock group of the '70s. From their very beginning, their music didn't conform to any commonly held notions about rock & roll -- not even those of the countercultures. Inspired more by 20th century classical music than Chuck Berry, their closest contemporaries were Frank Zappa or possibly the Velvet Underground. Yet their music was more serious and inaccessible than either of those artists. Instead ofrecording tight pop songs or satire, Can experimented with noise, synthesizers, nontraditional music, cut-and-paste techniques, and, most importantly, electronic music; each album marked a significant step forward from the previous album, investigating new territories that other rock bands weren't interested in exploring.
"EGE BAMYASI"
<reissue, originally published in 1972>
LP SPOON RECORDS SPOON 008 STEREO
MADE IN ITALY EARLY-80s REPRESSING
SINGLE SLEEVE
NOTES: This is the first Italian regular reissue on Spoon/Base with black print on white labels
and "SPOON-Records" plus "D-5000 Köln 30" as text (issued early-80s). No barcode.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: none
Label Code: LC7395
LABEL: SPOON - WHITE LABEL - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: (spine & rear) SPOON 008
Catalog on labels: Spoon 008
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): SPOON 008-1
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): SPOON 008-2
On labels: rim text reads "Alle urheber.........sendung!"
S.I.A.E.
all songs by Karoli........published by Edition Can/E.R.P. Musikverlag
made in Italy
Rights Society: S.I.A.E. (printed on all sides and stamped on Side A & C)
On back cover: Tracklist & Credits
Can-Management & Spoon-Records..........all rights reserved
Base Record Via Collamarini...........Italy
tracklisting
Side A: PINCH - SING SWAN SONG - ONE MORE NIGHT
Side B: VITAMIN C - SOUP - I'M SO GREEN - SPOON
grading
RECORD EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG(+) but (please, see pictures and read above description)
The follow-up to Tago Mago is only lesser in terms of being shorter; otherwise the Can collective delivers its expected musical recombination act with the usual power and ability. Liebezeit, at once minimalist and utterly funky, provides another base of key beat action for everyone to go off on -- from the buried, lengthy solos by Karoli on "Pinch" to the rhythm box/keyboard action on "Spoon." The latter song, which closes the album, is particularly fine, its sound hinting at an influence on everything from early Ultravox songs like "Hiroshima Mon Amour" to the hollower rhythms on many of Gary Numan's first efforts. Liebezeit and Czukay's groove on "One More Night," calling to mind a particularly cool nightclub at the end of the evening, shows that Stereolab didn't just take the brain-melting crunch side of Can as inspiration. The longest track, "Soup," lets the band take off on another one of its trademark lengthy rhythm explorations, though not without some tweaks to the expected sound. About four minutes in, nearly everything drops away, with Schmidt and Liebezeit doing the most prominent work; after that, it shifts into some wonderfully grating and crumbling keyboards combined with Suzuki's strange pronouncements, before ending with a series of random interjections from all the members. Playfulness abounds as much as skill: Slide whistles trade off with Suzuki on "Pinch"; squiggly keyboards end "Vitamin C"; and rollicking guitar highlights "I'm So Green." The underrated and equally intriguing sense of drift that the band brings to its recordings continues as always. "Sing Swan Song" is particularly fine, a gentle float with Schmidt's keyboards and Czukay's bass taking the fore to support Suzuki's sing-song vocal...(AllMusic)
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