CLEAN 1973 ORIG CAN BABALUMA Krautrock Prog Psych

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     1973 ORIGINAL KRAUT-PSYCH LEGEND

        IN TINTED BLUE-FOIL COVER

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    SOON OVER BABALUMA

                   USA - UNITED ARTISTS - UA LA 343   

*CLEAN VINYL*

ORIGINAL 1973 first pressing with metallic (color foil) cover and minty clean VINYL ...

The first album after Suzuki's abrupt departure found the band, in 1974, reduced to the core of its original quartet: Jaki Liebezeit, Holger Czukay, Michael Karoli, and Irmin Schmidt, playing, respectively (but like the members of GENTLE GIANT, not exclusively), drums, bass, guitar, and keyboards. On paper it looks like a normal enough line-up, but consider their separate backgrounds. Czukay and Schmidt were students of 20th Century avant-garde classical music; Karoli was an early fan of the Beatles; and Liebezeit was schooled in the near-noise of Free Jazz and other arcane ethnic rhythms (including, some whisper, forbidden voodoo drum rituals).

With a combined pedigree like that, it's no wonder CAN was such a musical force of nature. And all those influences were put into play here, in what could have been an unsettling period of transition, but turned out to be a career peak (that same year, they performed an epic, near 13-hour overnight concert in Berlin).

The album opens with the cool German-Jamaican groove-vibe of "Dizzy Dizzy" followed by  "Come Sta, La Luna" sounds not unlike a tour of Fellini's Rome in La Dolce Vita, with Irmin Schmidt's voice masked behind a thick screen of electronic camouflage. And the instrumental "Splash" (a companion of sorts to the likeminded but mellower "Spray", off the previous "Future Days" album) is an absolutely ferocious improvisation in 7/8 time, featuring the distorted sound of Karoli's treated violin, flying like shrapnel around a typically busy Jaki Liebezeit percussion volley.

The remaining musical barriers are fractured on the final two tracks: "Chain Reaction" and "Quantum Physics", actually a single, uninterrupted 20- minute tour of inner and outer space. The titles are more literal than you might imagine, recalling an atom-age combo of Edward Teller, Robert Oppenheimer, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg (with Einstein calling the tune, of course).

It begins with a hypertense dance groove beamed down from some far-flung alien discotheque, which after ten minutes gradually dissipates into a long, proto-ambient euthanasia chill-out, maybe the best sonic illustration of infinity since Pythagoras first heard the Music of the Spheres. The subtly shifting auroras of Irmin Schmidt's keyboards, with Jaki Liebezeit's quietly percolating electronic percussion, would later spark an entire generation of sound sculptors and high-tech navel gazers (THE ORB, BIOSPHERE, you name 'em). But the original role model, one of several from Germany in the 1970's, is still spellbinding, even allowing for the restrictions of its relatively primitive two-track recording technology.

No one can argue that "Soon Over Babaluma" put the final edge of gilt on an already sterling reputation.

1. Dizzy Dizzy (5:40)
2. Come sta, La Luna (5:44)
3. Splash (7:47)
4. Chain Reaction (11:12)
5. Quantum Physics (8:33)

CONDITION: The cover is a blue tinted metallic silver cover and we all know those old silver foil covers get messed up real quick with scuffs and shelf wear...soon to be 40 years later this copy is VG+(+)  with only light wear to the silver foil. There is a delete cut at bottom right which is typical for the album that was completely over the heads of the population at the time, going straight to the delete bins... having no split seams, no bends, no writing.

The vinyl is VERY clean over both sides...shiny gloss, smooth grooves...plays clear and gets a M- rating ...the labels are clean 

                keeper copy!

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