CAN
EGE BAMYASI ALBUM BY CAN WAS RE-RELEASED ON CD FEBRUARY 5TH, 2008 ON THE SPOON LABEL BUT I GOT MY COPY IN 1972 ON UNITED ARTISTS LABEL WITH VINYL LP. CAN WAS ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL KRAUTROCK BANDS TO EMERGE FROM EUROPE IN 1970'S, AND THIS MASTERPIECE MARKED A CRUCIAL STAGE IN THE DEVLOPMENT FROM THE EDGY EXPERIMENTALISM OF THEIR ALBUMS TO THE SOFTER AMBIENCE OF THEIR LATER WORK. EGE BAMYASI SONGS "SOUP" AND "PINCH" WERE REMINDERS OF THEIR WILDER EXCESSES, BUT ON TRACKS SUCH AS "ONE MORE NIGHT" AND "SING SWAN SONG" THEY DEMONSTRATED THAT THEY COULD BE EQUALLY INVENTIVE WITHIN TIGHTER SONG STRUCTURES. "IM SO GREEN" AND "SPOON" WERE ALMOST CONVENTION POP SONGS, TO THE EXTENT THAT THE LATTER PROVIDED THE BAND WITH AN UNEXPECTED CHART-TOPPER IN THEIR NATIVE GERMANY.
CAN
EGE BAMYASI: DAMO SUZUKI (VOCALS); MICHAEL KAROLI (GUITAR); IRMIN SCHMIDT (KEYBOARDS); HOLGER CZUKAY (BASS); JAKI LIEBEZEIT (DRUMS)
ALBUM TRACKS:
PINCH
SING SWAN SONG
ONE MORE NIGHT
VITAMIN C
SOUP
I'M SO GREEN
SPOON
CAN WAS FORMED IN 1968, COLOGNE, WITH MALCOLM MOONEY ON VOCALS, THEY RECORDED AND PRIVATELY DISTRIBUTED "MONSTER MOVIE" BEFORE MOONEY WAS TAKEN ILL AND RELPLACED BY SUZUKI. THEIR SPARSE STYLE, BASED ON REPEATED RHYTHMIC FIGURES AND SIMPLE HARMONIES, WAS EMPLOYED AS BASIS OF LONG, HYPNOTIC IMPROVISATIONS, SEVERAL OF WHICH CAN BE FOUND ON "TAGO MAGO" RELEASED IN 1971. NEXT ALBUM FROM 1972 "EGE BAMYASI HOWEVER IS THEIR BEST RELEASE , BEING LESS INDULGENT AND PATCHY AND IS LIKE ONE OF THOSE STUDIO ALBUMS YOU MUST HAVE IN YOUR COLLECTION. ALSO KNOWN FOR THEIR FILM MUSIC (DEEP END AMONG OTHERS), CAN'S WORK-IN THIS FIELD CAN BE SAMPLED ON "CAN SOUNDTRACKS" FROM 1973. ONE OF MOST IMPORTANT KRAUTROCK GROUP.
