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I've only seen one interview with him and he claims to be 100% self-taught -- I have no idea how he developed his style though. He didn't say much in the Can DVD either because Irmin Schmidt never stops talking. I would probably faint if I saw him play irl.

we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 20:12 (ten years ago) link

yeah, tony williams is a good comparison. liebezeit came out of a free jazz scene didn't he?
i think it was michael rother who said jaki was the one genius of the krautrock scene.

tylerw, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 20:13 (ten years ago) link

I feel like the crowd should be totally losing their shit over it more

They're totally aligning with the band at the beginning of "I Feel Alright"!

Tim Heckler (willem), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 20:14 (ten years ago) link

watching this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZh4EmBbwd8
seems the full recording

Tim Heckler (willem), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 20:15 (ten years ago) link

what are the precursors of Jaki's drumming style? I feel like the crowd should be totally losing their shit over it more but maybe it's not as revolutionary as I think it was?

jaki's one of my favorite drummers as well. jaki was huge into jazz, so a contemporary of sorts might be jack dejohnette (listen to live miles from 1969/70 and you'll hear dejohnette busting out some similar moves). of course, jaki was doing his shit on delay 1968 so maybe he hadn't even heard dejohnette yet? james browns' drummers seems like a touchstone too.

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 20:16 (ten years ago) link

If the question about the full Rockpalast Archives show being circulated before hasn't been answered before it looks like there is a series of old Rockpalast related shows being broadcast on German tv. THat's where the Kraftwerk set that recently appeared came from and from the same original series.
Not sure if this relates to the popularity of the Beat Club related material which has been appearing over the last few years as the Lost Broadcasts or not. & I'm assuming they're shows from rival tv stations.
But so great to see things appearing from then taht have lain dormant and unknown for 40+ years. THey are also broadcasting some US band stuff recorded for the same show. I've seen a Santana set mentioned. There's more on that at this link, http://www.wdr.de/tv/rockpalast/sendungsbeitraege/2013/from_the_archives/index.jsp

Stevolende, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 20:19 (ten years ago) link

Liebezeit has done quite a few albums with Burnt Friedman (Secret Rhythms). And just two weeks ago this was released on which he plays on two tracks.

Tim Heckler (willem), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 20:22 (ten years ago) link

Shame "Mother Sky" sounds so terrible.

There are some moments in the set during which Schmidt's mixed in too prominently, "Mother Sky" suffers the most imo

Tim Heckler (willem), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 20:31 (ten years ago) link

don't sleep on the Pluramon albums either, although they are from around 15 years ago

sleeve, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 20:32 (ten years ago) link

xp re: "current" Jaki projects

sleeve, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 20:32 (ten years ago) link

will do! i haven't heard any of that or the burnt friedman stuff. i saw that youtube posted but haven't heard the albums.

we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 20:38 (ten years ago) link

love this 12".

nerve_pylon, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 20:42 (ten years ago) link

maybe Ginger Baker was in a similar ball park when it comes to Jaki comparators? A jazz drummer playing in a rock band (though "rock" is stretching it a bit for Can obviously)? Both fantastic drummers too, of course!

Angkor Waht (Neil S), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link

I really like secret rhythms

forum enthusiast (wins), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link

the girl's not just reading a book- it's a peanuts comic digest!

rushomancy, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 21:15 (ten years ago) link

yeah I can see t williams/j dejohnette jazziness embedded in funk shell

A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 21:35 (ten years ago) link

Soundtracks had barely come out when this concert was filmed. I wonder how many of these kids had heard Damo before. Were there Mooney partisans in 1970?

jmm, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 22:10 (ten years ago) link

yeah jaki's stuff with burnt friedman is great!!

brimstead, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 02:28 (ten years ago) link

As far as Jaki's other projects, Spielweise Zwei by B.I.L.L. works nicely for me. Released in 2010 on Klangbad. The teaser doesn't do it justice but it's a starting point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2idKCpRKMU

doug watson, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 16:05 (ten years ago) link

that last song sounds pretty awesome, not sure about the first two

we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 16:23 (ten years ago) link

all those people in the audience will now be between 60 and 70. weird, somehow.

I feel like Can has suddenly become contemporary, a basic model for a combo, rather than the "progenitor" status they've occupied for forty years. Similar to what happened to Velvet Underground circa 1984, Mission of Burma circa 1994 or Gang of Four circa 2001.

Most of those 65 year old audience members would still be as blank-faced seeing the gig now, but their grandkids wouldn't.

Yarl Kastremski (bendy), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link

all those people in the audience will now be between 60 and 70. weird, somehow.

Much younger than the band of course (well the three that are left). Jaki did indeed come out of free jazz, playing with Manfred Schoof, Alex von Schlippenbach (played alongside Guru Guru's Mani Neumeier on one of the Globe Unity Orchestra albums), Gerd Dudek et al. Good stuff too.

Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 17:16 (ten years ago) link

eleven months pass...

Can Halen, anyone?

https://soundcloud.com/user121743766/can-halen

nickn, Thursday, 5 March 2015 04:27 (nine years ago) link

Are you happy?

http://idler.co.uk/article/duncan-fallowell-questionnaire/

Noel Emits, Thursday, 5 March 2015 09:34 (nine years ago) link

"CASCADE WALTZ" IS INCREDIBLE

soyrev, Thursday, 5 March 2015 10:07 (nine years ago) link

nine months pass...

couple of CAN related questions:

will someone please give me a usable (not comedy) descriptor for music inspired by can that is not "krautrock"?
this is sort of the opposite of precursors, but do you think there is a modern school of drummers who are influenced by jaki's drumming style?

La Lechuza (La Lechera), Friday, 11 December 2015 00:39 (eight years ago) link

i know kosmische and motorik but that is not what i am looking for
is there another word?

La Lechuza (La Lechera), Friday, 11 December 2015 00:40 (eight years ago) link

julian cope uses "free rock", i think

lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 11 December 2015 00:45 (eight years ago) link

oh but that's for can and not so much stuff that was inspired by can

lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 11 December 2015 00:46 (eight years ago) link

To me the salient traits of can are

Steady and strict on the bottom

Anything goes on the top

No egos allowed on either stratum

Idk a good descriptor for them that evokes that balance

banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Friday, 11 December 2015 00:52 (eight years ago) link

i know, neither do i!
free rock isn't bad, will consider it

La Lechuza (La Lechera), Friday, 11 December 2015 00:58 (eight years ago) link

Free rock makes me think of something like first ash ra tempel album

banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Friday, 11 December 2015 01:03 (eight years ago) link

I would call CAN's music purposeful and introspective. Totally useless as rock descriptors though. For me Liebezeit and Czukay were the nucleus of a beautiful atom, with a fuzz of orbitals reacting around it.

MatthewK, Friday, 11 December 2015 01:13 (eight years ago) link

progressive psychedelic rock

o. nate, Saturday, 12 December 2015 03:22 (eight years ago) link

avant-psych

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 12 December 2015 07:41 (eight years ago) link

Exponential rock

めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Saturday, 12 December 2015 10:15 (eight years ago) link

two years pass...

can't believe I never checked this out before, basically a lost Can album from 1969

https://www.discogs.com/Irmin-Schmidt-Inner-Space-Production-Kamasutra-Vollendung-Der-Liebe-Original-Soundtrack-Recording/release/2078377

sleeve, Thursday, 18 January 2018 04:29 (six years ago) link

oh wowwww

downloading now from some old blog

Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 18 January 2018 16:12 (six years ago) link

I realized I had heard the "Hiding My Nightingale" song on the famous "Motorway Mix" by Trish of Broadcast, but the rest of this is just pure primo Can doing instrumental jams

sleeve, Thursday, 18 January 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link

too much flute around for me personally. what's that other really early david johnson era recording they did? prehistoric future?

Arnold Schoenberg Steals (rushomancy), Thursday, 18 January 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link

i love rock flute, bring it

Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 18 January 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link

i wanna hear it!
ysi?

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 18 January 2018 18:43 (six years ago) link

I'm gonna rip it, gimme a couple of days :)

sleeve, Thursday, 18 January 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link

it's on youtube.

scott seward, Thursday, 18 January 2018 18:48 (six years ago) link

also over here: http://itslostitsfound.blogspot.de/2017/09/irmin-schmidt-kamasutra.html

tylerw, Thursday, 18 January 2018 18:52 (six years ago) link

^^^ where I DL’d

Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 18 January 2018 19:32 (six years ago) link

plenty more can rarity action there, too

tylerw, Thursday, 18 January 2018 19:33 (six years ago) link

i bought a SEALED original copy of this today at a local store. wowee zowee does it ever sound incredible. my speakers were weeping. so beautiful. so cool. hard to find and this is the most perfect copy ever. like new. anyway, i bring it up here because jaki plays drums on five tracks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2m1leO14eI

scott seward, Monday, 22 January 2018 01:48 (six years ago) link

Holy shit! Never heard of him but man, that's a veteran trippers dream l.p.! Even on my tiny kindle speaker i can feel "it". I gotta get some shrooms and play this again. On the big speakers though. Nice one as usual, Scott!

VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Monday, 22 January 2018 02:01 (six years ago) link

Scott nice find! What did you pay?

calstars, Monday, 22 January 2018 02:09 (six years ago) link


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