CAN....S and D?

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

julian cope uses "free rock", i think

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

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

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

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

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.

progressive psychedelic rock

avant-psych

Exponential rock

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

oh wowwww

downloading now from some old blog

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

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

i love rock flute, bring it

i wanna hear it!
ysi?

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

it's on youtube.

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

^^^ where I DL’d

plenty more can rarity action there, too

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

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!

Scott nice find! What did you pay?

http://www32.zippyshare.com/v/LuxWguW4/file.html

it wasn't nothing but less than half of what i would have had to pay online for just a regular old VG+ copy. such a nice thing to be the first person to play an album like that. just amazing production.

most copies for sale online are from germany and they want 80+. which means its not even that easy to find in germany.

Thank you Calstars!!

definitely something worth reissuing officially. there was a bootleg of it on LP and that's it.

is there an insert or any more text / print in the sleeve?

https://scontent.fbos1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/26904760_1919767431670233_908868091597421880_n.jpg?oh=b0710dea5bd06bdbf7c3a0aefcd3257e&oe=5ADFCCC1

ty Scott

<3 jaki-for-hire <3

this sounds good! pretty Floyd-y.

v nice, ty Scott!

Info about Czukay trove over on Rolling Reissues 2018, just got this press sheet:

CAN

ANNOUNCE NEW BOOK

ALL GATES OPEN: THE STORY OF CAN
BY ROB YOUNG & IRMIN SCHMIDT

AVAILABLE MAY 5 VIA FABER & FABER
Faber & Faber are proud to announce All Gates Open, the definitive story of the most influential and revered avant-garde band of the late twentieth century: Can. It consists of two books and previously unseen art and photos.

In book one, All Gates Open, Rob Young gives us the full biography of a band that emerged at the vanguard of the Krautrock scene in late sixties Cologne. Can’s studio and live performances burned an incendiary trail through the decade that followed, and left a legacy that is still reverberating today in hip hop, post-rock, ambient, and countless other genres. Rob Young’s account draws on unique interviews with all the founding members of Can, their vocalists, friends and music industry associates. And he revisits the music, which is still deliriously innovative and unclassifiable more than four decades on. All Gates Open is a portrait of a group who worked with visionary intensity and belief, outside the system and inside their own inner space.

Book two, Can Kiosk, has been assembled by Irmin Schmidt, founding member and guiding spirit of the band, as a “collage” – a technique long associated with Can’s approach to recording. There is an oral history of the band, collated by former Electronic Beats and Spex editor Max Dax, and Robert Defcon, drawing on interviews Irmin conducted with musicians who see Can as an influence. These musicians include the likes of Bobby Gillespie, Geoff Barrow, Mark E. Smith, Daniel Miller and many others, but also with artists and film-makers like Wim Wenders and John Malkovich, where Irmin reflects on more personal matters and his work with film. Extracts from Irmin’s notebooks and diaries from 2013–14 are also reproduced as a reflection on the creative process, and the memories, dreams and epiphanies it entails. Can Kiosk offers further perspectives on a band that has inspired several generations of musicians and film-makers.

Note: The limited edition of All Gates Open will be available to pre-order beginning Thursday, April 5 at www.faber.co.uk.

Can were unique and their legacy is articulated in this two-book volume with the depth, rigor, originality and intensity associated with the band itself.

Irmin Schmidt is a composer and founding member of Can, and has scored more than one hundred soundtracks, released a dozen solo albums and written an opera, Gormenghast, based on the novels of Mervyn Peake. In 2015, he was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in southern France.

Rob Young’s books include the acclaimed Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music, and histories of record labels Rough Trade and Warp. A former editor of The Wire magazine, he has contributed to publications including Uncut, the Guardian, Sight & Sound, Frieze and Art Review. He lives in Oslo.

looking forward to this!

same -- i've only read Electric Eden but it ruled

Yeah this looks really good.

For review queries, check w Jared Dionne on Mute site or Dan Papps on Faber.

Not sure about the fictional digressions in Electric Eden so hope this is a straight biography.
Looking forward to reading it.
Would still really like a copy of the Pascal Bussy Can Book, hoped that was getting a reprint a few years back but it never appeared as far as I know.

I hope it's possible to buy the first book separately. No offence, Boaby.

i'm almost certain it's two "books" bound as one volume

also thanks to everybody in this thread for the great links etc. this past week

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, January 18, 2018 11:02 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah and it rules. super blown-out and messy, sort of on that early amon düül vibe

http://fabersocial.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2018/01/CAN-Credit-Hildegard-Schmidt.jpg

<3

Yeah that Kamasutra thing was super great. Prehistoric Future was more like ‘inspiring and important to hear but might not listen again’.

an advance review copy of ALL GATES OPEN landed in my loving arms thanks to a partner who works at a place where books are reviewed
i'm about 60 pages in, enjoying immensely so far.

reading about the early days of the formation of the group is especially interesting. i also did not know that irmin schmidt was inspired by the stomp of early music for some of the early Can tracks. he said "a lot of this music had an unbelievable rhythm; the people sang hard, so that they yelled it out"
that's right!

Looking forward to that, official release is 3rd May & there's a talk tour tied in with the release around tehn so coming up fast. There's a date i Dublin I noticed earlier.

Would still love a copy of the old Can Book by Pascal Bussy

This book really delivers! Is anyone else reading it yet? There is a very detailed description of how Mother Sky was made that I personally have never read before and found illuminating.