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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.

Didn't know it was out tbh.

(xp) Let me guess, the end section is a tape loop? (Mother Sky that is, not the book).

Nothing about a tape loop so far -- Irmin shuttled back and forth from where the filmmakers were and decided on cues, structure, mood and then he went back to Inner Space/the castle and explained to the band what they should do. I loled when I read that the band wasn't interested in the details of the movie anyway. Jaki confirmed this process and said "we simply made the music and it always fit." I am enjoying this book so much.

you can read about the book here https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/07/all-gates-open-story-of-can-rob-young-irmin-schmidt-review

my copy arrived a couple of weeks ago and has been sitting on my desk taunting me ever since

picked a bad time to have a baby tbh, i should have thought ahead

not to derail the thread but congrats on babby bg!

Am at Soon Over Babaluma so far. been interesting. Shame Damo didn't want to be interviewed especially if he did go and get interviewed by Mojo right around the time the book was released.

Enjoying it, would still really like to read the Pascal bussy book. Not sure why I never got around to getting it. Found out it came out in '89 through SAF so wondering if I at least got to look at it.

I've got the Pascal Bussy book, it's fairly skimpy.

Oh right. I've been building it up on my head since it was supposed to be being reissued about 10 years ago. Possibly because it was the book on Can.
I guess i have what I need now then.
Or would do if i get all the visual footage as well as the rest of the audio.

(babby’s not here quite yet btw, just been busy prepping! thx anyway nick :D)

It's a bit like the Wire book on SAF being comprehensively superseded by that other Wire published a couple of years ago.

other Wire book, that should read.

Yeah still need to read that too.
But wasn't the older Wire one getting slagged before the newer one appeared somewhat or am i thinking of a 3rd Wire book.

i am glad i waited to read this book! it's got everything i wanted to know about so far. the guardian review complains that it doesn't get far enough into the other "personalities" of the band members, but that hasn't bothered me so far. not only do some people prefer to keep their professional and personal lives separate, not everyone wants to know that stuff. i think it's fine the way it is. his complaints about Rob Young's florid descriptions are otm if you dislike florid description but apparently i like it!

congrats on your babby, the book will still be there when you're ready :)

i am enjoying Irmin's contributions specifically. even if he is biased because he is Irmin Schmidt, it's always good to get a firsthand recollection of process and intention. at least i am enjoying that.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/may/31/i-grew-up-in-total-ruins-irmin-schmidt-of-can-on-lsd-mourning-and-musical-adventures

xps yeah i found the bussy book to be disappointingly lightweight.

Has some good quotes in it, mostly from Jaki.

More from Irmin:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b3fkx3

quick update, is Oh Yeah the greatest song ever recorded why yes it is

Is that the one that's based on Bix Beiderbecke or is it "Mushroom"? Started reading this, I'm up to "Ege Bamyasi". A lot of it I already knew and I've read a lot of the quotes before but there's some great stuff, particularly on Malcolm Mooney, and what about Stockhausen's letter to the newspapers to try to prevent Damo being deported - nice one KH! One quibble is I find Rob Young's opinions on the music very predictable and canonical, there's a lot of 'the longer the song is the more important it is' going on so far.

I dug out "Unlimited Edition" a couple of days ago, and I have to say it's mostly alright. I recant my postings from Can - finally remastered onwards, but I will add that the 'the longer the song is the more important it is received wisdom does not apply to this one.

Oh Yeah is the greatest song ever recorded. It's the track that cracked this band for me, after much effort with Ege Bamyasi that wasn't clicking. I eventually realized I was primed to be struck by Oh Yeah because for a long while Nick Cave's Tupelo was the greatest song ever recorded, and it's sort of Oh Yeah with a whole lot of words on top.

I heard "Tupelo" ont' radio the other day, and Oh Yeah I agree.

Not hearing the resemblance but, goodness, I can't imagine listening to early Nick Cave anymore.

what about Stockhausen's letter to the newspapers to try to prevent Damo being deported - nice one KH!
Yes! My favorite line was "Society dearly needs birds like these>"

one more night
mom sky
oh yeah
future days
butterfly

imo

Oh Yeah is def the greatest song ever recorded, and it's surprising that I love it so much since I usually don't like things where like, half of it is backwards.

I often think of Karoli's guitar solo as he's de-tuning his guitar circa 2:30 of "Oh Yeah" before Damo switches to Japanese:

ひとりでそこに座ってる
頭のイカレた奴
虹の上から小便
我らがヒモと呼ぶ
LSDの街から
離れ餓鬼を怖れ
朝がまだこないのを
幸いなことに

"The crazy guy
Sitting alone over there
Pisses from atop rainbows
We call him our pimp
We leave the LSD town
And fearing hungry ghosts
We take it as a lucky thing
That morning still won’t come"

https://youtu.be/EhNFtoY4nNo

lmao who the hell I didn't even recognize what song that was at first

I've known a few people in music licensing in my time and they can be crate-digging types that are routinely beaten back by the brand's desire for Sigur Ros or Pomplamoose type shit, whoever got this through the gate, I take my hat off to you.

doesn't make up for years and years of "REAL PEOPLE NOT ACTORS" featuring beardo egg thrower but its a start

mmm, quite contrary that one...

I saw that one this weekend, bit strange to hear Donny & Marie mixed with Can, but there you go.

I've known a few people in music licensing in my time and they can be crate-digging types that are routinely beaten back by the brand's desire for Sigur Ros or Pomplamoose type shit, whoever got this through the gate, I take my hat off to you.

― MaresNest

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