Anthology

Performer: Can
Distributor: Caroline Distribution

Notes: Can: Michael Karoli (vocals, guitar); Irmin Schmidt (vocals, keyboards); Holger Czukay (vocals, bass); Jaki Leibezeit (drums); Malcolm Mooney, Damo Suzuki (vocals). Can: Michael Karoli (vocals, guitar, slide guitar, violin, electric violin, organ, bass guitar); Damo Suzuki, Malcolm Mooney (vocals); Holger Czukay (French horn, bass synthesizer, bass guitar); Irmin Schmidt (keyboards, synthesizer); Jaki Liebezeit (drums, percussion, wind). Personnel: Can (vocals). Additional personnel: Rosko Gee (vocals, bass guitar); Rebop Kwaku Baah (vocals, percussion). Between its 1968 inception in Cologne, Germany as a rock outlet for classically trained keyboardist Irmin Schmidt and jazz bassist Holger Czukay and its eventual dissolution in the late '70s, Can was an ever-mutating, endlessly innovative entity. With brilliant guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Michael Karoli, incomparable vocalist Kenji "Damo" Suzuki, and Czukay and human drum-machine Jaki Liebezeit at its core--one of the better rhythm sections ever--the deservedly admired and much-imitated Can was nothing less than an unstoppable creative engine. Compiling a definitive "Can-thology" is a daunting prospect. Most of the double-disc ANTHOLOGY's selections are inspired. Included are the entirety of MONSTER MOVIE's serpentine 20-minute "Yoo Doo Right" and propulsive "Father Cannot Yell"; the slinky "She Brings the Rain" (a SOUNDTRACKS favorite); FUTURE DAYS' blissful title track; and such popular singles as "Moonshake" and "Spoon." But questionable edits of the essential "Mother Sky," "Aumgn," "Soup," and "Halleluwah" only offer a taste, and the omission of EGE BAMYASI's fabulous "Vitamin C" is puzzling. Disc two samples generously from all later albums except 1978's Can-despised OUT OF REACH. Though less innovative than the band's unparalleled 1969-1975 material, such tracks as SAW DELIGHT's sun-drenched, polyrhythmic "Animal Waves" and FLOWMOTION's lovely "Cascade Waltz" are no less delightful.

Though they were one of the key bands of the 1970s Krautrock movement, Can always saw themselves as individualists. They were influenced more by composers like Stockhausen than by psychedelic rock, but this seminal German band combined their avant-garde tendencies with rock trappings and funk-inflected rhythms in an amazingly natural way, influencing subsequent generations of iconoclasts.

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