Can

Performer: Can
Engineer: Rene Tinner
Producer: Can
Distributor: Caroline Distribution

Notes: Can: Michael Karoli (vocals, guitar, bass); Irmin Schmidt (keyboards, synthesizer); Rosko Gee (bass); Jaki Liebezeit (drums); Reebop Kwaku Baah (percussion). Recorded at Inner Space Studios, Weilerswist, Germany in 1978. Can briefly disbanded in 1977, but three of the core members reformed the next year to produce the mildly disappointing OUT OF REACH. The same three--Irmin Schmidt, Michael Karoli and Jaki Liebezeit--continued the following year with the much-improved CAN, an album which largely picks up where the final quartet album, 1977's SAW DELIGHT, left off. The trio knew during the sessions that this would be the final Can album, barring compilations and occasional temporary reunions, some of which involved original singers Malcolm Mooney and Damo Suzuki, and there's a hint of valedictory sadness in tracks like "All Gates Open" and "Can Be." However, the mood is far from somber. "A Spectacle," which features tape loops and electronics by former member Holger Czukay, is as exciting as anything the band ever did, and the amusing "Can Can" is an in-joke finish to a spectacular career.

Mojo (Publisher) (1/95, p.112) - "...charts 25 years of musical pioneering, peaking with 'Future Days', a dazzling collision of funk and electronics. The best of Can music has a spare, wayward beauty that has strongly influenced a younger generation..."

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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