CAN
CAN formed in Cologne in 1968, assembled around Holger Czukay and Irmin Schmidt, two former students of avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen who wanted to know what would happen if rock music had no blues in it at all. With guitarist Michael Karoli and jazz drummer Jaki Liebezeit completing the lineup, and Japanese street musician Damo Suzuki joining on vocals in 1970 after being discovered busking outside a Munich cafe, the band spent the next decade recording sprawling improvised sessions and then editing hours of tape into albums that drew from free jazz, funk, psychedelia, and musique concrete in roughly equal measure. Tago Mago (1971), Ege Bamyasi (1972), and Future Days (1973) form the core of that catalog. David Bowie, Talking Heads, Joy Division, and Radiohead have each called them foundational. CAN disbanded in 1979. The influence never did.
Albums (26)
6 tracks LIVE IN ARLES 1975
5 tracks LIVE IN KEELE 1977
4 tracks LIVE IN ASTON 1977
5 tracks LIVE IN PARIS 1973
4 tracks LIVE IN CUXHAVEN 1976
7 tracks LIVE IN BRIGHTON 1975
5 tracks LIVE IN STUTTGART 1975
23 tracks The Singles
30 tracks The Lost Tapes
10 tracks Tago Mago (40th Anniversary Edition)
16 tracks Sacrilege
29 tracks Anthology
8 tracks Rite Time
7 tracks Delay 1968
8 tracks Can
7 tracks Out Of Reach
5 tracks Saw Delight
7 tracks Flow Motion
19 tracks Unlimited Edition
6 tracks Landed
5 tracks Soon Over Babaluma
4 tracks Future Days
7 tracks Ege Bamyasi
7 tracks Tago Mago
7 tracks Soundtracks
4 tracks Monster Movie
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