Can's Sacrilege? - Eddy reviews the remixes

As the title suggests this album of Can remixes was a risky project but it actually works pretty well and there are some exciting reworkings here which have, on the whole, been praised by the band… except Damo Suzuki that is:It’s not my tea.As befits the era Sacrilege (1997) consists mostly of remixed instrumentals of original tracks in the drum and bass style. Therein lies the issue. As ...

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Can's Spanner In The Sky Album Reviewed

Of all Can's latter period albums Can aka Inner Space, the band's last proper album released in 1979, before the short lived reunion a decade later that was Ritetime, is patchy but good. The album presented another shift in sound; a bit more gutsy, jazzy, rhythmic and very unusual. It has more the character of Landed from 1975 than its immediate predecessors; the world music flavoured albums ...

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Raphael On Can's Tago Mago

Guest blogger Raphael Gouin Loubert gives a track by track rundown of an album very close to my own heart, CAN's Tago Mago. Want to know how I first discovered Krautrock? Tago Mago by CAN. A monumental piece of Krautrock, with each musician at their peak, playing very tightly from beginning to end. The successive CAN albums Tago Mago/Ege Bamyasi/Future Days are the holy trinity ...

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Album Review: Can - Future Days

"Future Days" was the last album in Can's celebrated "Damo Trilogy".  Despite Eddy's controversially low placing in his own Can albums rundown, for many fans the album represents not only the peak of Can's output but perhaps one of the greatest "Krautrock" albums ever. Our guest reviewer Kieran Baddeley offers up a new perspective on this landmark album. Can’s final album with Damo ...

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Can Albums Ranked From Worst to Best

Can The Band  Can were perhaps the original or quintessential "Krautrock" band. Formed in Cologne in the late 60s by Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay they created some of the most original music ever committed to record over a decade between 1968 and 1979. Operating independently to the regular pop and rock fashions of the time Can's largely improvised music incorporated elements of ...

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Log #70 - Consummate Duophonic Pop with Overlooked Triophonic Prog

~ 1. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising Sand 2. Charles and Eddie - Duophonic 3. Beck - Colors 4. Can - Sacrilege 2 5. Foals - What Went Down 6. Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert ~ Two more charity purchases this week. One was Charles and Eddie and the other was a book actually which I'll include here as it is on music. The Charles and Eddie album ...

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Log #69 - From Raising Hell to Raising Sand

I pick up a lot of CDs from Charity Shops - often for a £1 or less! For example this week I came across Robert Plant and Alison Krauss's Raising Sand album which I'd heard a lot about but had never listened to (it's a cracker). Of course there's always a lot of junk in the charity bins too - the same old rubbish gets recycled before eventually ending up in landfill presumably. It is rare to find ...

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