SCARCE - CLEAN MID 70s "CAN" - "OPENER" KRAUTROCK PROG PSYCH NEU KRAFTWERK +
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66
$ 66
Sold For
Aug 27, 2017
Sold Date
Aug 22, 2017
Start Date
$ 10
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12
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USA
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Description
ORIGINAL '70s BRITISH-ONLY FIRST PRESS .. = =
"OPENER"
UK - SUNSET/UNITED ARTISTS - SLS 50400
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Original mid '70s UK only release with unique tracking selection only available on this release... a phenomenal selection featuring the most intriguing/compelling tracks by the legendary CAN spanning from 1972 - 1974 amounting to their golden years...This SCARCE 40 years ago relic issued only in the United Kingdom is a handsome Can album with important tracks working on at least three levels – first, it suggests a turn on for the uninitiated into the music of this influential but difficult-to-pigeonhole Cologne, Germany unit. The selections are from their early-period legacy; secondly, it’s an amusing pun on the band’s name (mercifully, in spite of being quite good-humoured chaps, this was the only time they – or their labels – saw fit to make lighthearted fun of their name); finally, when combined with designer Paul Henry and photographer Trevor Rogers’s sleeve image of an open Campbells condensed soup can, there’s an inextricable link to Warhol’s semi-ironic brand of pop-art. So there you have it – best of, joke or artistic statement; take your pick.
Opener was compiled by journalist and major Can fan Duncan Fallowell and Tim Read and features eleven classic cuts ranging from the impossible funk of ‘Moonshake’ to the screwy clank of ‘Spoon’. Fallowell offers gushing sleevenotes which we’ve provided below (he co-wrote ‘Dizzy Dizzy’, included here, and so represents a somewhat biased viewpoint) and the rear has that typically Seventies approach of turning the sleeve over to pictures of the band – ranging from Michael Karoli and Holger Czukay looking like extras from Easy Rider to Irmin Schmidt and Jaki Liebezeit looking like hippie professors; Damo Suzuki just looks suave – plus brief details of their respective roles. Among the facts quoted: Karoli was a pupil of Czukay and saw The Who play in Torquay; Schmidt studied under Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luciano Berio; Suzuki busked round Europe playing one chord on a guitar while improvising on top. Czukay is described functionally as the bassist and engineer, while Liebezeit’s multi-cyclical drumming is heralded as the defining factor in Can’s music. You can imagine how oddly compelling that sleeve might have been to someone flicking idly through the racks of LPs in an "HMV" UK record shop in the mid '70s.
Duncan Fallowell liner notes:
Can was launched on an unsuspecting audience in autumn 1969, to a totally polarized critical reception. Their ability to arouse such strong confused feelings, for and against, was in itself a statement of their dynamism, confused because they were an enigma, could not be fitted to the current scheme of things, nothing was known of them as individuals. They are still the most unsettling of the German rock groups. Cologne is not Germany’s wildest city. This is why Can live there. Their studio, once a castle, now occupies an old cinema a few miles out of the city. Visitors are few – but never turned away, and in this easy practical atmosphere the band work. Can do not record numbers so much as discover songs or patterns in the process of recording. The timbre of their music, on record at least, has softened with their later albums from which this is compiled, and their music became more accessible. The key to Can’s music is not where it comes from or what the ingredients are, but how it works, how it moves and that’s to be discovered by listening......
- Holger Czukay / Bass
- Jaki Liebezeit / Drums
- Michael Karoli / Guitar
- Irmin Schmidt / Keyboards, Synthesizer
- Damo Suzuki / Vocals (2, 5-8)
1. Dizzy Dizzy (5:40)
2. Moonshake (3:02)
3. Sing Swan Song (4:18)
4. Come Sta, La Luna (5:44)
5. Spoon (3:03)
6. I'm So Green (3:03)
7. Vitamin C (3:34)
8. Future Days (9:34)Track A1 ? 1974.
Track A2 ? 1973.
Track A3 ? 1972.
Track A4 ? 1974.
Track B1 ? 1972.
Track B2 ? 1972.
Track B3 ? 1972.
Track B4 ? 1973.
CONDITION: The cover: rated: M- very fragile laminated UK cover is fine collection wortthy condition, no issues to report... there are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing ...
The vinyl: Rated: M- clean and clear, TOP copy, plays perfect... 40+ years of age, will lend to someones uplifting listening experience... both UK labels are clean .....
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
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