CAN
THE LOST TAPES VINYL BOX SET OUT DECEMBER 4th, 2012
5 LP SET – 180g VINYL
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“More than a great listen, the set solidifies both Can’s oeuvre and their approach to music making as far-reaching influences."
-New York Times
“essential for any fan”
-Under The Radar
“a masterpiece in it’s own right”
-Consequence of Sound
“A startling discovery”
-Q Mag
Mute and Spoon are delighted to announce that, due to phenomenal demand, Can’s The Lost Tapes will be released as a 5 LP box set on 180g vinyl on December 4th, 2012.
The Lost Tapes
was curated by Irmin Schmidt and Daniel Miller, compiled by Irmin
Schmidt and Jono Podmore and edited by Jono Podmore. The vinyl issue of
The Lost Tapes will come with a 24” square poster and a 28 page booklet with sleeve notes by Irmin Schmidt and Ian Harrison.
‘Lost
Tapes’ were discovered when the legendary Can studio in Weilerswist was
sold to the German Rock N Pop Museum. The new owners sentimentally
preserved everything, including the army mattresses that covered the
walls for sound protection, and relocated it to Gronau.
Whilst
dismantling the studio, master tapes were found and stored in the Spoon
archive. With barely legible labeling, no one was sure what was on
these until Irmin Schmidt and long time collaborator Jono Podmore
started to go through over fifty hours of music.
What
they found was years of archived material--not outtakes, but rather
tracks which had been shelved for a variety of reasons – soundtracks to
films that were never released and tracks that didn’t make it onto the
final versions of albums due to space.
Irmin Schmidt explains “Obviously
the tapes weren't really lost, but were left in the cupboards of the
studio archives for so long everybody just forgot about them. Everybody
except Hildegard, who watches over Can and its work like the dragon
over the gold of the Nibelungen and doesn't allow forgetting.”
The
final cut of tracks, dating from 1968-1977, features studio material
recorded at Schloss Nörvenich and Can Studio, Weilerswist with the Can
line up of Holger Czukay on bass, Michael Karoli on guitars, Jaki
Liebezeit on drums and Irmin Schmidt on keyboards, and on most tracks,
vocals from Malcolm Mooney or Damo Suzuki.
Can
was formed by ex-student of Stockhausen Irmin Schmidt, who, fired by
the sounds of Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa abandoned his career in
classic music to form a group which could utilise and transcend all
boundaries of ethnic, electronic experimental and modern classical
music.
Can’s
influence is well known and far-reaching and the impact they made on
music is felt today as keenly as it ever has been. They themselves have
always been impossible to classify and reflecting this, the scope of
artists who in recent years have cited Can as a major influence is
varied from John Lydon to Radiohead, The Fall to Portishead.
Richard Hawley: "Can
are impossible to classify and its impossible to ignore their seismic
influence on so many diverse musical paths, I'm so glad what was lost
has been found"
Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite: "I
can honestly say that there isn't another band who sound like Can.
Their music was of a future that we haven't yet arrived at. Influencing
people with their ambition more than just music we're incredibly lucky
to have found even more of their music to wonder at. God bless Can."
New Order’s Stephen Morris: "Can
are the most revolutionary band ever, hearing Monster Movie for the
first time was like stepping into another world. You Doo Right is the
reason I took up the drums in the first place. It's not a song, it's a
journey. I love everything they have ever done."
Wild Beasts’ Tom Fleming: "Can
are, along with very few others, what I consider to be the zenith of
how a group can play together; loose and sensuous, but tightly coiled
and always ready to go off; academically trained but gloriously,
beautifully casual. I'm not at all surprised that unheard-of recordings
exist, they sound like they just did it, every day."
Factory Floor’s Gabe Gurnsey: "Can
is pure escapism. I have great memories of driving back through the
British countryside after FF recording sessions listening to 'Oh Yeah'
over and over, dancing to 'I Want More' in the early hours and wishing
I'd written 'Quantum Physics'. Repetition is the platform for free
thinking, something we try to mirror in Factory Floor."
With a phenomenal canon of work that includes Tago Mago,
which celebrated its 40th Anniversary in 2011, The Lost Tapes is an
opportunity to hear unreleased material from this iconic band – whoever
thought that would be possible?
Watch a trailer for The Lost Tapes vinyl here: http://youtu.be/vsLWlVdIbk4
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