3CD BOX SET OF PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED MATERIAL
AN OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR UNRELEASED MATERIAL – BRAND NEW TRACKS
AS IF YOU WERE THERE – HALCYON DAYS, NOT OUTTAKES
The original track that opens the forthcoming Can album The Lost Tapes
SPECIAL NYC EVENT – APRIL 17TH – LE POISSON ROUGE
Spoon Records and Mute are delighted to announce the release of Can - The Lost Tapes; the long awaited box set of unreleased studio, soundtrack and live material.
The Lost Tapes, out on June 19th 2012, was curated by Irmin Schmidt and Daniel Miller, compiled by Irmin Schmidt and Jono Podmore, and edited by Jono Podmore.
When
the legendary Can studio in Weilerswist was sold to the German Rock N
Pop Museum, they bought 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 30 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.
On
April 17th at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City, Irmin Schmdit and Jono
Podmore will present “The Music Of Can: An Evening of Unreleased Music
and Discussion.” The two will debut unreleased music from the
forthcoming release The Lost Tapes, discussing the music with each other and answering audience questions about The Lost Tapes, CAN and their incredible history and story. For tickets, purchase online here:
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.
With a phenomenal cannon of work that includes Tago Mago, which celebrated its 40th Anniversary in 2011, The Lost Tapesis an opportunity to hear unreleased material from this iconic band – whoever thought that would be possible?
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