MINT SHRINK '70s ORIG CAN "FLOW MOTION" Krautrock Prog Psych Avant Cosmic
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MINT ORIGINAL PRESSING
C A N
"FLOW MOTION"
Germany - Harvest Records - 1C 062 31 837
BEAUTIFUL = MINT = ORIGINAL mid '70s first pressing
STILL IN ORIGINAL FACTORY CELLOPHANE
CAN was always a hard group to pin down, in part because they made a career out of re-inventing themselves from album to album (and just as often from track to track). But at its lowest common denominator their music tended to fall into alternating dark and light phases, and this 1976 effort was one of the band's brightest: 38 minutes of pure musical sunshine. And while the music is a long way from the brainwave grooves and iconoclastic Krautrock energy of albums like "Tago Mago" and "Ege Banyasi", it still hails from roughly the same cultural neighborhood, with a similar mix of eclectic influences, as always the only constant in the kaleidoscopic CAN soundstage.
All right, so this particular re-invention won't rattle your headphones like "Tago Mago". But even so far removed from the controlled chaos of their Krautrock roots, CAN was still capable of the unexpected gesture, like Irmin Schmidt's sudden squelches of noise during the otherwise unremarkable pastiche of "Cascade Waltz". Or the urgent industrial/tribal percussion of "Smoke", a throwback to an older, more dangerous incarnation of the band, and the latest in their ingoing "Ethnological Forgery Series" of sonic experiments: E.F.S. No. 59, to be precise, but the first to be featured outside the raw basement tapes of the "Unlimited Edition" album, released at around the same time.
Every CAN recording has it's own unique signature sound, and here it belongs to guitarist Michael Karoli. On the aforementioned "Smoke" he's credited with "background noise", but elsewhere on the album the sheer diversity of his talent is front and center in the mix, ranging from the fuzzy staccato of "I Want More" to his trademark bagpipe-like sustains, and even including an enthusiastically strummed baglama (a miniature, three-string bouzouki) on the vamped "Laugh Till You Cry, Live Till You Die".
And then there's the 10+ minute title track: a long, hypnotic jam over a slow but urgent three-note ganja bass riff by Holger Czukay, always a sucker for that dubby rastakraut sound. Karoli offers something close to a guitar clinic here, with thrilling sheets of processed noise giving way to the sort of relaxed fretwork familiar to any Deadhead, and finally indulging in some crunchy Superfly wah-wah pedal abuse.
It's a cool ending to an otherwise warm and engaging album. CAN, as always, has the perfect riposte, sung (of course) by Michael Karoli in the song "Laugh Till You Cry" and pretty much summing up the entire album:
There's method to my madness...
Maybe you don't see it,
But if I want to be a fool
Why don't you let me be it?
- Michael Karoli / guitar, slide guitar & violin (2), baglama (3), noises (6), lead (2,3) & backing (1,4,7) vocals
- Irmin Schmidt / keyboards, Alpha77 custom-built synth, lead (5) & backing (1,4) vocals
- Holger Czukay / bass, djin (6), backing vocals (1,4,6)
- Jaki Liebezeit / drums, percussion, backing vocals (1,4)
1. I Want more (3:29)
2. Cascade Waltz (5:35)
3. Laugh until you Cry (6:43)
4. ...And More (2:43)
5. Babylonian Pearl (3:29)
6. Smoke EFS No. 59 (5:15)
7. Flow Motion (10:23)
CONDITION: The cover is rated: MINT in factory cellophane ...has a tiny circle delete at top right, no cut corners...the fragile cover is perfect otherwise, top copy, no issues. Beautiful! Ages old discount store price sticker on outside of the cellophane
The vinyl is rated : MINT, played a couple of times only, maybe. No marks. mint audio! Clan Harvest labels make it a final collection copy!
A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTIBLES!
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