The start of the live series: »Can Live In Stuttgart 1975«

»Live in Stuttgart 1975« is the first part of Can's new live album series.

»Live in Stuttgart 1975« and the upcoming releases in the Can Live series were compiled from the best available bootleg recordings and recorded using 21st century technology. Mixed and mastered in the 19th century. Can founding member Irmin Schmidt and the band's long-time producer and sound engineer, Rene Tinner, led the project.

The new album in five parts, "Can Live in Stuttgart 1975", documents an important and impressive part of Can's history. Since technical breakdowns in the 1970s repeatedly sabotaged the planned live recordings, they were missing from the Spoon catalog. Now the best bootleg recordings were taken and put through the mills of 21st century technology under the direction of founding member Irmin Schmidt and CAN producer/sound engineer René Tinner. century to present these important historical documents in the best possible quality.

Formed in 1967 and disbanded just over a decade later, Can's unprecedented and bold marriage of hypnotic grooves and avant-garde instrumental textures has made them one of the most important and innovative bands of all time. The new LIVE series reveals a completely new perspective on the band. You can hear familiar themes, riffs and motifs popping up and surfing through the jams, but they're often just fleetingly recognized faces in a swirling crowd. But you can also discover a lot of music that never made it into the official album canon.

The recordings go into more extreme areas than Can's studio work: from gentle, ambient drift rock to the infamous "Godzilla" moments. And even as the band members adapt from minute to minute and chase the rhythm, you can hear the extraordinary musical telepathy they all shared.

Reviews

»... the album is much more than just a contemporary testimony: a fascinating documentation of an extraordinary band in top form.« (Stereo, August 2021)

»The precision with which Holger Czukay on bass and drummer Jaki Liebezeit built the rhythm foundation has a hypnotizing effect despite audiophile weaknesses.« (Audio, August 2021)

»Like four furies, Irmin Schmidt, Michael Karoli, Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit improvise their way through their free rock set. (...) If the term 'free music' was ever accurate, it was in this live recording, which is as hypnotic as it is hyperactively eccentric from the first to the last moment." (stereoplay, August 2021)