Track Listing
1. Jynx
2. Dizzy Dizzy
3. Vernal Equinox
4. Fizz
5. Yoo Doo Right
6. Cascade Waltz
7. Colchester Fiddle
8. Kata Kong
9. Spoon
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 2 | | Recording Type: | Live | | Distributor: | EMI Operations/CEVA Logistics | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes
Also available as part of a box set packaged with a video containing a documentary and live footage and a biographical book on Mute (9092).Includes liner notes by Andy Hall.Can was nothing if not surprising. It beggars belief though, that many of these recordings were more than a quarter of a century old before they ever saw light of day. In fact, what's most surprising of all, especially for a group who always thrived on experimentation and improvisation, is that LIVE 1971-1977 is the first collection of Can's concert performances.Can studio albums involved a certain degree of editing and manipulation. LIVE preserves known works like "Dizzy Dizzy," "Spoon," and "Yoo Doo Right" in their rawest trance-like state, but sees them twisted into new rhythmic shapes. Then there are the spontaneous compositions. Inspired by the ambience of their surroundings (even they didn't know what they were going to do), Can would take off on flights of fancy, coming over harsher than on their studio work, but redefining themselves every time. Jaki Liebezeit, surely as imaginative, dextrous, and reliable as any drummer who ever worked in a rock format, lays down a hypnotic groove. Nothing else is ever certain though, whether he's accompanied by some aggregation of a pulsating, white-gloved Czukay bassline, piercing guitar riffing, or white-noise keyboard violence. While Can's archive holds such substantial, organic music, we've still much to discover.
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