CAN Live In Paris 1973

Live in Paris 1973 finds Can in magical form in a performance recorded at L'Olympia in Paris on May 12, 1973, which features Damo Suzuki on vocals for the first time. From 1970-73, the regular line-up of Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit, Michael Karoli and Holger Czukay was supplemented by the Japanese improviser and singer Suzuki. They met through a chance encounter when Suzuki was a street musician in Munich; A few months after the performance published here, Damo left the band. This new album in the series allows us to experience the band at a particularly important stage in their career, as two of their most acclaimed albums - Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi, the latter of which feeds into the Paris performance - were only recently released. The recordings were put together for the 21st century by founding member Irmin Schmidt and producer/sound engineer René Tinner, who compiled and edited all the albums in this series, from recordings in the Spoon Records archives and recordings sent in by helpful fans. Formed in the late '60s and disbanding a good decade later, CAN have become one of the most important and innovative bands of all time with their unprecedented and bold marriage of hypnotic grooves and avant-garde instrumental structures, and these albums showcase the group a completely different perspective. You may hear familiar themes, riffs and motifs popping up and rolling through these jams, but they're often just fleetingly recognized faces in a swirling crowd. Elsewhere you can hear music that never made it into the official album canon. On these recordings Can go into even more extreme territory than on their studio work: from gentle, atmospheric drift rock to moments that the band nicknamed "Godzillas". And even as they adapt and chase the rhythm from minute to minute, you can hear the extraordinary musical telepathy that its members share with each other. The new release follows Can Live in Brighton 1975 ["Pure dynamite... keep them coming" - MOJO]; Can Live in Stuttgart 1975, [UNCUT's Reissue of the Year, #2 in MOJO's Reissues of the Year, #7 in THE WIRE's Archive Reissues of the Year], and Can Live in Cuxhaven 1976, which was also in the "Reissues of the Year " was strongly represented