Can
Can was an experimental rock band formed in West Germany in 1968. Can constructed their music largely through free improvisation and editing, which bassist Holger Czukay referred to as "instant compositions". comprising bass guitarist Holger Czukay, keyboard player Irmin Schmidt, guitarist Michael Karoli, and drummer Jaki Liebezeit, along with original member David Johnson. Johnson, an American composer, flutist, and electronic musician, left at the end of 1968 after the band had begun taking a more rock-oriented direction.
Can was an experimental rock band formed in West Germany in 1968. Can constructed their music largely through free improvisation and editing, which bassist Holger Czukay referred to as "instant compositions". comprising bass guitarist Holger Czukay, keyboard player Irmin Schmidt, guitarist Michael Karoli, and drummer Jaki Liebezeit, along with original member David Johnson. Johnson, an American composer, flutist, and electronic musician, left at the end of 1968 after the band had begun taking a more rock-oriented direction.
Member of: Jaki Liebezeit
Live In Paris
* 2LP - Black Vinyl. Includes audio download code. Large format 4 page booklet with exclusive sleeve notes by journalist Wyndham Wallace * Mute and Spoon Records present the next instalment of the curated Can live concert series, Live in Paris 1973—…
Timekeepers II
a-Musik, the Cologne-based bastion of sonic exploration, unveils a new chapter in their quest for boundary-pushing sounds. Timekeepers II, a split LP featuring recordings of two duos by Marcus Schmickler with Jaki Liebezeit and Hayden Chisholm. Side …
Live Rockpalast 1970
Can, live from Soest, Rockpalast, Germany in November 1970. This remarkable set is the earliest full concert recording of the mighty Can. Performed in November 1970 for broadcast on the WDR TV show Karussell für die Jugend (‘Youth Carousel) in Soest,…
Bewegliche Ziele
* Limited edition including a colored 7 inch vinyl (transparent magenta) and 3 inch Mini CD. * It's 1981. Everything seems possible in the realms of music. The barriers between genres are being willfully torn down, punk is discovering the synthesizer…
Live In Cuxhaven 1976
Limited edition first pressing on Curacao blue vinyl. Includes booklet and sleeve notes. This carefully restored live album comprises the 1976 show in the format of a story with a beginning, middle and end, bringing Can’s performance to life. The al…
Soundtracks
* Limited Edition Clear Purple Vinyl * Soundtracks is a compilation album, first released in 1970, consisting of tracks written for film. The album marks the departure of the band's original vocalist Malcolm Mooney, who sings on two tracks, to be rep…
Monster Movie
* Limited Edition Mother Sky Blue Vinyl* With the sounds of Jimi Hendrix, Captain Beefheart and The Velvet Underground ringing in their ears, Holger Czukay and Irmin Schmidt left behind their careers in academia to form the influential group in the l…
Live In Brighton 1975
*Packaged in a 6-panel digisleeve with 16-page booklet.* "Live In Brighton 1975" is the second album of a curated series of Can live concerts. Available in full for the first time on triple vinyl, double CD and digitally. Originally recorded on tape,…
Live Stuttgart 1975
** Issued in a 6-panel Digisleeve with a 16-pages booklet ** Mute and Spoon Records are delighted to announce the release of Can Live in Stuttgart 1975. Originally recorded on tape, these carefully restored live albums will comprise the entirety of e…
The Singles
* 2021 small repress * This unique document is the first time Can's singles have been presented together and shows the breadth of their influential career, from well loved tracks like Halleluwah, Vitamin C and I Want More to more obscure singles such…
Future Days
* Limited Edition, Gold Vinyl Edition. Embossed sleeve. ncludes high definition audio download code * An uneasy truce had been thrashed out by the warring factions of Can by the time they came to record 'Future Days' in 1972, yet it is the underlying…
Delay 1968
Reduced Price * Limited Edition Pink Coloured Vinyl. Embossed sleeve. ncludes high definition audio download code * Although recorded in the late '60s, the material included on Can's Delay...1968 did not appear commercially until 1981. A collection o…
Full Circle
A total peach comes back into circulation with Holger Czukay’s beguiling, heavily grooving ‘Full Circle’, starring crucial input from his Can bandmate Jaki Liebzeit on drums and Jah Wobble weilding the bass
Instantly loveable for the grooving punk-di…
Tago Mago
Finally, a brilliant exploration of the German rock band Can's 1971 album Tago Mago. This hugely unique and influential album deserves close analysis from a fan, rather than a musicologist. Novelist Alan Warner details the concrete music we hear on t…
Horrortrip In The Paperhouse
The first five tracks on this Can release of dubious authenticity were taken from the famous Can free concert in Cologne, Germany, on February 3, 1972. This is the audio from the same concert documented by the video item of the out of print Can Box s…
Ege Bamyasi
**Limited heavyweight green vinyl LP** The group's fourth album, from 1972, originally issued by United Artists. "The follow-up to Tago Mago is only lesser in terms of being shorter; otherwise the Can collective delivers its expected musical recombin…
Live in Lyon January 1976
Amazing french performance recorded live in Lyon on the 17th of January 1976. The classic line-up comprising of Holger Czukay (bass), Michael Karoli (guitar), Jaki Liebezeit (drums) and Irmin Schmidt (keyboards), is here strengthened by malaysian voc…
Live In Hannover, 11 April 1976
High quality live FM radio broadcast of a concert that Can played in Hannover on 11 April 1976. The four-piece in brilliant shape surfin’ the cosmos with special guest Michael Cousins on vocals.
Monster Movie - Live At Burg Nörvenich, 25th July 1969
Recorded live in July 1969 during the same sessions that gave birth to their classic debut album Monster Movie. The album contains rawer versions of classics tracks such as Yoo Doo Right and Outside My Door. This was Can at the very beginning of thei…
Doko E. Live In Cologne 1973
Recorded in 1973 at Inner Space Studios during the "Future Days" sessions , this album contains the full lenght performance of "Doko E" a track which appeared on the “Limited Edition” LP. But where the original release gave us only a two and a half …