Can
Tago Mago (2LP)
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condition (records/cover): EX+ / VG+ (light general wear)
Non-textured gimmick sleeve with single pocket and fold over opening flap.
By Tago Mago, Can had swapped one vocalist for another: the Japanese street singer Damo Suzuki, recruited from a Munich pavement and onstage with them the same evening. Spread over two records and taped in a rented castle at Nörvenich, the 1971 album is the group at full extension. The first disc keeps a foothold in song with Mushroom and Oh Yeah; the second lets go entirely, into the eighteen-minute locked groove of Halleluhwah and the tape-spliced murk of Aumgn and Peking O. United Artists put it out, and everyone since, post-punk Britain and the Chicago underground included, has treated it as a source text.
Few records argue this persuasively that repetition can be a form of freedom.
Release notes
NON-textured, non-laminated, semi-glossy gimmick sleeve with single pocket and fold over opening flap. This version's labels: Sides 1&2 have a more stretched in length font for 'TAGO MAGO' and 'CAN', whereas on side 3&4 these words are in a stretched in height font. All four sides have publishing credits to 'Essex Music Int.'. All four sides have 'Liberty-United Artists' in the rim text. All four sides have '℗1971' dates. All four sides have side number designations in numerals, e.g. 'Side 1'.…
| A1 | Paperhouse | 7:29 | |
| A2 | Mushroom | 4:08 | |
| A3 | Oh Yeah | 7:22 | |
| B | Halleluwah | 18:32 | |
| C | Aumgn | 17:22 | |
| D1 | Peking O. | 11:35 | |
| D2 | Bring Me Coffee Or Tea | 6:47 |
- Holger Czukay
- Bass
- Jaki Liebezeit
- Drums
- Michael Karoli
- Guitar
- Irmin Schmidt
- Organ, Electric Piano
- Can
- Producer, Arranged By
- Damo Suzuki
- Vocals
