#Michael Karoli

[jt1674]

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CAN - Sing Swan Song

Alb. "Ege Bamyasi" (1972)

Personnel:

Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit, Michael Karoli, Holger Czukay, Damo Suzuki

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CAN

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HOLGER -- MICHAEL -- DAMO -- IRMIN -- JACKI.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a rare live shot of German experimental rock/progressive rock/krautrock band, CAN, with the late, great Damo Suzuki on vocals, c. early '70s, venue & location unknown. Archive Photo by @chromedreams/Wolf Arnold.

Source: www.picuki.com/media/2939567307371149032.

[gummyartstradingcards]

[spilladabalia]

Can live on The Old Grey Whistle Test, 27/1/1974

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Listen/purchase: LIVE IN PARIS 1973 by CAN

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18/12/24

keele 77 zwei ... keele 77 drei ... keele 77 vier - can (live in keele 1977)

§IV ... §V - opeth (last will and testament)

[quinncesar69]

Can - Halleluwah

Amazing

[jt1674]

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CAN - One More Night

Alb. "Ege Bamyasi" (1972)

Personnel:

Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit, Michael Karoli, Holger Czukay, Damo Suzuki

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CAN

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FILE UNDER: PROGRESSIVE ROCK -- PSYCHEDELIC ROCK -- SPACE ROCK -- AVANT-FUNK -- KRAUTROCK.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a record advert for "Ege Bamyası," the third studio album by German experimental/ progressive/ krautrock band CAN, released on November 29, 1972 by United Artists Records.

PIC #2: A group shot of CAN, c. 1972, during the band's "Ege Bamyasi" era, sans Irmin Schmidt, who played farfisa organ, electric piano, & electronics.

Source: www.picuki.com/media/3403918072849802691 (Picuki 2x).

[bubblesandgutz]

Every Record I Own - Day 841 & 842: Can Live in Keele 1977 and Live in Aston 1977

These are two of my favorite albums of 2024.

It feels a little like cheating to add not one but two live albums recorded in 1977 to my list of favorite albums from last year. But it's not unusual for a "new" studio album to take a year+ in the pipeline of label release queues, manufacturing, and PR campaigns to actually hit the streets, so the year something was made relative to the year it was released shouldn't disqualify it. Or maybe you think a live album should fall under a different category when it comes to talking about best releases of the year. But those classic early Can records were essentially live records---the band improvised in the studio and Holger Czukay edited their jams into songs. There was a little less editing on these live albums, but otherwise the process was the same. And while you might hear brief snippets of familiar Can material on these works, you could also hear recurring riffs across their studio albums.

So as far as I'm concerned, these recent live Can albums are essentially like getting brand new studio Can albums. And what makes last year's two new installments particularly noteworthy is that these concerts took place the year Can disappointed fans and critics with Saw Delight and were arguably in a creative decline. But Can had switched their recording methods around 1975, upgrading their studio with a multitrack board that allowed them to piece songs together with overdubs instead of everything going straight to tape. The lightning-in-a-bottle magic that made records like Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi enduring classics may have disappeared from their recording process, but it was still key to their live performances.

The music in these performances can feel uncertain and atonal at times, particularly on the front end of the tracks as the five members bounce ideas off of one another and search for footing, but every composition blossoms into a propulsive, hypnotic, and vaguely foreboding exploration. Jaki Liebezeit's perpetual groove is as present as ever. Irmin Schmidt's synthesizer manipulations are still ahead of their time nearly fifty years later. Michael Karoli still keeps the band rooted in the guitar-centric rock world while somehow evading all of the cliches and trappings of the genre. New bassist Rosko Gee creates an even more locked in rhythm section. Former bassist Holger Czukay is somewhere in the background summoning sounds from a waveform radio and other unspecified non-traditional instruments, adding yet another layer of mystery to their sound.

Even if you're not a well-steeped Can fan, these live albums are an illuminating and thrilling dive into the hallucinatory aural world forged by one of the greatest (and strangest) rock bands of all time.

[tuesdaynightmusicclub]

Shan Tuesdaynightmusicclub's Top 50 Favourite Guitarists Ever

Still less embarrassing than Rolling Stone's!

50. Ritchie Blackmore

49. John Fahey

48. Marnie Stern

47. Peter Green

46. Pete Townshend

45. John Squire

44. Tony Iommi

43. Bob Weir

42. Mark Knopfler

41. Lee Ranaldo

40. Brian May

39. Hubert Sumlin

38. Kim Thayil

37. Masayoshi Tanaka

36. Carlos Santana

35. Eddie Van Halen

34. Keith Levine

33. Peter Buck

32. Dimebag Darrell

31. Mick Taylor

30. Dave Navarro

29. Wata

28. Eddie Hazel

27. Robert Fripp

26. Thurston Moore

25. Ernie Isley

24. Tom Verlaine

23. David Gilmour

22. Syd Barrett

21. Michael Karoli

20. Mick Ronson

19. Tom Morello

18. Mdou Moctar

17. Robbie Krieger

16. Jimmy Nolan

15. Chuck Berry

14. John McLaughlin

13. Glen Buxton

12. Guthrie Govan

11. Steve Howe

10. Daron Malakian

9. Jerry Garcia

8. Matt Bellamy

7. Frank Zappa

6. Buckethead

5. Carlos Alomar

4. John Frusciante

3. Johnny Marr

2. Django Reinhardt

Jimi Hendrix