CAN – EGE BAMYASI

Description

Can in 1972 was firing on all cylinders and at their most rhythmically inventive, bringing funk grooves together with kosmische psychedelic trance. Damo’s on vocals for killers such as “Pinch,” “One More Night,” and “Spoon.”

It’s of the same bold but accessible experimentalism of Miles Davis’s early fusion, the minimalist art-rock of the Velvets, and the hypnotic trance-rock of the post-punk bands it predated by nearly a decade. In its spiky grooves, its backdrop of atmospheric sounds, and the odd murmurings of Damo Suzuki, there is something as ageless as a primitive tribal ritual.

‘Ege Bamyasi’ sees Can at their funkiest, grooviest, and most accessible. The fourth album from the krautrockers blends avant-funk with hypnotic psychedelic rock, prog complexity and smatterings of early electronic. Stephen Malkmus has covered it in full, Kanye West has plundered some samples from it, and Can even scored a Top Ten hit when ‘Spoon’ was used as a theme song in a German detective show. All we know is this is an essential album of outsider rock with a rather tasty looking cover.