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Tago Mago (CD)

By: Can (Artist)

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Can Artist Snapshot:

Though they were one of the key bands of the 1970s Krautrock movement, Can always saw themselves as individualists. They were influenced more by composers like Stockhausen than by psychedelic rock, but this seminal German band combined their avant-garde tendencies with rock trappings and funk-inflected rhythms in an amazingly natural way, influencing subsequent generations of iconoclasts.

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DISC 1 for Tago Mago (CD) Album By Can (Artist)
1   Paperhouse
2   Mushroom
3   Oh Yeah
4   Halleluwah
5   Aumgn
6   Peking O.
7   Bring Me Coffee Or Tea
 

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Review

Spin (9/01, p.134) - Included in Spin's "5 Essential Krautrock Records" - "...'Post-rock' starts right here....one tough, streamlined groove..."
Magnet (p.93) - "[The band's] groove-centric art-rock masterpiece..."
The Wire (p.62) - "[With] one of the most dazzling set-pieces in early 70s music."
Q (Magazine) (p.140) - "[A] mind-expanding double-album...whose most jaw-dropping item is the 18-minute 'Halleluhwah'..."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.126) - 5 stars out of 5 - "TAGO MAGO displays Can's psych-free and disciplined sides at their most ritually balanced."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.153) - "Punctuated by bursts of thunder and disturbing silences...it encapsulates the band's ability to demonstrate musical freedom within strict bounds."

Title Note

Can: Damo Suzuki (vocals); Michael Karoli (guitar); Irmin Schmidt (keyboards); Holger Czukay (bass instrument); Jaki Liebezeit (drums).

Personnel: Holger Czukay (bass guitar).

Recording information: Schloss Norvenich (1971); Inner Space Studio, Weilerswist, Germany (1971).

The influence of these seminal '70s Krautrockers on the alternative music of the '80s and '90s has been quiet but enormous. Blending the ethics of acid rock with a more forward-looking penchant for subtle sonic experimentation and atmospherics, Can dismantle traditional song structures to pursue lengthy explorations of pulsing polyrhythms, floating, associative guitar lines, keyboards, tape loops, hard, sometimes danceable grooves, and enigmatic, often indecipherable singing.

TAGO MAGO is one in a triumvirate of essential Can albums (also including EGE BAMYASI and FUTURE DAYS). The least "ambient" of the three, TAGO MAGO retains much of the group's early hard-edged, guitar-based sound while still creating tapestries of rhythm, space, and texture. Shimmering pieces such as "Bring Me Coffee Or Tea" alternate with full-fledged journeys into electronica ("Aumgn"), while the nearly 20-minute psych-groove opus that is "Halleluhwah" serves as the album's centerpiece. This disc is a crucial addition to any "alternative" record collection.

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