VIA PRESS RELEASE | “Their live performances sound like an epic story we are being told—a novel, with differing chapters, changing moods, weather, seasons and exotic landscapes.” —Alan Warner
Mute and Spoon Records are proud to announce the first in a series of long-awaited live album releases. Can: Live in Stuttgart 1975 is out May 28 on vinyl, CD, and digital platforms. If you think you knew Can, even after all the albums and through recently discovered material such as the legendary Lost Tapes, you’ll still find masses to surprise you here. This music is never the same river twice. In five parts, Can: Live in Stuttgart 1975 demonstrates an important and formidable element of the Can story—their live performance.
The Can Live series has taken the best of the bootlegged recordings and—overseen by founding member Irmin Schmidt and producer / engineer Rene Tinner—run them through the wringer of 21st century technology to bring you these vital historical documents in the best quality versions possible.
Founded in the late ‘60s and disbanded just over a decade later, Can’s unprecedented and bold marriage of hypnotic grooves and avant-garde instrumental textures has made them one of the most important and innovative of all time. These albums reveal a totally different perspective to the band. You may hear familiar themes, riffs and motifs popping up and rippling through these jams, but they are often fleetingly recognized faces in a swirling crowd.
At other points, you will hear music that didn’t make it into the official album canon. In these recordings, Can go to even more extreme ranges than with their studio work—from mellow, ambient drift-rock to the white-dwarf sonic-meltdown moments they used to nickname “Godzillas.” And even as they adapt and chase the rhythm from minute to minute, you can hear the extraordinary musical telepathy its members shared.
Can: Live in Stuttgart 1975 Tracklisting
1. Stuttgart 75 Eins
2. Stuttgart 75 Zwei
3. Stuttgart 75 Drei
4. Stuttgart 75 Vier
5. Stuttgart 75 Fünf
