Can - Live In Paris 1973

Second phase of the acclaimed Can Live series

Recorded live at L'Olympia in Paris in May 1973

"As this time-portal demonstrates, their potency as a power force, ideal and totem endures and will endure." — MOJO 4

"...among the greatest documents of their untouchable alchemy..." — Record Collector 5

The second phase of the acclaimed Can Live series, Can Live in Paris 1973, is releasing on vinyl via Mute and Future Days (the new EU label created by Spoon Records).

Live in Paris 1973 finds Can in magical form for a performance recorded at L'Olympia in Paris on May 12, 1973. It marked the first of the live series to feature the vocalist Damo Suzuki, whose untimely death was recently announced. From 1970-73 the core line up of Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit, Michael Karoli, and Holger Czukay were joined by Japanese improviser and vocalist Suzuki, they met after a chance encounter while Suzuki was busking in Munich, and several months after the Paris 1973 performance he left the band when his wanderlust took him back on the road.

This new album in the series allows us to witness the band at a particularly important stage of their career, with two of their most acclaimed albums — Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi, the latter feeding into the Paris performance — recently released. The recording itself was uncovered and meticulously pieced together from recordings within the Spoon Records vaults, as well as those sent in by helpful fans. The live recordings were then brought into the 21st century by founding member Irmin Schmidt and producer / engineer René Tinner who have compiled and edited all the albums in this series.

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 bands of all time, and these albums reveal a totally different perspective to the group.