Can - Live In Keele 1977

Can — Live in Keele 1977

Double LP with etched D-Side

"Live in Keele 1977 is, for the Can-curious, a remarkable place to start." — Record Collector

"Live gem catches Can crushing it" — Classic Rock

The long-awaited album release of Can Live in Keele 1977 is available now on vinyl! Can Live in Keele 1977 is the newest release in a series of live albums that have been unearthed from the Spoon Records vaults and from fan recordings, then painstakingly assembled by founding member Irmin Schmidt and producer / engineer René Tinner, and this is the performance that has been most requested by fans since the series began.

The album is a dynamic document of late-period Can. Recorded in March 1977, the core line up of Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit, Michael Karoli, and Holger Czukay are augmented by the addition of Rosko Gee (Traffic) on bass. Gee's recent addition to the line-up meant that Holger Czukay was freed up from bass duties to perform "waveform radio and spec. sounds", manifesting here as otherworldly sounds, samples and what one reviewer of a later show described as "moontalk to a white continental telephone."

The new album is the newest release in current series of live documents that launched with Can Live in Stuttgart 1975, (Uncut's Reissue of the Year, No. 2 in MOJO's Reissues of the Year, No. 7 in The Wire's Archive Reissues of the Year plus more), followed by Can Live in Cuxhaven 1976, (which again featured heavily in the Reissues of the Year); Can Live in Brighton 1975 ("Pure dynamite... keep them coming" - MOJO); Can Live in Paris 1973 (No. 3 in both MOJO and Uncut's Reissues of the Year), the first of the series to feature the late Damo Suzuki ("a vivid tribute to one of rock's best improvisational groups" — Financial Times), and Can Live in Aston 1977 (The Quietus's Reissue of the Week — "It's undoubtedly music for mind expansion, but it stretches the brain in ways that remain unique — Can have always been purveyors of inner space rock, with each trip into the unknown as different as their shows").

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. This collection of albums recorded throughout Europe from 73-77, reveal a totally different perspective to the group. Through the series, you may hear familiar themes, riffs and motifs popping up and rippling through the jams, but they are often only fleeting glimpses of familiar faces in a swirling crowd. At other points, you will hear music that didn't make it onto 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.