2012 has seen the first comprehensive and official trawl through one of the most legendary bodies of lost musical work in recent history: the supposed "mountain of tapes" recorded by Can at their rehearsal/ living space at Weilerswurst between 1968 and 1977 and still presumably buried away somewhere... Well it turned out to be four filing cabinets full, from which keyboardist Irmin Schmidt and and his son in law Jono Podmore assembled a pretty stellar collection of unheard tracks, most of which have never been heard before.
But Can were always a pretty comprehensively and interestingly bootlegged band. Tonight Avant Gardening takes a trip through both the recently rediscovered and some of the still grey-area-only corners of this most stellar and organic of bands.
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Playlist:
1. Can, 'Waiting for the Streetcar' from the Lost Tapes (2012)
2. Can, 'Abra Cada Braxas' from the Lost Tapes (2012)
3. Can, 'Networks of Foam' from the Lost Tapes (2012)
4. Can, 'Midnight Sky' from the Lost Tapes (2012)
5. Can, 'Millionspiel' from the Lost Tapes (2012)
6. Can, 'E.F.S 108'' from the Lost Tapes (2012)
7. Can, 'Private Nocturnal' from the Lost Tapes (2012)
8. Can, 'Dead Pigeon Suite' from the Lost Tapes (2012)
9. Can, 'Tape Kebab' from The Peel Sessions 73-75 (1995)
10. Can, 'Kama Sutra 1' from Unopened (date unknown)
11. Can, 'Kama Sutra 2' from Unopened (date unknown)
12. Can, 'Outside my Door' from Unopened (date unknown)
13. Can with Tim Hardin, 'Soundcheck' from Outtake Edition (date unknown)
14. Can with Phew, 'I'm Your Doll' from Outtake Edition (date unknown)
15. Can with Phew, 'Hot Day in Koln' from Outtake Edition (date unknown)
16. Can, 'Up The Bakerloo Line With Anne' from The Peel Sessions 73-75 (1995)
17. Can, '15:40 (side 1)' from Prehistoric Future (date unknown)
18. Can, 'Moving Slowly' from Unopened (date unknown)
19. Can, 'When Darkness Comes from the Lost Tapes (2012)
20. Can, 'Midnight Men' from the Lost Tapes (2012)
21. Can, 'Messer Scissors Fork and Light' from the Lost Tapes (2012)
22. Can, 'Blind Mirror Surf' from the Lost Tapes (2012)
23. Can, 'On the way to Mother Sky' from the Lost Tapes (2012)
24. Can, 'One More Saturday Night' from the Lost Tapes (2012)
25. Can, 'Graublau' from the Lost Tapes (2012)
26. Can, 'True Story' from the Lost Tapes (2012)
27. Can, 'Bubble Rap' from the Lost Tapes (2012)
28. Can, 'Your Friendly Neighbourhood Whore' from the Lost Tapes (2012)
29. Can, 'Obscura Primavera' from the Lost Tapes (2012)
