Can - Live In Keele 1977The long awaited release of a fan favourite, LIVE IN KEELE 1977, is the latest in CANs series of live albums, released on Mute and Future Days. 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 and engineer Ren Tinner. This album is a dynamic document of late period CAN. Recorded

All that is here

the sentimental march of single The Second Shift plays out like an after-hours ballad re-imagined by Wally Badarou and For Every Window There’s a Curtain is coloured by the blue-lit haze of an Eventide warped tenor saxophone

Other superb re-workings include the delicately soulful "Butterfly"

McEwan is particularly proud of the dreamy “Sherbert Straws

percussion and field recordings into a hushed

is given the full EMA treatment with the addition of emotive horns over an uncomfortably sparse rhythm track peppered with Liam’s voice drenched in delay and echo

With lyrics intentionally impressionistic and open-ended

C1 The Association (2)– Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies

a retrospective on Tamil film composer Ilaiyaraaja

colour and feeling

sitting plush with layers of all-consuming strings and mellotron

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