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In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the release of CAN’s convention-shifting album Tago Mago, Spoon Records have given the record a new lease of life. Packaged in its original 1971 UK artwork and containing an extra CD with 50 minutes of previously unreleased live material, the re-release is a worthy tribute to what was a genre-defining work of psychedelic, experimental rock music.
Tracks
CD1
1. Paperhouse (07:29)
2. Mushroom (04:04)
3. Oh Yeah (07:23)
4. Halleluwah (18:33)
5. Aumgn (17:37)
6. Peking O (11:38)
7. Bring me Coffee or Tea (06:47)
CD2
1. Mushroom (live 1972) (08:42)
2. Spoon (live 1972) (29:55)
3. Halleluwah (live 1972) (09:12)
The new edition of this genre-defying album comes packaged in the original UK artwork for the first time since 1971, and includes a bonus CD featuring 50 minutes of unreleased live material from 1972, remastered in 2011.
Tago Mago the first album with Damo Suzuki on vocals, features the CAN line up of Holger Czukay on bass, Michael Karoli on guitars, Jaki Liebezeit on drums and Irmin Schmidt on keyboards, and was recorded at Schloss Nörvenich in 1971, released later that year on United Artists.
CAN’s influence is well known and far-reaching and the impact they made on music is felt today as keenly as it ever has been. They themselves have always been impossible to classify and reflecting this, the scope of artists who in recent years have cited CAN as a major influence is varied. Of all the band’s oeuvre, Tago Mago has been most often cited as an influence for a host of artists including John Lydon, Radiohead, The Fall, Ariel Pink, Sonic Youth, Factory Floor and Queens Of The Stone Age.
