Comments for Can, Future Days

Bought this CD 2nd hand couple of years ago from the flea market in Geneva, just out of idle curiosity. Hadn't heard Can prior to this, but I think some of the best music known to mankind is actually contained on this CD! Very percussion oriented with orb-like sound effects and soft guitar feedback. 'Spray' and 'Bel Air' are moves the avante-garde jazz territory of Zappa's 'Waka-Jawaka' period. Vocals have (appropriately) hung back more in the background than on 'Tago Mago' and 'Ege Bamyasi'. Since buying other Can CDs I think is their most subtle, and some of it is on the same street as the ambient of the '90s.

It is delicious. Overtly it sounds like lazy Carribean-styled progressive rock, but there is a wonder of tasteful minimal stuff going on. Track 1 is as lovely an exploration of pulse and space as anything Brian Eno ever did (and Eno did hear this stuff, by the way). Along with "Monster Movie" and/or the compilations, this is the place to start an investigation of Can.

Dig that sound of bubbles being blown into a water-filled bucket through a vacuum cleaner hose on track 1 (which is, apparently, precisely what it is). Track 3 is an influential classic among many Techno freaks still today. And all of this recorded on a two-track Revox...

This album marks a new period for the group in the fact that it is more mellow than the previous albums. It displays the sound that became more familiar on "Saw Delight" and the later albums, but with the quality of "Tago Mago" and "Ege Bamyasi". This is also the last album to feature Damo Suzuki before he left to become a Jehovah's Witness with his new American wife.

"Future Days" track is worth the price of admission alone. Bel Air perhaps goes on to long. The angression is gone and so is some of the fun.

this seems to be the end of their heavy acid style days and the beginning of a more polished & sophisticated approach. Very, very tasty.

This band was years ahead of it`s time. This music reminds me of The Orb (sort of ambient)