Comments for Can, Future Days And Past Nights

One more Can boot... Although the music is magic (as always) there is a lot to grudge about in this release. First, the media: The copyI have is a mere CDR but it has been certainly manufactured by"label", not by someone who has a CDwrighter and the theoriginal CD. The quality of the sound is crappy, and althoughthe cover claims that it has been recorded from "mixing desk",I would add "...to miserable casette recorder". The event tookplace in 1975 in University in Essex, England. Therefore it isa bit strange to see Damo Suzuki`s name in the line-up, since heleft the band by `74 anyway. Out of 6 tracks three are instrumentals and three feature some vocal parts, so muffled thatnot only you cannot figure out a word (with the exception of the last track), but indentify the singer; the voice might have belongedto virtually anybody, me included. Most probably it was Michael Karoli. The other thing in question is song titles. I amjust wondering why people behind this release decided that the third track is called "Dizzy Dizzy" while it sounds like(and probably is) instrumental part of "Bel Air". The only tracks which more or less correspond to their titles arethe first two. The only thing which makes me happy aboutthis release is music itself, the record depicts the bandin their FutureDays/babaluma period.

Although I have not heard this album, based on the recording date of 1975, it is most likely not Damo Suzuki and may also not be Michael Karoli. Can often tried out new vocalists for live material and never used them on record. There was a British vocalist named Michael Cousins who was with them for a breif period, although I doubt that is him on this recording since he was in the band April 1976 (and thrown out soon after).