Delay 1968

chronology
Delay 1968
Music album by Can
Publication ; (s)	1981
admission	1968
Label (s)	Spoon Records
Format (s)	CD, LP
Genre (s)	Krautrock
Title (number)	7th
running time	35:59
occupation	Singing : Malcolm Mooney ; Guitar : Michael Karoli ; E-bass : Holger Czukay ; Drums , percussion : Jaki Liebezeit ; Keyboards : Irmin Schmidt ; Saxophone : David C. Johnson ;
production	Can
Studio (s)	Nörvenich Castle

Delay 1968 is a 1981 published music album of the Cologne Krautrock band- Can . It contains the band's first professional studio recordings from 1968.

background

In June 1968 the six members of the young music group Can, which was initially called Inner Space , got together for a first concert at an art exhibition in Nörvenich Castle ; a recording of this concert was released in 1984 as Bootleg Prehistoric Future . The band then received approval to set up their own studio in the castle in order to be able to carry out more professional recordings. The first album completed in this studio, which, named after the saxophone solo "Pnoom", was to be entitled Prepared to Meet Thy Pnoom , was initially rejected by record companies, so the band went back to the studio to play the album Monster Movie with partly new pieces to record, which was finally released as a debut album in 1969. The pieces "Butterfly", "Uphill", "Little Star of Bethlehem" and "Pnoom" appeared alongside other recordings from 1968 and 1969 later on the Bootleg Unopened . David Johnson left Can shortly after the album was finished, because he no longer liked the increasingly rocking orientation of the mostly classically trained musicians.

When the band had largely stopped their activities after the release of their temporarily last new album Can in 1979, they put together some compilations with previously unreleased studio recordings. In this series, Prepared to Meet Thy Pnoom finally appeared in 1981 without the tracks already published on Monster Movie under the title Delay 1968 .

Trivia

"Thief" was later played live by the band Radiohead in various ways under the title "The Thief" .

Track list

page 1
No.	title	length
1.	butterfly	8:20
2.	Pnoom	0:26
3.	Nineteenth Century Man	4:26
4th	Thief	5:03
Overall length:		18:15

Page 2
No.	title	length
1.	Man named Joe	3:54
2.	Uphill	6:41
3.	Little Star of Bethlehem	7:09
Overall length:		17:44

Web links

Reviews of Delay 1968 on the Babyblauen Seiten
Delay 1968 at Allmusic (English). Retrieved April 16, 2017.

Individual evidence

↑ Holger Czukay : Holger Czukay's Short History of the Can - Discography. May 1997, accessed April 16, 2017 .
↑ Unopened. In: Allmusic . Retrieved April 16, 2017 .
^ Radiohead - The Thief. Retrieved April 16, 2017 .

[1] Holger Czukay : Holger Czukay's Short History of the Can - Discography. May 1997, accessed April 16, 2017 .

[2] Unopened. In: Allmusic . Retrieved April 16, 2017 .

[3] Radiohead - The Thief. Retrieved April 16, 2017 .