Ege Bamyasi

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Ege Bamyasi
Studio album by Can

Publication
(s)

November 1972

Label (s) United Artists Records

Format (s)

LP , CD , MC , SACD

Genre (s)

Krautrock

Title (number)

7th

running time

40:06

occupation

production

Can

Studio (s)

Inner Space Studio, Weilerswist

chronology
Tago Mago
(1971)
Ege Bamyasi Future Days
(1973)
Single releases
1971 Spoon
1972 vitamin C

Ege Bamyasi is the fourth studio album by the German Krautrock band Can and was released in November 1972 by United Artists Records .

background

Ege Bamyasi was recorded between December 1971 and June 1972 and was Can's first album to be recorded in the Inner Space Studio near Cologne . The band moved into the former backyard cinema in December 1971. Previously, the song Spoon made known to a larger audience as the theme melody of the television film Das Messer Can and helped the band to break through. The single reached number 6 on the German music charts . In response to Spoon's commercial success , Can held a major concert in Cologne's sports hall on February 3, 1972 .

The album cover designed by Ingo Trauer shows a tin can (English "Can") with the inscription "Ege Bamyasi Okraschoten", the album title translates as "Aegean okra ". The motif is inspired by Andy Warhol's picture series Campbell's Soup Cans (1962).

The album was first released on CD in 1989 and remastered on SACD in 2004 .

Track list

All compositions are by Holger Czukay , Michael Karoli , Jaki Liebezeit , Irmin Schmidt and Damo Suzuki .

page 1
1. Pinch - 9:30
2. Sing Swan Song - 4:49
3. One More Night - 5:36
Page 2
4. Vitamin C - 3:32
5th Soup - 10:32
6. I'm So Green - 3:06
7. Spoon - 3:04

reception

source rating
Allmusic
Pitchfork

The album received very positive reviews and influenced numerous subsequent musicians, including Geoff Barrow , Thurston Moore and Stephen Malkmus .

The New Musical Express leads Ege Bamyasi at number 297 of the 500 best albums of all time. It ranks 19th in Pitchfork's selection of the 100 best albums of the 1970s .

Trivia

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Patrik Reinartz: The famous Can-Studio is ready for a museum (March 7, 2003) on Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (accessed on August 1, 2019)
  2. Spoon by Can on ChartSurfer.de (accessed August 1, 2019)
  3. The History of CAN on SpoonRecords.com (accessed August 1, 2019)
  4. Josefa Martens: The knife for the gourmet ( June 15, 2002) on Deutsche Welle (accessed on August 1, 2019)
  5. ^ Andy Warhol. Campbell's Soup Cans. 1962 on MoMA (accessed August 1, 2019)
  6. Review by Ned Raggett on Allmusic (accessed August 1, 2019)
  7. Review by Dominique Leone on Pitchfork (accessed August 1, 2019)
  8. Bakers Dozen: Portishead Choose Their Favorite 13 Albums on TheQuietus.com (accessed August 1, 2019)
  9. Thurston Moore on The Can Project at blog.barbican.org.uk (accessed August 1, 2019)
  10. The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time on New Musical Express (accessed August 1, 2019)
  11. The 100 Best Albums of the 1970s on Pitchfork (accessed August 1, 2019)
  12. Can's Ege Bamyasi Played By Stephen Malkmus And Friends on Domino Records