Ege Bamyasi
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Studio album by Can | |||||
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Label (s) | United Artists Records | ||||
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Title (number) |
7th |
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running time |
40:06 |
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Studio (s) |
Inner Space Studio, Weilerswist |
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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
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Allmusic | |
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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
- For the 1997 remix album Sacrilege released by Can , the songs Vitamin C were remixed by UNKLE and Spoon by Sonic Youth .
- Stephen Malkmus , former front man of Pavement , and the German band Von Spar played the entire album at the WEEK-END Festival on December 1st, 2012 in Cologne. The recording of the concert by Stephen Malkmus & Friends was released on Record Store Day April 20, 2013 in a very limited edition exclusively on LP .
- The rock band Spoon named themselves after the song on Ege Bamyasi .
- The alternative musician Beck took a cover version of I'm So Green on.
- The rappers Kanye West and Mos Def used a sample from Sing Swan Song for the song Drunk and Hot Girls in 2007 .
- The song Vitamin C can be heard in Samuel Fuller's Tatort episode Dead Taube in Beethovenstrasse (1973) and Paul Thomas Anderson's film Inherent Vice - Natural Defects (2014).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Patrik Reinartz: The famous Can-Studio is ready for a museum (March 7, 2003) on Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (accessed on August 1, 2019)
- ↑ Spoon by Can on ChartSurfer.de (accessed August 1, 2019)
- ↑ The History of CAN on SpoonRecords.com (accessed August 1, 2019)
- ↑ Josefa Martens: The knife for the gourmet ( June 15, 2002) on Deutsche Welle (accessed on August 1, 2019)
- ^ Andy Warhol. Campbell's Soup Cans. 1962 on MoMA (accessed August 1, 2019)
- ↑ Review by Ned Raggett on Allmusic (accessed August 1, 2019)
- ↑ Review by Dominique Leone on Pitchfork (accessed August 1, 2019)
- ↑ Bakers Dozen: Portishead Choose Their Favorite 13 Albums on TheQuietus.com (accessed August 1, 2019)
- ↑ Thurston Moore on The Can Project at blog.barbican.org.uk (accessed August 1, 2019)
- ↑ The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time on New Musical Express (accessed August 1, 2019)
- ↑ The 100 Best Albums of the 1970s on Pitchfork (accessed August 1, 2019)
- ↑ Can's Ege Bamyasi Played By Stephen Malkmus And Friends on Domino Records