Monster Movie
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Publication |
August 1969 |
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1968/1969 |
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| Label (s) | United Artists Records / Creating Sound Factory Records | |||
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CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
4th |
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running time |
37m37s |
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Can |
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Monster Movie is the debut album by the German avant-garde rock band Can . The album was recorded in the year the band was founded and in the following year (1968/1969) and published with an edition of 500 copies.
background
Monster Movie emerged from a series of jam sessions in Nörvenich Castle near Cologne . Stylistically it combines elements of free and avant-garde jazz with experimental herb and psychedelic rock components. The protagonists of the work were organist Irmin Schmidt , who among other things studied eight years with Karlheinz Stockhausen and gained experience with symphony orchestras as a theater conductor, guitarist Michael Karoli , who had worked as a law student in Swiss jazz and pop combos, bass guitarist Holger Czukay , who Immediately before his Can career he had spent in the electronics studios in Pousseur and Stockhausen and drummer Jaki Liebezeit , who was involved with prominent jazz musicians such as Chet Baker and Manfred Schoof . The American Malcolm Mooney joined the band as singer .
The release was preceded by the two singles Agilok & Blubbo (July 1968) and Kamasutra (November 1968) as well as the album Prepared to Meet Thy Pnoom , which initially remained unreleased because the band's musical style did not fit into the marketing scheme of the record industry; It was not until 1981 that pieces from it were published as a collection of rarities and outtakes on »Delay« in 1968 .
In August 1968 Hildegard Schmidt (wife of Irmin Schmidt) met the sculptor Malcolm Mooney in Paris, who joined the band as the new singer. The original band name The Can (in the New York dialect also means "ass") went back to him before the article was later eliminated. Some of the album's releases had the subtitle "Made in a castle with better equipment" , alluding to Nörvenich Castle, built in the 14th century, where the recordings took place and where egg boxes and disused military mattresses served as sound creators.
Track list
- Father Cannot Yell (7:01)
- Mary, Mary so Contrary (6:16)
- Outside My Door (4:06)
- Yoo Doo Right (8:14 pm)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tracklist runtime data
- ↑ a b Rock Lexicon / Barry Graves; Siegfried Schmidt-Joos; Bernward Halbscheffel, one-time special edition, Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 2003
- ↑ Holger Czukay, Short History of the Can - Discography (May 1977)
- ↑ Broadcast "Elektro Beats" with Olaf Zimmermann on Radio Eins on May 30, 2012, 11:00 p.m .: Irmin Schmidt on the 75th