Can

Soon Over Babaluma

1974

2005 Remaster




CD / 2005 / 320Kbps


Tracklist:

1 Dizzy Dizzy

2 Come Sta, La Luna

3 Splash

4 Chain Reaction

5 Quantum Physics


Personnel:

Michael Karoli – guitar, violin, vocals

Holger Czukay – bass, vocals

Irmin Schmidt – keyboards, vocals

Jaki Liebezeit – drums, percussion


Soon Over Babaluma, released in 1974, is Can's first album without a lead vocalist who does not play an instrument, following the departure of Damo Suzuki in 1973. The vocals are taken care of by guitarist Michael Karoli and keyboardist Irmin Schmidt.
It takes the ambient style of Future Days and pushes it even further at times; strong but subtle rhythms, perfect fragmented drum beats, collective rhythmic playing, fragile and beautiful guitar and violin, clever minimal keyboard playing.



Note: Krautrock is a German avant-garde / experimental rock movement that emerged at the end of the 1960's. The term krautrock was originally a humorous one coined by the UK music press (such as New Musical Express and Melody Maker), where "krautrock" found an early and enthusiastic underground following.
Julian Cope, in his book Krautrocksampler, says "Krautrock is a subjective British phenomenon," based on the way the music was received in the UK rather than on the actual West German music scene out of which it grew. The term is also a problematic category due to the considerable differences between the artists so labelled.
Key artists associated with the tag include Can, Amon Düül II, Ash Ra Tempel, Faust, Popol Vuh, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Neu!, and Kraftwerk.

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