Ege Bamyasi [Original recording reissued]

Can | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 19, 1998)
• Original Release Date: 1972
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Mute U.S.
• ASIN: B0000067X3
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #240,310 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Pinch

2. Sing Swan Song

3. One More Night

4. Vitamin C

5. Soup

6. I'm So Green

7. Spoon

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Their best? . . . Certainly one of the coolest albums ever., May 29, 2002

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"richlatta" ("The War Zone" ABQ, NM) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ege Bamyasi (Audio CD)

This may be CAN's most fun album. My personal favorite by this band, the album starts out with a simultaneous squawk from the guitar, a crash from drums, and a smiling sigh from out-there vocal stylist Damo Suzuki. "Pinch" proceeds to loosely veer into dangerous and unpredictable territory for nearly 10 minutes. "Sing Swan Song" is subdued and beautiful, perfectly transforming into the rhythm and quiet feel of flowing of water that begins the track. "Sing Swan Song" also serves as a precursor to the more ambient explorations of their next album FUTURE DAYS. It also, like the lighter, airier "One More Night" features a haunting (without the "haunt") keyboard sound. "Vitamin C" is such a cool song. Jaki L. steps up the intensity with a poly-rhythmic drum march and M. Karoli delivers a sinister descending jazz-guitar.

"You! You're losing! you're losing! you're losing yer Vitamin C!"

"Vitamin C" dissolves into a computerized scramble which turns into the more challenging "Soup" - actually it contains a good song or 2 in there before it goes off the map into some fascinating experimental territory a la the wierder moments on TAGO MAGO. "I'm So Green" is truly the epitome of COOL (unlike what some frankly misguided reviewer wrote here). We get that great jazz guitar style again from Michael and an irressistably catchy rhythm that breaks into an even catchier one at the end - very smooth. "Spoon" could be the coolest of all CAN songs. It's trippier with a distinctive atmosphere, delivered in large manner once again by those haunted keys.

This band was so creative. This album shows them in top form. I know this music isn't for everyone . . . but it should be!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Beautiful Album, November 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Ege Bamyasi (Audio CD)

This is absolutly beautiful music. This music can take you off to another land if you let it. Can was a band of brilliant musicians,and were considered to be the best experimental band of the 70's. This album has a very psychedelic feel and sound to it,but also a gloomy one. It kind of gives me the feeling of a rainy day,but yet has a mysticl feeling to it. Songs like Sing Swan Song and Spoon are Dreary and surreal,whilst songs such as Vitamin C and One More Night are run on tight beats and funky rythums. Damo Suzuki's lyrics are basically incomprehensible but also add to the beauty of the music(especially the harmony in Spoon)Jaki Liebezit is one of my favorite drummers. He has some of the most complex rhythums iv'e ever heard eg:One more night,Vitamin C and soup. Michael Karoli's guitar playing is also brilliant and is pretty much toned down very much in comparison with their first three albums. Irmin Schmitt adds some "otherworldly" keyboard effects,and Holger Czukay is one hell of a basist, and a genious! This is a must have album for music fans of Psychedelic,experimental/avant garde music!

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For Mingus fans, September 30, 2002

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blind joe death (planetary surface) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ege Bamyasi (Audio CD)

Charles Mingus is my favorite jazzman, and I loved this release by Can. The two are not similar. In fact, they are in no way related. The point of this review is to make sure that Mingus fans are not frightened off by the reviewer below.

Thanks.