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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Trance-rock for the ages, May 9, 2008
Hearing Ege Bamyasi for the first time, more than 30 years after its initial release, cut though years of jaded rock fandom. It brought back the same tangy shock of discovery I felt when I first heard the Velvet Underground, or saw bands like Magazine, Patti Smith, and the Sex Pistols on late-night TV, and started buying records in the first place.
It's of the same bold but accessible experimentalism of Miles Davis's early fusion, the minimalist art-rock of the Velvets, and the hypnotic trance-rock of the post-punk bands it predated by nearly a decade. In its spiky grooves, its backdrop of atmospheric sounds, and the odd murmurings of Damo Suzuki is something as ageless as a primitive tribal ritual.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best funk-psychedelic-jazzy-space rock-jam album ever?, December 16, 2008
Few bands can boast a sound that's as original, distinctive and influential as Can's heyday albums. 1971's "Tago Mago" was Can's superb surge into the limelight, but side two's incessant sonic attack makes it hard to digest, and at times feels a little dated. "Ege Bamyasi" on the other hand is concise, pure and unadulterated Can. More direct, yet maintaining all the funky, darkly psychedelic overtones that makes up their signature sound. As always the foundations are laid down by drummer extraordinaire Jaki Liebezeit, evident immediately with the ferocious rhythmic throat-clearing of "Pinch". "Vitamin C" and "I'm So Green" are a master class in psychedelic funk, extremely physical, raw and energetic and both showcasing Damo Suzuki at his wild best. While "Ege Bamyasi" lacks the flamboyant avant-garde ramblings of "Tago Mago", there is room for experimentation within the extended "Soup", which ends in a flourish of dizzying ambience. And then there's the centre-point, the gloriously sombre and brooding "Sing Swan Song", quite possibly my favourite Can. "Ege Bamyasi" is an album rightly heralded as a pinnacle to the krautrock and 70s experimental movement. Highly recommended.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
more greatness, February 25, 2009
Tago Mago, 1971, is widely and justly throught of as Can's masterwork: a sprawling double album of funk and expermentation.
Yet this disc is in some ways more intense: the songs are shorter, the funk has more bite, the nuances are darker, and the avant gaurde section of the album, "soup," --filled with Damo's demonic scatting and some amazing electronic doom--is far more dence and edgey than any work Can had previously done.
This is an album that truely tears apart your system and then puts it back together.
So never make the mistake of thinking if you own Tago you have all the Can you need. No, not by a long shot.
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