Hiele, Joachim Badenhorst, Wachtmeister, Lennert Jacobs & Milan W. play CAN'S TAGO MAGO (1971)
Exactly 50 years ago the German krautrock band CAN released four legendary records four years in a row. This history is celebrated together by Hiele, Joachim Badenhorst, Sergeant, Lennert Jacobs and Milan W. as an occasional band. They make momentum of an album once every year by playing it live in its entirety. This year they start with Tago Mago from 1971.
Krautrock is the most famous export of German music.
"For decades now krautrock has been appreciated, especially abroad, as the first original German contribution to international pop culture and its formative figures celebrated as great musicians. In the home of the genre it was not always so: in Germany people have really been able to acquire a taste for the music played back then by Amon Düül, Can, Faust, Cluster and Neu! only in recent years." writes German journalist Thomas Winkler in his article
The rehabilitation of a Genre.
"Besides Berlin, where a centre of the electronic avant-garde was established with Tangerine Dream, Cluster and Klaus Schulze, the Rhineland in particular became the nucleus of progressive German pop music. In Cologne, Can, a quintet around Stockhausen students Holger Czukay and Irmin Schmidt, freed rock music from the shackles of classical song structure and caused an international sensation with rhythmised collective improvisation." (Jörg Wunder)
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