Can's Tago Mago: Permission to Dream

Finally, a brilliant exploration of the German rock band Can's 1971 album "Tago Mago". This hugely uniquely funky and widely influential album deserves close analysis from a fan, rather than a musicologist. Novelist Alan Warner details the concrete music we hear on the album, how it was composed, executed and recorded -including the history of the album in terms of its release, promotion and art work. This tale of "Tago Mago" is also the tale of a young man obsessed with record collecting in the dark and mysterious period of pop music before Google. Warner includes a backtracking of the history of the band up to "Tago Mago" and provides for curious listener a detailed description of Can's unique recording approach taking into account their home studio setup in a castle called Schloss Nörvenich near Cologne, Germany.

Interviews with drummer Jaki Liebezeit and keyboardist Irmin Schmidt make this a hilariously personal and illuminating picture of Can.

CONTENIDO:

Part One
-Halleluwah
-An anatomy of listening
-CAN without the music
-"Like Can's drummer..."
-The terrifying Sex Pistols
-Mr Ian Dury & the Blockheads
-Swearing
-A "Record Collection"
-Van Halen and Bagpipes

Part Two
-A spanner in the sky
-Made in a castle with better equipment
-"Tago Mago"
-Can world
-Not a dream
-The Edits
-A single song which never ends
-Nostalgia danger
-The mistery of La isla de Tagomago

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