Can - Ege Bamyasi
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Artist: CanEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-02-05
Music Label: Mute U.S.
Soundtracks:
- Pinch
- Sing Swan Song
- One More Night
- Vitamin C
- Soup
- I'm So Green
- Spoon
Free Music Notes for Ege Bamyasi
Free Music Review: Still "Green" after all these years
Hit: 5 Stars
Where as the band's previous epic "Tago Mago" is best experienced in one sitting, "Ege Bamyasi" is much more of a song orientated album, or dare I say the Can version of a pop album. While the songs are still pieced together from grueling jams by bassit/sound engineer Czukay, they are mostly of average length with a great deal of attention put into establishing distinguishable verses, hooks, and a memorable chorus. The overall sound is very urban with a dark funk rock feel running throughout the album. World music influences are also much more dominant than ever before with the melodies and grooves having a very exotic quality. As before, Jaki Liebezeit's masterful drumming is the back bone of the rhythm based band as he lays out funky grooves that seem to be both involving and trance inducing. You could easily dance to these songs as you could space out and stare into the cosmos.
One of a kind vocalist, Damo continues his oddball stream of conscious improv in barely comphrensible languages and voices. Despite the spontaneous and dangerous nature of his performances he is mostly smooth and sultry on this outing. His unique vocals are usually what stands out the most but keyboardist Schmidt can't be overlooked with his talent for creating subtle but ear anchoring melodies. Karoli's lack of guitar heroics and big riffs further distances the group from the world of rock as he often just accents the songs with his distant noodlings.
The busy "Pinch" is a strange chaotic jam in which none of the memebers ever seem to take spotlight over the other introducting the group not as seperate musicians but a single living organism of music. The whispering orient kissed, "Sing Swan Song" is a soothing warm bath of a ballad while the cold "One More Night" grooves with a dark robotic nightclub beat. One of the more pop savy songs, "Vitamin C" swaggers with aggressive paranoid beats before erupting with one of the greatest chorus hooks of all time. The longest track, "Soup" explodes with blasts of violent Funk before heading into a lengthy exploration of the more trippy territory that recalls the nightmarish B-Side of "Tago Mago". The addictive "I'm So Green" break dances with cool, catchy, laid back funk before the suspenseful but hook laden "Spoon" closes the album with what sounds like the soundtrack to a suspenseful car chase. While more approachable than "Tago Mago," "Ege Bayamsi" is still a seriously strange brand of wierd German funk rock. While the band seemed to be flirting with a easier on the ears approach they still sound like they came from another planet. Still, the album is undeniably addictive with grooves and stylish hooks that still hold up as some of the freshest ever laid down.
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