- Audio CD (15 Jun 2009)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Original recording remastered
- Label: Mute
- ASIN: B000VBIF3C
- Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 88,091 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Dizzy Dizzy (2005 Digital Remaster) |
| 2. Come Sta, La Luna (2005 Digital Remaster) |
| 3. Splash (2005 Digital Remaster) |
| 4. Chain Reaction (2005 Digital Remaster) |
| 5. Quantum Physics (2005 Digital Remaster) |
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
The second wave of Can reissues, freshly remastered by bassist/studio wizard Holger Czukay, keyboardist Irmin Schmidt, and engineer Jono Podmore repeats the trick pulled on the first batch, stripping away background hiss and muddiness and leaving these epochal recordings sounding impossibly fresh.
The pick is undeniably Future Days, considered by many to be the group’s finest hour: the last album to feature deranged Japanese vocalist Damo Suzuki, it sees the band working as one, crafting long vistas of blissful ambient sound powered by Jaki Liebzeit’s steady, machine-like drumming. 1974’s Soon Over Babaluma is an underrated Can moment, however: guitarist Michael Karoli switches to violin on "Dizzy Dizzy", even adding a hushed, mantric vocal, while the eleven-minute "Chain Reaction" offers the first taste of Can’s disco-influenced future.
Something of a mixed bag, Unlimited Edition is most interesting as an example of Can’s musical breadth: a compilation spanning five years, it features everything from the cranked Velvets garage of "Mother Upduff" – featuring original vocalist Malcolm Mooney - to "Cutaway", seventeen minutes of dizzying tape-splice experiments. Finally, 1975’s Landed: it’s far from a highlight of Can’s back catalogue, but "Hunters And Collectors" and the raging "Vernal Equinox", featuring some furious Karoli soloing, are not without their charms. --Louis Pattison
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Can simply baffle and entrance. If you decide that they're not for you, then you'll never understand why a surprisingly large number of musos describe them as the greatest product of late 20th Century music.
Soon Over Babaluma won't clarify your decision either way, though Dizzy Dizzy is one one of their most accessible tracks. It's a piece of dub reggae with blues violin, which merely leaves one wondering how anyone could contemplate playing dub reggae without a blues violin. The other obvious stand-out track is Splash - effectively a furious work-out by the band's two stand-out musicians: Michael Karoli and Jaki Liebezeit. Karoli plays a seven-minute, screeching, distorted guitar and violin solo while Liebezeit concocts a jazz rhythm behind it that grows in skill and complexity till it becomes simply breathtaking.
On the strength of these two tracks alone I would recommend Soon Over Babaluma, but there is more. True, I could happily go quite a long time before hearing 'Come Sta, La Luna' again, while 'Quantum Physics' (which closes the album) doesn't stand up on its own but only works as a coda to the rest of the piece. However, 'Chain Reaction', the centrepiece of side two, is a beautiful venture into the disco rhythms that were starting to make themselves felt at the time, and is only let down by its vocal (a criticism I will heretically make of most Can albums, regardless of whether it's Karoli, Schmidt, Suzuki or Mooney singing). If you're going to have a pregnant 4-minute intro, your first lines need to better than "Elephant... dominating..." Karoli briefly manages to sample a Doors guitar solo as well (Love Her Madly, if you must know).
If, like me, you can enjoy Can simply for the shallow pleasure of listening to Jaki Liebezeit's wonderful drumming, then waste no more time and put this CD in your shopping basket right now. If you're curious about this near-legendary band, then this isn't a bad place to start (better than the baffling Ege Bamyasi recommended by some reviewers). And, if you're interested in 70s prog rock, then this makes an interesting partner to King Crimson's Red, recorded at the same time and cited by some as "the last prog album". Both are somewhat minimalist, stripped-down works of focused, jazz-tinged, adventurous music - hardly prototype punk rock, but aeons away from Tales from Topographic Oceans.
Soon Over Babaluma won't clarify your decision either way, though Dizzy Dizzy is one one of their most accessible tracks. It's a piece of dub reggae with blues violin, which merely leaves one wondering how anyone could contemplate playing dub reggae without a blues violin. The other obvious stand-out track is Splash - effectively a furious work-out by the band's two stand-out musicians: Michael Karoli and Jaki Liebezeit. Karoli plays a seven-minute, screeching, distorted guitar and violin solo while Liebezeit concocts a jazz rhythm behind it that grows in skill and complexity till it becomes simply breathtaking.
On the strength of these two tracks alone I would recommend Soon Over Babaluma, but there is more. True, I could happily go quite a long time before hearing 'Come Sta, La Luna' again, while 'Quantum Physics' (which closes the album) doesn't stand up on its own but only works as a coda to the rest of the piece. However, 'Chain Reaction', the centrepiece of side two, is a beautiful venture into the disco rhythms that were starting to make themselves felt at the time, and is only let down by its vocal (a criticism I will heretically make of most Can albums, regardless of whether it's Karoli, Schmidt, Suzuki or Mooney singing). If you're going to have a pregnant 4-minute intro, your first lines need to better than "Elephant... dominating..." Karoli briefly manages to sample a Doors guitar solo as well (Love Her Madly, if you must know).
If, like me, you can enjoy Can simply for the shallow pleasure of listening to Jaki Liebezeit's wonderful drumming, then waste no more time and put this CD in your shopping basket right now. If you're curious about this near-legendary band, then this isn't a bad place to start (better than the baffling Ege Bamyasi recommended by some reviewers). And, if you're interested in 70s prog rock, then this makes an interesting partner to King Crimson's Red, recorded at the same time and cited by some as "the last prog album". Both are somewhat minimalist, stripped-down works of focused, jazz-tinged, adventurous music - hardly prototype punk rock, but aeons away from Tales from Topographic Oceans.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I've listened to a few of Can's major albums, and Soon Over... is for me the most consistently enjoyable listen. Whereas other Can albums are too sprawling/eclectic (Ege Bamyasi), too short (Future Days) or just too plain weird (Tago Mago), Soon Over strikes the right balance between accessibility and experimentation. The fact that Damo Suzuki has left makes little difference- his departure was hardly like Syd Barrett leaving the Floyd, and anyway, Can's music is primarily instumental, so it's easy enough to work around Damo's absence.
The album has a fairly jazzy and ethereal sound compared with the more strident rythms of Ege Bamyasi. It has the mellow feel of Future Days, but with more stylistic variety and musical colour. The opener, Dizzy Dizzy has a lovely stuttery vocal which is mimicked by Leibzeit's rhythm, while it showcases Karoli's violin playing. Come Sta, La Luna is like a slow tango, with some film samples and some nice guitar playing from Karoli. Splash continues the Latin feel with its percussion, but is offset with a squalling violin, before half-way through, the track mellows out slightly, where some nice 70s synth washes come in accompanied by Karoli's guitar playing, like a jazzier Pink Floyd. Chain Reaction is a very odd, but brilliant, funk/disco marathon. Its disco, but not as we know it, that is, filtered through Can's peculiarly idiosyncratic sensibility. Propelled by an insistent 4/4 rhythm, before slowing down a couple of times to a funky strut, the track closes with some frazzled freak-out guitar and percussion. The closer, Quantum Physics, is an ambient track which rounds things off fairly well.
Overall, I don't feel that Can's albums always quite hit the heights that they ought to (mainly, I think, because they're too short, and leave the listener feeling short-changed). But nonetheless, Soon Over... is the Can album I'd recommend.
The album has a fairly jazzy and ethereal sound compared with the more strident rythms of Ege Bamyasi. It has the mellow feel of Future Days, but with more stylistic variety and musical colour. The opener, Dizzy Dizzy has a lovely stuttery vocal which is mimicked by Leibzeit's rhythm, while it showcases Karoli's violin playing. Come Sta, La Luna is like a slow tango, with some film samples and some nice guitar playing from Karoli. Splash continues the Latin feel with its percussion, but is offset with a squalling violin, before half-way through, the track mellows out slightly, where some nice 70s synth washes come in accompanied by Karoli's guitar playing, like a jazzier Pink Floyd. Chain Reaction is a very odd, but brilliant, funk/disco marathon. Its disco, but not as we know it, that is, filtered through Can's peculiarly idiosyncratic sensibility. Propelled by an insistent 4/4 rhythm, before slowing down a couple of times to a funky strut, the track closes with some frazzled freak-out guitar and percussion. The closer, Quantum Physics, is an ambient track which rounds things off fairly well.
Overall, I don't feel that Can's albums always quite hit the heights that they ought to (mainly, I think, because they're too short, and leave the listener feeling short-changed). But nonetheless, Soon Over... is the Can album I'd recommend.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This was the first album after the departure of Damo Suzuki. Michael Karoli takes over the lead vocal duties as well as adding violin, both of which sit very comfortably within the classic Can sound. Jaki Liebezeit's metronomic drum grooves hold the whole album together in the same way as their previous work - so there is much here to enjoy for the Can fan. It is an album that is often overlooked in favour of "Future Days" or "Tago Mago", however this is still a very credible album, and one of my personal favourites. I also feel that it is a better album than its follow up "Landed". If I could give this a four-and-a-half rating I certainly would. This particular reissue also comes in the CD cases that are slightly rounded on the corners - which is a nice design idea and still fit into a normal racking or storage system.
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