Can - Future Days
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Artist: CanEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2008-04-15
Music Label: Mute U.S.
Soundtracks:
- Future Days
- Spray
- Moonshake
- Bel Air
Music reviews of Future Days
Music Review: The Ocean in my ears.
Rating: 5 Stars
Future Days by Can is such a grand achievement of progressive rock, that it literally gives me too much to write about to formulate a standard music review. Instead of focusing on the entire album, I have decided to only write about the final piece, Bel Air...I hesitate to even refer to it as a song. It lasts 19:52 and is set up in three sections resembling the structure of a classical chaconne form rather then a rock song. The first two sections last roughly 4:45 a piece, before the final section reintroduces the opening theme, while leading to an epic conclusion.
The astonishing Bel Air is built upon a set of chromatically descending chords that makes the very framework of the piece feel like it is continually melting at all times. It is as much ethereal as it is elemental, as if it is comprised of wispy curtains of air and water. At first I could not decide if I was being visually transported onto some Pacific north-west beach where the ocean is always bearing down in a continual vapor of grayish blue green sea air and drizzle, or if I was being tossed into the very bowels of the ocean itself. I have ultimately decided on the later. It is at the 11:49 point that a tital wave catapults the listener from the passivity marking the main themes return, into an urgency of such epic proportions and force, that one feels propelled through time and space in suspended animation as if shot out of a cannon...And oh man! The drumming in this first fourty second of velocity, with its subtle use of hyperventilating snares and cymbal paterns is so enchantingly brilliant that it is next to impossible to not rewind the music just to listen to this passage over and over again.
What happens next is the fire and brimstone of Bel Air, four straight minutes of tidal turbulance before the massive swell of disorder and chaos finally breaks upon a rocky shore in a continual dissapating draw of pulling chords and backwards rolling drum riffs, while over the top, a clarinet toned electric guitar flutters through the continual inhale of ocean break like an exasperated sea gull. This continual roll of crashing surf lasts just over a minute and a half before it reaches its conclusion, total stillness. For a full half a minute, the only sound is that of the keyboards pedal point reverb simulating the eerie unsettled calmness after the storm. Then from deep within the silence of the mix, out of the spent devistation of the tsunami, rises the urgent coda with its wondrous clarinet toned guitar soaring over the top of this continual melting foundation like the weightless wings of a hawk. This coda ends with a single exhale, as if some mythical creature like Poseidon itself just sighed with eternal satisfaction...I almost tremble at the mere thought of how magical this single instrumental groan feels, and Bel Air is full of these magical moments throughout.
Notice that at no time will my hand leave my sleeve.
This is what is in store for you if you buy Future Days by Can. What is even more astounding, is that Future Days is in no way superior to Ege Bamyasi or Tagomago. In fact, every single piece of music by Can in which Damo Suzuki was the lead singer is a five star must own masterpiece of progressive rock music. Notice again that I didn't refer to their music as songs. Can's music from 1970 to 1973 transcends the very boundaries of rock music, it may be an aquired taste, but that is only because what the standard person is use to pales in comparison to the epic grandure that is early 70's Can, and nothing is as symphonically grand as Bel Air in the entire Can repretoire. Future Days is that great.
Description of Future Days
Japanese Pressing. Damo Suzuki's final effort is Can's most atmospheric and beautiful record, a spartan collection of lengthy, jazz-like compositions recorded with minimal vocal contributions. 'Future Days' is an intense work, bubbling with radical ideas and concepts. This 4 track re-issue of the 1973 album has been remastered and comes packaged in a paper sleeve. Vine. 2005.Alternative Rock CDs
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