Can - Landed
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Artist: CanEdition: Music CD
Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-06-28
Music Label: Mute U.S.
Soundtracks:
- Full Moon on the Highway
- Half Past One
- Hunters and Collectors
- Vernal Equinox
- Red Hot Indians
- Unfinished
Music reviews of Landed
Music Review: Denser, but as eccentric and brilliant as ever
Rating: 5 Stars
Around the time of Soon Over Babaluma, Can were gaining so much attention that they were given a contract by Virgin Records for their seventh album. With it came a departure from the primitive "lo-fidelity" recording techniques that have made their previous six albums so acclaimed since the group disbanded.
For this reason, "Landed" has often been seen as the beginning of a downfall for the band or as merely "a great collection of off-kilter pop songs". In reality, as one astute observer whose name I cannot recall said, "Landed" marks the high-water mark of the group's experiment with unique dance rhythms, well beyond even what "Dizzy, Dizzy" did on Babaluma.
The atmospheric, funky rhythms of their previous two masterpieces receive a harsher edge owing to the more complicated recording techniques on one of the album's two epic pieces, "Vernal Equinox". Initially much harder than anything they had done since Ege Bamyasi, "Vernal Equinox" moves into a typically ambient middle section before finishing with a lengthy solo from Michael Karoli that is so intense and melodic it could almost be Richard Lloyd. To be fair, Can never sounded so harsh, yet so eccentric and haunting, on any other movement. "Unfinished", on the other hand, is very much in the vein of "Quantum Physics" before it and possesses all the same qualities that made that piece haunting and alluring.
Turning to the shorter pieces, the opener "Full Moon on the Highway" is a revelation. With the more sophisticated recording techniques, Can actually become less accessible than they were beforehand, yet Jaki Liebzeit's skill at producing the right rhythm and no more than that has never been so good. Even the synthesised vocals have a truly otherworldly quality that makes this song into one of the very best Can ever did. "Half Past One", the sole song from "Landed" included on Can's 1993 two-disc anthology, is slower and less startling, but after many listens one realises it does have a delicate beauty. "Hunters and Collectors" (from which a locally-famous Australian band took its name - one wonders how this record arrived in stores here) stands intermediate between the approach of the two songs preceding it. The whisperish vocals have an endearing quality to them, and the trademark Can qualities are refined to produce a tight, light yet lively piece that nobody has been able to emulate. "Red Hot Indians", with a surprising saxophone in the intro, showed that Can had by this point refined their funky grooves to a truly entrancing level.
Indeed, entrancing funk is the main musical element throughout the whole of "Landed", and whilst the density of the rhythms can be fearsome to the first-up listener, it is ultimately at least as satisfying as the more abstract elements of Can's earlier work.
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Description of Landed
Part of the essential series of reissues playable on SACD players (is a Hybrid SACD). Remastered from the original tapes by the band with beefed up artwork including rare and unseen photos.Alternative Rock CDs
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