Listening notes: listen to Can’s LP Future Days (1973). Imagine yourself on a wet day in Inverness in a debate with a room of music students. Though you were born in 1970, you have not heard this album before. You can hear rhythms that sound like a train journey, or perhaps placental pulsings. Your first experience of ambient music was through The Orb or The KLF, circa 1990. The students, though a third your age, think you should have started with Can. They have not heard of The Orb or The KLF. You think about words and tenses: can/ could have, shall/ should have. You tell the students you have never had a joint and never plan to. They will you on. You make to leave. You have marking to do.
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Ah, Can. My copy of Ege Bamyasi was stolen with the rest of my record collection, turntable and amp in “the great burglary of ’78”. Incredibly the hardware was later recovered by the police from a restaurant in Dunkirk, Nottingham but the vinyl vanished forever. I never replaced the Can album. I may have to go on eBay now…
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Dangerous territory. Perhaps you’ll find your original copy there though!
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