
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.


