Mute and Spoon are delighted to announce the release of the long-awaited Can remastered catalogue on 180 Gram vinyl. Fourteen of the band’s classic albums featuring original artwork for each album, all remastered from original Master Tapes by Kevin Metcalf at Soundmasters in London for the best ever sound quality of this brilliant and extremely influential music.

• 180 Gram Vinyl LP
• Remastered from Original Master Tapes
• Cut at Soundmasters (London) by Kevin Metcalf
• Cover with Original Artwork
• Includes Download Code for the album

Out of Print on Vinyl for over 30 Years, the 1973 Album is Finally Back!

Future Days, the fifth studio for the group, was the last album to feature Japanese vocalist Damo Suzuki. On Future Days, the band explored the ambient direction they had introduced into their sound on the previous year's Ege Bamyasi creating a landmark in European electronic music. Future Days is fiercely progressive, calming, complex, intense, and beautiful all at once.

Can was founded in 1968 by Irmin Schmidt, Holger Czukay, Michael Karoli and Jaki Liebezeit - who formed a group which would utilize and transcend all boundaries of ethnic, electronic experimental and modern classical music. Throughout the changing eras of the band, they enlisted the talents of different powerful singers like Malcom Mooney and Damo Suzuki and collaborators such as Reebob Kwaku and Rosko Gee.

Can’s wide-reaching influence has never diminished, and their indelible mark is apparent in subsequent acts who freely acknowledge their importance – from Portishead, James Murphy, New Order, Factory Floor, Public Image Ltd, Mogwai, Kanye West and Radiohead to John Lydon, The Fall, Ariel Pink, Fuck Buttons, Sonic Youth, Factory Floor and Queens Of The Stone Age.

Originally issued in 1973, Future Days is the fifth studio album from Can and follow-up to their transitioning 1972 effort Ege Bamyasi. On Future Days the band employs much more of an ambient sound than on their previous records and this is the last album to feature vocalist and self-defined “20th century nomad," Damo Suzuki.

It was shortly after original Can vocalist Malcolm Mooney had left the band that they found themselves without a singer on the night of a sold-out concert. Upon spying Damo busking on the streets of Cologne, Holger Czukay just walked up to him and asked him if he wanted to sing at the concert; no rehearsal, just get up on stage with the band and sing. Damo, of course, accepted and the classic Can line-up was born.  

Track Listing:

Side A     
1. Future Days 9:34
2. Spray 8:28
3. Moonshake 3:02
    
Side B     
1. Bel Air 20:00
    
All music & lyrics by Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Suzuki     
    
Recording Information     
Michael Karoli: guitar     
Holger Czukay: bass     
Jaki Liebezeit: drums     
Irmin Schmidt: keyboards, alpha 77     
Damo Suzuki: vocal     
    
Recorded at INNER SPACE STUDIO 1973     
Written and produced by C A N     
Engineering and editing by Holger Czukay
  

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