Irmin Schmidt & Innerspace

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5...according to our Phil on Thu 17 Dec, 2009.

Oh my god... The holy grail of holy grails has surfaced! This is why I came into work this week! An unreleased Can album (of sorts). Crippled Dick Hot Wax have reissued the soundtrack to a film called Kamasutra which judging by the enclosed booklet looks to be a sexy German film (as if...) which has been scored by Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit, Michael Karoli and Malcolm Mooney. So that's the original line up of Can minus kooky goon Holger Czukay. Well exciting. I mean if Holger was there it would have better but you can't have everything! Anyway from this album they went on to record the genius work that was Monster Movie so this is an important historical document. On the album itself you can a reworked version of A Man Named Joe from Delay 68 which pleased me.... I've just gone to pick up the remote control and there's someone's crisp bits on there.... Man this place is filthy. The music is largely incidental and very jammy which is what you'd expect from Can but all the usual elements bits are there.... Jaki's machine like drumming, Michael's spaced out guitar, Malcolm's barking mad vocals (on some tracks) all composed by Irmin... I could listen to Jaki play drums all day.... And that is possibly what I'll do when I get home tonight. Completely awesome. You need this in your life!!

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Better late than never? A good four decades after its making, a rare gem is up for release: the soundtrack to Kobi Jaeger’s erotic and educational epic Kamasutra – Consummation Of Love composed and recorded by IRMIN SCHMIDT & THE INNER SPACE. A precursor to krautrock pioneers CAN, SCHMIDT’S 1968 recording assembles CAN’S original line-up – MICHAEL KAROLI, JAKI LIEBEZEIT AND MALCOLM MOONEY – who later went on to craft the band’s seminal debut, Monster Movie. The film Kamasutra – Consummation Of Love switches between India and Germany and stars Bruno Dietrich and Barbara Schöne. A prime example of late 1960s German erotica and the so-called sexual revolution, it liberated the subject of sex from dingy red light cinemas and whisked it away to the exotic Far East, to the realm that – more than a millennium earlier – had spawned the erotic teachings of the KAMASUTRA. Fast-forward to the present day and you will find the film’s well-intentioned, in parts pedagogical approach bristling with (un)intentional comedy. Many bands and composers from the late 1960s were intrigued by eastern philosophy and influenced by oriental sounds. Besides several laid-back, percussive instrumentals laced with flutes and sitars, the soundtrack also features three vocal tracks: ‘I’m Hiding My Nightingale’ (sung by MARGARETE JUVAN), ‘There Was A Man’ (sung by MALCOLM MOONEY) and ‘I’m Around You Everyday’ (sung by MICHAEL KAROLI). KAMASUTRA – consummation of love was mastered from the original analogue tapes by Calyx and is available as a CD digipack and limited gatefold double vinyl (both by Crippled Dick Hot Wax).BIOGRAPHY: Before IRMIN founded the now legendary German band CAN in 1968 he received a formal musical education and studied composition, piano, conducting and music ethnology. Amongst others his teachers were Karlheinz Stockhausen and Ligeti. Between 1962 and 1969 he conducted numerous orchestras including his own compositions. During this period he also composed music for various film and theatre productions. Between 1969 and 1978 he worked exclusively with CAN (in 2003 they received the prestigious ECHO Award for the CAN life time achievement).

TRACKLISTING:1. Indisches Panorama I 2. I'm Hiding My Nightingale 3. There Was A Man 4. Im Tempel 5. In Kalkutta III 6. Indisches Panorama II 7. In Kalkutta I 8. Im Orient 9. Indisches Panorama III 10. Mundharmonika Beat 11. Indisches Panorama IV 12. I’m Around You Everyday 13. Indisches Panorama V 14. Indisches Panorama VI 15. Indische Liebesszene 16. In Kalkutta II 17. Im Orient II

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