Can changed up their progressive sound once again with the experimental ambient jazz of this expansive mystical rainy day dream. 'Future Days' completes a trilogy of brilliant albums with Japanese lead singer Damo Suzuki that began with 'Tago Mago' and continued with 'Ege Bamyasi'.
It was recorded at their Inner Space Studio in Weilerswist, near Cologne, Germany with Holger Czukay on bass and double bass; Michael Karoli on guitar and violin; Jaki Liebezeit on drums and percussion; Irmin Schmidt on keyboards and synthesizers; and Damo Suzuki on vocals and percussion.
Schmidt looks back: “It was never an intention to make something before we started playing. We started playing and an idea grew. So the more laid‑back atmosphere of 'Future Days' came by playing. But I remember when we played ‘Future Days’, the track, it was a summer day and the doors to the garden of the studio were wide open and Damo sat on this cushion which made this funny sound — a typical ’70s cushion filled with these Styrofoam bubbles, and it makes this rustling, strange sound. And the tape was always running and so it was recording that sound and that became part of the track.”
Suzuki considers: "‘Future Days’ is for me the best album I made with Can. Because it was very easy to quit from Can after that album. I wanted nothing from them after that. Musically I was very satisfied. It was a really good time to begin a new life. I like ‘Future Days’. Nobody else arrived at such a space. It’s just a new dimension. With that album I was really free, it was no longer neccessary to make music after. I was not really at the front with ‘Future Days’. This time I was right in the music landscape. It was pure magic."
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'Future Days'
full album:
1. Future Days 0:00
2. Spray 9:30
3. Moonshake 17:59
4, Bel-Air 21:03
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