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Tago Mago by Can: a Stockhausen-esque, which fuses an avant-garde rock symphony with shamanic avant-funk trance

Updated: Mar 20




With Understanding Comes Appreciation


Sounds and impacts only like itself, like no-one before or after. An attempt to achieve in 80 minutes a mystery trip from light to darkness and return. Three months recording with sessions often lasting up to 16 hours a day. Telepathic improvisation leading to instant compositions. Shamanic avant-funk trance. Unrestrained ecstasy and weirdness. Beauty and violation of any sense of beauty. Fear danger chaos mystery magic lost and found. Jaki Liebezeit’s mantric drumming triggering hallucinations seals majestically this timeless masterpiece. The latter is just an introduction to this state-of-the-art piece of music.

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