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    All gates open : the story of Can / Rob Young & Irmin Schmidt.

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    • Title:All gates open : the story of Can / Rob Young & Irmin Schmidt.
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    • Variant Title:Story of Can
    • Author/Creator:Young, Rob, 1968- author.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Schmidt, Irmin, author.
    • Published/Created:London : Faber & Faber, 2018.
      ©2018

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Can (Musical group)
      Rock groups--Germany--History.
    • Genre/Form: Biographies.
    • Description:572 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
    • Summary:'All Gates Open' is a music book like no other. Its subject is Can, arguably the most important experimental group of the 20th century. Formed in Cologne in 1968, Can drew their influences from the avant-garde - founding members Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay both studied under Stockhausen - and jazz traditions to create a heavily rhythmic, minimal music that redefined what it meant to be a popular band. The book comprises two elements of equal weight: a biography of the group by Rob Young and a Symposium curated by Irmin Schmidt. The latter explores, in Irmin's own voice and that of his collaborators and admirers, the tentacular influence Can have had upon not just popular music, but also the visual arts, poetry and film. Can have been a direct source of inspiration for numerous genres, notably ambient, post-punk and electronica.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (page 355) and index
      Includes bibliographical references (page 355) and index.
    • ISBN:9780571311491 (paperback)
      0571311490 (paperback)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: Book One All Gates Open
      1. Dreams Seen by a Man-Made Machine (Prologue)
      2. Pandemonium Manifestos
      3. Mutter(ing)s of Invention
      4. Castle with Better Equipment
      5. Last Kick Towards Rock
      6. Thieves of Fire
      7. Truth at 33 rpm
      8. In at the Deep End
      9. Witchy Surprisings
      10. Concord of Sounds
      11. Wanderers in the Fog
      12. Perpetual Motion
      13. Bumpy Landings
      14. Wanting More
      15. Artificial Head Stereo
      16. Can Will Eat Itself
      17. One Last Rite
      18. In the Distance Lies the Future.
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