One of the incredible classic house compilations that -sadly- cannot be found on the internet anymore. That's enough reason for me to rip it myself. This is an unique gift for all house music lovers to enjoy.
Where their debut had been a mixed and largely unstructured collection of leftfield soundscapes, followed by Millions Now Living's surprising love-letter to Krautrock, the third Tortoise release, the all instrumental TNT, was almost a lounge album - but lounge for thinkers. You certainly couldn't call this a rock album, any more than you could call it techno, acoustic, ambient or jazz, but Tortoise take all of those styles and more, building fabulously fat beds of bottom end, overlaid with gorgeous multi-layered guitars, vibes and sampled found sounds, and emerge with one of the last decade's most endlessly satisfying releases.
With it's frantic, sampled drum pattern, Jetty could almost be trip-hop, (in fact trip-hop is the lasting after-image of the album), Swung From The Gutters has a vague jazz structure to it, at the same time throwing in backward tape effects, I Set My Face To The Hillside combines - almost unbelievably - both Spaghetti Western and oriental themes and so it goes, constantly bewildering, constantly enchanting. And then there's the divine beauty of the title track... (sigh)
Mere words cannot adequately describe how I treasure this record : wherein every song is a densely and intricately constructed whole unto itself and still the whole far transcends the sum of its coruscating parts. Best to describe my relationship with this record as a collection of associations and fragments: falling in love and a coffee buzz: Diagonals: angular grooves; driving at night: Contronatura: dark, effervescent pulses; holidaying in mountains at Easter: Brakhage and Parsec: shambolic cadences; above all, the company of loved friends.
Future Days, el último álbum de Can cantado por Damo Suzuki, es fácilmente el album mas ambiental y tranquilo que lanzaron en su existencia. Damo mantiene su voz casi al nivel auditivo de un susurro, en lugar de mantenerse en el frente como en los álbumes anteriores. Future Days es tambien el disco menos experimental de éste grupo alemán. En vez de inyectar el trabajo con extravagante y a veces nauseabundo vanguardismo, ellos eligen dejar el álbum en su minimo indispensable. Solo hay 4 canciones de Future Days y los vocales son contados.
El lado A contiene 3 de éstas canciones, incluyendo el hermoso track homónimo, el acechante Spray, y el corto y pegadizo Moonshake (Can en su salsa rítmica como en ningun otro momento). El lado B contiene una de las piezas mas ambientales del la historia del rock, Bel Air. Esta cancion multipartes de 20 minutos toca varios géneros, incluyendo ambient, que en el momento ni siquiera existía.
Éstas cuatro canciones ayudaron a crear el trabajo mas ambiental y balanceado de Can hasta la fecha. Desafortunadamente Damo Suzuki decidió dejar el grupo luego de éste album para convertirse en testigo de jehova (wtf?). Future Days es parte de la épica trilogía que lanzo Can entre 1970 y 1973, junto a Tago Mago y Ege Bamyasi y ninguno de ellos tiene desperdicio.
Genre: Krautrock, Ambient, Psychedelic Rock, Progressive Rock
Quality: FLAC
