Can Mother Sky (1970) HQ

Can Soundtracks Liberty LBS 83 437 I GERMANY 1970 Can did a lot of soundtrack work, for both film and television, so Soundtracks cherry picks the highlights and arranges them in a very intelligent tracklist. However, the real killing blow for Soundtracks is how it all ends. Mother Sky recorded in July 1970 for the soundtrack of Jerzy Skolimowski s film Deep End is fourteen and a half minutes of utter devastation. Probably the most scorched, searching guitar work Karoli ever released. Here sounds like he is unpicking the skies with his fingers. Underneath that, Holger and Jaki fuse into an inhuman rhythm machine playing some secret, primal, snapping, tribal stomp. When Jaki begins unleashing drum rolls, it is physically impossible not to move in some way. The whole rhythm insinuates its way into your body and takes over in a manner that would be frightening if it wasnt so pleasurable. Damo sings softly over the top finding exactly the right words to articulate what is going on, like s