Soundtracks (Can album)

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Soundtracks
Soundtracks cover
Soundtrack by Can
Released 1970
Recorded 1970
Genre Krautrock
Length 35:09
Label Mute
Producer Can
Professional reviews
Can chronology
Monster Movie
(1969)
Soundtracks
(1970)
Tago Mago
(1971)

Soundtracks is a soundtrack album by the Krautrock group Can. It was first released in 1970 and consists of tracks written for various films. The album marks the departure of the band's original vocalist Malcolm Mooney, who sings on two tracks, to be replaced by new member Damo Suzuki. Stylistically, the record also documents the transition from the psychedelia-inspired jams of their first recordings (i.e., "Monster Movie" and "Delay 1968") to the more meditative, electronic, and experimental mode of the studio albums that followed (such as "Tago Mago" and "Ege Bamyasi").

The track "She Brings The Rain" was later featured in Lisbon Story and in the 2000 Oskar Roehler film "Die Unberührbare."

In March 2005, Q magazine placed "Mother Sky" at number 48 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Deadlock" – 3:27 (from the film "Deadlock," 1970, dir. Roland Klick)
  2. "Tango Whiskyman" – 4:04 (from the film "Deadlock," 1970, dir. Roland Klick)
  3. "Deadlock (Titelmusik)" – 1:40 (from the film "Deadlock," 1970, dir. Roland Klick)
  4. "Don't Turn the Light On, Leave Me Alone" – 3:42 (from the film "Cream")
  5. "Soul Desert" – 3:48 (from the film "Mädchen... nur mit Gewalt," 1970, dir. Roger Fritz. Cited on album sleeve as "Mädchen mit Gewalt")
  6. "Mother Sky" – 14:31 (from the film "Deep End," 1971, dir. Jerzy Skolimowski)
  7. "She Brings the Rain" – 4:04 (from the film "Bottom - Ein großer graublauer Vogel" 1971, dir. Thomas Schamoni)

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