Sold Date: January 1, 2015
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CAN Ege Bamyasi 1972 UA 1st UK ISSUE w/PRINTED INNER - GREAT COPY CAN
Ege Bamyasi

ORIGINAL FIRST UK ISSUE (November 1972) WITH THE RECORD PRESSED IN GERMANY AND THE SLEEVE PRINTED IN ENGLAND
LOVELY COPY WHICH PLAYS WITH EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN SOUND

PRESSED WITH THE FIRST BEIGE UA LABELS WITH "MADE IN ENGLAND" BLOCKED OUT
MATRIX: 29414 A2/C3A Made in Germany / 29414 B1/C3A Made in Germany
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL DEEPLY GLOSSY SINGLE SLEEVE “Liberty/United Artist Records Ltd., 37-41 Mortimer Street, London, W.1. HK/ST/72.”
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL DIE-CUT PRINTED INNER SLEEVE

The follow-up to Tago Mago is only lesser in terms of being shorter; otherwise the Can collective delivers its expected musical recombination act with the usual power and ability.
Liebezeit, at once minimalist and utterly funky, provides another base of key beat action for everyone to go off on -- from the buried, lengthy solos by Karoli on "Pinch" to the rhythm box/keyboard action on "Spoon."
The latter song, which closes the album, is particularly fine, its sound hinting at an influence on everything from early Ultravox songs like "Hiroshima Mon Amour" to the hollower rhythms on many of Gary Numan's first efforts. Liebezeit and Czukay's groove on "One More Night," calling to mind a particularly cool nightclub at the end of the evening, shows that Stereolab didn't just take the brain-melting crunch side of Can as inspiration.
The longest track, "Soup," lets the band take off on another one of its trademark lengthy rhythm explorations, though not without some tweaks to the expected sound. About four minutes in, nearly everything drops away, with Schmidt and Liebezeit doing the most prominent work; after that, it shifts into some wonderfully grating and crumbling keyboards combined with Suzuki's strange pronouncements, before ending with a series of random interjections from all the members.
Playfulness abounds as much as skill: Slide whistles trade off with Suzuki on "Pinch"; squiggly keyboards end "Vitamin C"; and rollicking guitar highlights "I'm So Green."
The underrated and equally intriguing sense of drift that the band brings to its recordings continues as always. "Sing Swan Song" is particularly gorgeous, a gentle float with Schmidt's keyboards and Czukay's bass taking the fore to support Suzuki's sing-song vocal

Side 1:
Pinch (9:28)
Sing Swan Song (4:18)
One More Night (5:35)
Side 2:
Vitamin C (3:34)
Soup (10:25)
I'm So Green (3:03)
Spoon (3:03)

LABELS: EXCELLENT+
Clean, unmarked labels which carry light/moderate spindle traces
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Apart from some superficial cleaning cloth marks on the run-offs both surfaces shine like-new
VINYL Audio: EXCELLENT+
Even though this copy has seen a few spins it's been carefully handled and my play-check at volume found little to fault - an occasional one-off tick noted and touch of low-level surface on some of the quietest moments but generally this copy is exceptionally clean - one of the cleanest copies I have heard in a long while - a very strong EX+
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT
Again, a fine example with a deep glossy sheen to the laminated surfaces. There is some shop creasing to the spine/extremities and a small patch of laminate loss to the top corner (please see close-up photos) but in my opinion these are minor issues
INNER SLEEVE: EXCELLENT+
Clean and unmarked, some light creasing but no seam splits

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