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Rating: THE REVIEW
The perfect album.
Beyond (way beyond) any genre distinction: rock? Krautrock?
Screw it, my dear friends.
Yet another page on this perfect album.
Tago Mago is, every time and for everyone, something different.
Here’s why.
An exile in a foreign land: the land of ourselves unknown to us.
Right from the start, the irresistible allure that the circumnavigation of the inner space brings with it becomes evident: “You just can't get back no more", the crazed Damo warns.
The paradigm of the journey — one might even say — in music. The direction, as always in music, is inward, not towards the world. Because, it is said apertis verbis, “You can make everything what you want with your head.” Exactly so.
Leaving behind the comfort of the known, finally rediscovering the discomfort of the unknown as one's own: this is the sense of the journey.
Its true engine is repetition.
The obsessive rhythm.
Centrifugal force and centripetal force, in precarious balance.
A journey of seven stages.
Each part of the path, like in a living organism, ends precisely where the next one begins, and merges with it.
Even in the emergence of pure and simple destruction of every rhythm, the journey has a direction.
What do we have inside, if not chaos and order intertwined to form a mechanism?
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Can's 'Tago Mago' is praised as a perfect album that transcends genre labels like rock or Krautrock. It is described as an inward musical journey characterized by repetition and the balance between chaos and order. The album unfolds in seven interconnected stages, each flowing seamlessly into the next. The review highlights its unique power to evoke discovery of the unknown within oneself.Tracklist Videos
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Can were a German experimental rock group central to krautrock, known for hypnotic repetition, improvisation, and studio tape experimentation. Key members included Holger Czukay, Irmin Schmidt, Michael Karoli, and Jaki Liebezeit; early vocals featured Malcolm Mooney, later replaced by Damo Suzuki.24 Reviews
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