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Canaxis 5 - Technical Space Composer's Crew (1969)

In the past year, projects like Tau and JuJu have sought to look beyond the boundaries of the Western world and blend their psychedelic sound with distinctive sonorities, attempting to give their compositions that aspect we perhaps limitedly define as world music. Almost fifty years ago, Holger Czukay, even before releasing his first works with Can, recorded this album under the name Canaxis 5, which was conceptually and musically light-years ahead of its time. A student of Karl-Heinz Stockhausen, with this work titled 'Technical Space Composer's Crew' (1969) and created with the contribution of technician Rolf Dammers, Czukay produced two long sessions of experimental and psychedelic electronic music ('Boat Woman Son' and 'Canaxis') in which he literally reworked two tapes containing traditional Vietnamese chants. The first is a kind of obsessive litany, a track filled with mystical and hallucinatory visions, while the second opens with sounds that can be considered precursors of drone music, gradually expanding into a session of space ambient. The album then concludes with a brief original piece by Czukay, which I would place within the realm of experimental electronic music and directly linked to the lessons imparted by his teacher Stockhausen. An innovative work with a tremendous impact, whose greatness remains unchanged over time.

Technical Space Composer's Crew - Canaxis 5 (Full Album)