Can | Halleluwah | Live | 1971 [50th Anniversary Restoration]
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- My restoration of this early live video of Can, performing Halleluwah, a track originally from their album Tago Mago, which was released 50 years ago this month, August 1971.
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Moon shadow coming down...
Can’s Tago Mago is a masterpiece, and Halleluwah, which at 18+ minutes long, took up the entirety of side two of the original vinyl release, always feels to me like the centrepiece of the album. Halleluwah is (Wiki:) characteristic of the band's sound around 1971 in that it features a vast array of improvised guitars and keyboards, tape editing, and the rhythm section "pounding out a monster trance/funk beat". The drum beat for which the song is famous is repeated almost continuously by Jaki Liebezeit, with only minor variations, throughout the course of the 18-minute jam. In one line of the song, Damo Suzuki's lyrics mention all the songs from side one of Tago Mago: "mushroom head, oh yeah, paper house."
This early live version of Halleluwah is played faster and is more concise than the studio version, at only about 6 minutes long. Neither sound or visual quality of the original clip is really great, but it’s all we’ve got of Halleluwah from the era.
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Can came to me in the mid-80’s. My colleague at Virgin Records High Street Croydon, Richard Bentley, from the band Circus Circus Circus, had made me a compilation tape, and featured on it was Moonshake by Can, from their 1973 Future Days album. I was blown away by Future Days. It and Soon Over Babaluma soon became a mainstay of many smashed out of my brain post-rave all-nighters, throughout the late-80’s and early-90’s. The extraordinary music of Can is so profoundly etched into my subconscious from those deep, deep listening sessions.
I met Can keyboardist Irmin Schmidt once. It was in the early 90's at Midem, the annual music industry convention in Cannes. I was buying vinyl from Can's label, Spoon Records, for the music distributor I worked for. My boss knew I was a huge Can fan. He sprung a surprise on me... and suddenly I'm shaking hands with the guy who had contributed such an important part of the soundtrack of my life with his euphoric music. I did what I always do when I meet a personal hero: I was dumbstruck, and mumbled something to Mr. Schmidt that was probably quite incoherent.
A little later, I was lucky enough to see one of the Can-Solo-Projects shows, at the Barbican in London in '99. Michael Karoli, Irmin Schmidt, and Jaki Liebezeit played separate sets. Two years after that show, Michael Karoli passed away, and last year we lost both Jaki Liebezeit, and Holger Czukay, leaving Irmin Schmidt as the only surviving long-term member of Can.
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To my knowledge, in recent times, there has only been one broadcast of the live ’71 Halleluwah footage - in 2006 as part of a series of shows called Die Deutschrock Nacht, on the German TV station WDR. UA-cam contains several versions of the clip, taken from that show. All the ones I am aware of, uploaded over the years, are of quite poor quality. It’s understandable - the source material is not great to begin with - the picture is grainy, flat and colorless and it contains a lot of scratches and blemishes. The audio is mono and flat and is running out of sync with the video.
For my fix, I went through the original footage, frame by frame and “removed” the most distracting of the blemishes. Then I separated the two camera angles and rebalanced and filtered them separately. Some of the previous UA-cam uploaders have created quite imaginative versions of the clip, rearranging the two camera sources and adding various digital effects. When I was recombining the two camera angles, I tried several creative things myself, but I couldn’t come up with anything that satisfied me. And so I settled on a relatively straightforward enhanced version of the original.
On the audio side, I properly synced the track to the video and EQ’d it, significantly enhancing the lower frequencies and added subtle fake stereo.
Thanks for watching, hope you dig it!
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Credits
Audio and video:
Can • Halleluwah • Live 1971 • Unknown concert • Shown as part of Die Deutschrock Nacht, on WDR in 2006
Original studio version of Halleluwah from the Can album Tago Mago • Recorded November 1970 to February 1971. Originally released in Germany in August 1971
Musicians:
Jaki Liebezeit • drums
Holger Czukay • bass
Michael Karoli • guitar
Irmin Schmidt • organ
Damo Suzuki • vocals
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Rest In Peace Damo! Your spirit will always live on this planet ❤
Damo Suzuki is still active as a musician at the age of 73. For me he is the definitive voice of my favourite band Can
He just passed away 😞
Jaki really was on another level wow
Shaun Ryder said these must have been an influence on the Mondays even though they'd never actually heard them! I can hear it. The rhythm and guitar is so far ahead of it's time.
You are so right and I never noticed it and it makes no sense from Hacienda origins but still
Wow! Can’t unhear it now.
The whole "Bummed" album could've been a Can hommage album in a way
Shaun Ryder is the little brother of Damo Suzuki...😂
@@juanantonioalvareztello570 haha theyre quite similar
Sad that only one remains. Long live Irmin, and RIP Michael, Holger, Jaki and Damo.
There's still Malcolm
@@corrupt7724 Indeed. I was referring to the ones on stage here. So sad to see legends pass.
RIP Damo!
That drum rhythm is truly trance inducing. The gems you restore- always AMAZING Nacho! 💥
one of the giants of the 70s, really cool, creative, innovative group
Revealing footage. Jaki's playing the full studio drums live & Irmin reinforces that kick action on the low end of the Farfisa at some points.
jaki is one of the best. he has no equal as a drummer and he just does things that are out of this world.
@@thevoid99 Jaki's playing like he has three feet. I'm looking at the footage & can't figure out how he's playing that pattern.
@@bigneon_glitter yeah same. And you might be interested; I tried a rudimentary sync of the footage with the album audio. Other than the speed drifting in and out, in the first half of the track, the drum patterns are often a complete match. As are Damo’s vocals.
Jaki’s playing here is absolutely incredible!
'Moon shadow coming down ...' Thanks for further cleaning up what is a complete gem from history: 50 years! It just flies by ...
With Yes, I never knew what Jon Andersons words meant. With Can I never knew what the words were.
My favourite music, 'cos it's more than just music.
Mind blowing 52 years later! Can was amazing! Their music will live forever!
jaki so sublime
TAGO MAGO! One of the Best Lps Ever! EGE BAMYASI is another Gem! Damo Suzuki on vocals with CAN in a wonderful performance!
No words💕!!!!
I don’t know much about Can - this has inspired me to check them out. Great stuff.
These guys are just the right amount of stoned here, in the sweet spot.
CAN wow
RIP Damo
Uauuu bello questo video , anni interessanti musicalmente 👍👏👏👏CIAO Nacho 😘
Siii interessate 😘ciao viola bacia tutti 💋💋💋💋
Jaki is my hero
very very good band...............................................................................................................................
Magic performance, many thanks for posting ;-D
Hey Nacho, you are a man of vast musical tastes.. and i love it.. just like me. This has been an interesting one and i loved your story about your meeting with that legendary figure of rock. My instant thought when this played was Iron Butterfly's psychedelic fortress song, In A Gadda Da Vida. Its hailed as one of the greats of the 60s and the album sold 30million units in 1968/9 and theres around 30k comments on UA-cam for it. Their Iron Butterfly Theme is perhaps the greatest instrumental song of the 60s. Ive never heard such a giant guitar sound as this. Its like a WW2 bomber crashing. Ive loved both these songs since my older brother had the singles in 1971, i was 11. Thanks for your wonderful story and giving us your great work on this early 70s Can classic.
Thank you Nacho!
wow, amazing footage. thank you!
some heavy shit goin' on there ... peace
Epiccccc
That crescendo about 3.30 in reminiscent of A Day In The Life.
Seaching for My brother yes I am Rock n Roll de Alto Octanaje
Esto es maravilla. Muchas gracias :)
Sehr coole Aufnahme.
Clyde Stubblefield & Jaki Liebezeit, human metronomes.
I love you Nacho 💕💛🌹🦋⚡️🤸🏻♂️
World music+ prog+noise: CAN.
It would be awesome to see what AI would do with this clip
the slight tempo fluctuations are strange
whenabouts?
Holy smokes.
2 minute mark, it's the bass doing the "answer" of the call and answer. That's usually the guitar or other tenor/melodic instrument, but he's chucking away with the drums doing the "call" and all the accents. That's cool as s..t.
My word, this is priceless. Thanks so much for uploading this! What a band. It'd be worth it to just turn up and see Liebezeit play, really. Total genius drummer.
I saw Liebezeit at the Barbican in the 90’s. Totally minimal kit, mostly he just used kick drum and snare. And yet it was totally mesmerising and infinitely complex.
Thank you for this, I've been wishing I could see this in better quality for years - not perfect, but something that was "a good thing to show people who don't already know Halleluwah" rather than "something that's not very good but quite interesting for people who already love Halleluwah", and that's what you've produced.
RIP Damo
Jaki Liebezeit, el Rey del groove.
Dont know what you said. But i read Jaki and Groove..and yep. Thats fits
Sick footage
did they ever play the entire song live? everything i can find is trimmed down from the studio
jaki is so awesome