TAGO MAGO

Ok, listen.This an intellectual project.Period.For his hystorical importance he gets 5/5 or maybe more.For his lisenabilty, beautiness and those other thing the rating depends on every single listener.You must be prepared for this.Fortunately i got into it and for me it's a 4/5.Together it's 4.5 but I just can't figure out more than 4-5 albums greater than this...so it has to be 5/5.FULL.What a wonderful year 1971 was for Krautrock!"Tanz der Lemminge","Faust", "Tago mago".Experimentation was running fast and furious.But in this case CAN manage to create an artistic kind of experimentation.I mean:not experimentation for its own sake.CAN manage to put you on this strange train named EXPERIMENTATION.You sit there all alone and while the train is running to his unknown destination you discover through the windows a whole new world of SOUND.The album kicks off with "Paperhouse".It starts with strange noises and a weird ballad.Eventually it will metamorphosize into a powerful goth-rock piece."Oh Yeah" is another great song:it looks like a strange religious pray with backwards vocals"."Mushroom" has some weird and hysterical vocals.Personally, my favourite track is "Halleluhwah".This one lasts 18 minutes and NO,IT'S NOT AN EPIC.The AREN'T dozen different parts to keep you awaken!!But that's my favourite track.Why?It's time to reveal Can's secret.THEY HAVE THE POWER TO HYPNOTIZE YOU.Each track that I've mentioned can make your brain stop for a while and stick to the music.This kind of magic is linked with the repetition of the same or similar sounds.The same happens in Indian music.In ragas there's the repetition of the same note.HERE THE SAME RHYTHM.That's the great revolution!!!Bassist Holgar Czukaj was a real genius!!He anticipated disco-music, new-wave etc etc...That's it.Masterpiece.