Name: Flow Motion
Brand: Can

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CDSPOON26

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Limited edition

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2012-07-16

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PIAS

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5099960277329

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Krautrock

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Spoon

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Known for their introspective lyrics and unique sound, Bright Eyes has influenced many artists in the indie rock genre. Some similar artists include The Good Life, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Cursive, Neva Dinova, Okkervil River, and more. Their music combines elements of folk, rock, country, and experimental sounds to create a distinct musical experience.

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Spoon is a music label established by Hildegard Schmidt in 1980. Hildegard was the manager of the influential Krautrock group Can and started Spoon to release their group, solo, and side-project material.

The early pressings of Spoon releases had a simplistic black on white label with no logo. The label name, Spoon-Records, was displayed boldly with the address 5000 Köln 30 underneath. Later pressings added an LC code (LC 7395) on the left of the label and revised the address slightly to D-5000 Köln 30. French (Celluloid) and Italian (Base Record) issues were released from 1981 onwards.

In the mid/late 1980s, Mute Records took up UK distribution for Spoon. In 1989, CD versions of Spoon releases were introduced with basic black print labels and no logos. These CDs were made in Switzerland and featured SPOON as part of the catalogue number. In 1991, when Mute took up international distribution, a logo for Spoon was introduced - block split inverse capitals in a box - appearing on vinyl labels (white or black inverse labels since 1999) and on CD labels.

1976's Flow Motion is probably Can's most immediately accessible album, born out by the fact that the opening track, 'I Want More', was the group's sole chart hit in the UK. The album title is uncannily descriptive; this music flows with the sinuous grace of a dancer. The Stockhausen-influenced repetition that marked their earlier records is still evident here, but Holger Czukay's bass has a new limberness and melodic bent, showing a fresh appreciation of the supple rhythms of reggae and other Carribean music. Czukay's bass combines with Michael Karoli's head spinning polyrhythms to create a powerful, intoxicating sound. The lengthy instrumental title track is one of the finest performances of Can's long career, with the sinister 'Smoke' (part of the group's long-running ethnological forgery series of faux world music) and the hypnotic 'And More' nearly its equal.

Flow Motion

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