Soundtracks (Can album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Soundtracks
Type = Soundtrack
Artist = Can


Released = 1970
Recorded = 1970 at Schloss Nörvenich, Germany
Genre = Krautrock
Experimental Rock
Progressive Rock
Length = 35:09
Label = Mute
Producer = Can
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:4q1tk6ax9krd link]
* Pitchfork Media (7.6/10.0) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/15995-monster-movie-soundtracks-tago-mago-ege-bamyasi 11 November 2004]
* Stylus Magazine (B) [http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/can/monster-movie-soundtracks.htm 7 January 2005]
Last album = Monster Movie
(1969)
This album = Soundtracks
(1970)
Next album = Tago Mago
(1971)

"Soundtracks" is a soundtrack album by the Krautrock group Can. It was first released in 1970 and consists of tracks written for various films. The album marks the departure of the band's original vocalist Malcolm Mooney, who sings on two tracks, to be replaced by new member Damo Suzuki. Stylistically, the record also documents the transition from the psychedelia-inspired jams of their first recordings (i.e., "Monster Movie" and "Delay 1968") to the more meditative, electronic, and experimental mode of the studio albums that followed (such as "Tago Mago" and "Ege Bamyasi").

The track "She Brings The Rain" was later featured in Lisbon Story and in the 2000 Oskar Roehler film "Die Unberührbare."

"Don't Turn the Light On, Leave Me Alone" features Damo Suzuki's first recorded performance with Can. [Holger Czukay: "'Don't Turn the Light on, Leave Me Alone' was Damo's first recording with CAN ever." [http://www.furious.com/PERFECT/hysterie2.html] ]

In March 2005, "Q" magazine placed "Mother Sky" at number 48 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.

Track listing

# "Deadlock" – 3:27 (from the film "Deadlock," 1970, dir. Roland Klick)
# "Tango Whiskyman" – 4:04 (from the film "Deadlock," 1970, dir. Roland Klick)
# "Deadlock (Titelmusik)" – 1:40 (from the film "Deadlock," 1970, dir. Roland Klick)
# "Don't Turn the Light On, Leave Me Alone" – 3:42 (from the film "Cream")
# "Soul Desert" – 3:48 (from the film "Mädchen... nur mit Gewalt," 1970, dir. Roger Fritz. Cited on album sleeve as "Mädchen mit Gewalt")
# "Mother Sky" – 14:31 (from the film "Deep End," 1971, dir. Jerzy Skolimowski)
# "She Brings the Rain" – 4:04 (from the film "Bottom - Ein großer graublauer Vogel" 1971, dir. Thomas Schamoni)

Personnel

*Holger Czukay: bass, double bass
*Michael Karoli: guitar, violin
*Jaki Liebezeit: drums, percussion, flute
*Malcolm Mooney: vocals on "Soul Desert" and "She Brings the Rain"
*Irmin Schmidt: keyboards, synthesizers
*Damo Suzuki: vocals on "Deadlock," "Tango Whiskyman," "Don't Turn the Light On, Leave Me Alone," and "Mother Sky"; percussion