Can- Live In Arles 1975

Label: Mute

Reissued 9/25/2026

Can Live in Arles 1975 features the core line up of Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit, Michael Karoli, and Holger Czukay.  The concert, with Nico & Kevin Ayres as well as Ash Ra Tempel supporting, is remembered by two fans – including the author / journalist Pascal Bussy – for the sleeve notes, which also feature a translation of a French magazine article from the time. The new album is the latest in a series of live recordings that have been unearthed from the Spoon Records vaults and from fan recordings, then painstakingly assembled by founding member Irmin Schmidt and producer / engineer René Tinner. Founded in the late ‘60s and disbanded just over a decade later, Can’s unprecedented and bold marriage of hypnotic grooves and avant-garde instrumental textures has made them one of the most important and innovative bands of all time. This collection of albums recorded throughout Europe from 73-77, reveal a totally different perspective to the group. Through the series, you may hear familiar themes, riffs and motifs popping up and rippling through the jams, but they are often only fleeting glimpses of familiar faces in a swirling crowd. At other points, you will hear music that didn’t make it onto the official album canon. In these recordings Can go to even more extreme ranges than with their studio work: from mellow, ambient drift-rock to the white-dwarf sonic-meltdown moments they used to nickname ‘Godzillas’. And even as they adapt and chase the rhythm from minute to minute, you can hear the extraordinary musical telepathy its members shared. 

Track listing:

1. Arles 75 Eins
2. Arles 75 Zwei
   
3. Arles 75 Drei 
4. Arles 75 Vier
5. Arles 75 Fünf
   
6. Arles 75 Sechs