Irmin Schmidt – Le Weekend
Bowing us out this week is former Can keyboardist and all-round cool dude, Irmin Schmidt with his 1991 track “Le Weekend”. Taken from the album Impossible Holidays, the song is a four and bit minutes of tango-inspired silliness, which let’s face it, all of us need after a loooong week [...]
Can – Halleluwah (edit)
I’m going away for a few days dear readers. Don’t fear though, Days Are Numbers will be brimming with exciting posts and exhilarating features! Huzzah! So how about Germany’s finest providing you with some heavy and hallucinatory krautrock rhythms to keep you company while I’m gone? Oh, go on then! [...]
Single of the Day – Holger Czukay – Ode To Perfume
Today’s “getting quite fed up of this bloody weather” SOTD, is from everybody’s favourite member of Can, Holger Czukay. Originally released in 1981, a rare live and extended version of Ode to Perfume was recently released by the Claremont 56 crew. This is however, is the edited version that can [...]
Single of the Day – Can – Aspectacle (Holger Czukay edit)
Electronic pioneers Can have always been a bit funky. From the disco silliness of I Want More to the hypnotic Vitamin C, the group’s influence stretched further than the usual rock parameters. The band’s experimental sound broke the mould of traditional rock ‘n’ roll. Their use of early synthesizers, avant-garde [...]