Editorial
On the cover: David Gilmour ©Anton Corbijn
Beth Gibbons by David Corio/ Redferns
HERE’S Irmin Schmidt, explaining the mercurial brilliance of Can in full flight. “Even if we improvised onstage, we always went in the same direction,” he tells us on page 19. “In away that it became amusic that was not just bullshit. It was not some kind of jamming and everything falls apart. It was always something very connected.” You can witness the fruits of the group’s potent psychic bond on this month’s Uncut CD –asampler showcasing Can’s indispensable live series, as they improvise freely and at length in cities as far-flung as Stuttgart and Birmingham. On these five tracks –don’t feel short-changed, the briefest is over eight minutes long – you’ll find rock’s most forward-thinking band at their most uninhibited. Dive in!