Can Live Music is a double

Double album

A double album is an audio album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically records and compact discs....

 live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by the band Can

Can (band)

Can was an experimental rock band formed in Cologne, West Germany in 1968. Later labeled as one of the first "krautrock" groups, they transcended mainstream influences and incorporated strong minimalist and world music elements into their often psychedelic music.Can constructed their music largely...

, released in 1999 and recorded in the UK and West Germany

West Germany

West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

 between 1972 and 1977 (despite the title referencing 1971). It originally came as an item in the now out of print Can box set.

The album contains several tracks created through instantaneous free improvisation

Free improvisation

Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the logic or inclination of the musician involved. The term can refer to both a technique and as a recognizable genre in its own right....

 ("Jynx", "Fizz", "Colchester Finale" and "Kata Kong") that did thus not appear on any of Can's studio albums

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

.

Disc one

1. "Jynx" (Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt) – 16:06
   14th Oct 1975, Giessen, Universität
2. "Dizzy Dizzy" (Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt) – 8:02
   19th Nov 1975, Brighton, Sussex University
3. "Vernal Equinox" (Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt) – 12:44
   19th Nov 1975, Brighton, Sussex University
4. "Fizz" (Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Rosko Gee) – 6:27
   2nd Mar 1977, Keele, University of Keele
5. "Yoo Doo Right
   Yoo Doo Right
   "Yoo Doo Right" is a song on Can's 1969 debut album, Monster Movie, which had been edited down from a six-hour improvisation to a mere twenty minutes...
   
   " (Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Mooney) – 14:26
   4th May 1975, Croydon, Greyhound
6. "Cascade Waltz" (Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt) – 4:48
   23rd Mar 1977, London, Sound Circus

Disc two

1. "Colchester Finale" including "Halleluhwah
   Halleluhwah
   "Halleluhwah" is a song by the krautrock band Can, on their 1971 album Tago Mago. The track, which originally took up a whole side of long-playing vinyl, lasts for 18 minutes and 28 seconds and is characteristic of the band's sound around 1971 in that it features a vast array of improvised guitars...
   
   " (Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Suzuki) – 37:24
   8th May 1972, Colchester, University of Essex
2. "Kata Kong" (Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt) – 8:28
   21st Nov 1975, Hatfield, Hatfield Polytechnic
3. "Spoon
   Spoon (song)
   "Spoon" is the name of a song by the krautrock group Can, recorded in 1972. It was originally released as a single with the song "Shikaku Maru Ten" on the b-side. "Spoon" also appeared as the final track to the band's album Ege Bamyasi later that year....
   
   " (Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Suzuki) – 14:23
   3rd Feb 1972, Cologne, Sporthalle

Personnel

• Holger Czukay
  Holger Czukay
  Holger Czukay is a German musician, probably best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can. Described by critic Jason Ankeny as "successfully bridg[ing] the gap between pop and the avant-garde," Czukay is also notable for creating early important examples of ambient music, for exploring...
  
   – bass (1972–1975); short wave radio, sampler & electronic treatments (1977)
• Michael Karoli
  Michael Karoli
  Michael Karoli was a German guitarist, violinist and composer. He was a founding member of the influential krautrock band Can....
  
   – guitar, vocals
• Jaki Liebezeit
  Jaki Liebezeit
  Jaki Liebezeit is a drummer probably best known as a founding member of Can who has been called "one of the few drummers to convincingly meld the funky and the cerebral"....
  
   – drums, percussion
• Irmin Schmidt
  Irmin Schmidt
  Irmin Schmidt is a German keyboard player and composer, probably best known as a founding member of the band Can.-Biography:...
  
   – keyboards
• Damo Suzuki
  Damo Suzuki
  , universally known as Damo Suzuki , is a singer best known for his membership in the German krautrock group Can.-Biography:As a teenager, Suzuki spent the late 1960s wandering around Europe, often busking....
  
   – vocals (1972 only)
• Rosko Gee
  Rosko Gee
  Rosko Gee is a Jamaican bassist who has played with the English band Traffic on their albums When the Eagle Flies and The Last Great Traffic Jam , with the supergroup Go conceived by Stomu Yamashta, which also included Steve Winwood, Al Di Meola, Klaus Schulze and Michael Shrieve, and with the...
  
  – bass (1977 only)