Can - Rite Time

Title: Rite Time Artist: Can Release Date: 1989 Re-Released On: 11/7/2008 Label: WM Records, Mute Records, Mute/Spoon/Grey Area, Pony Canyon Records (Japan), Spoon Duration: 41:52 UPCs: 4995879222133, 724596906422, 724596932025, 094636076928, 094636076959, 4015887000292, 401588702926, 5051442356526, 5099950442720, 643443722766, 509995044272, 499587922213 Genre: Rock Styles: Experimental Electronic, Experimental, Kraut Rock, Experimental Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Art Rock Moods: Circular, Hypnotic, Sprawling, Detached, Freewheeling, Trippy, Cerebral, Eerie, Intense, Rollicking, Acerbic, Brash, Complex, Fiery, Playful, Reflective, Whimsical Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 3 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. On the Beautiful Side of a Romance
2. The Withoutlaw Man
3. Below This Level (Patient's Song)
4. Movin' Right Along
5. Like a New Child
6. Hoolah Hoolah
7. Give the Drummer Some
8. In the Distance Lies the Future

Year Type Label Catalog # 2008 CD Spoon 505144235652 2007 CD Mute Records 29 2006 CD Pony Canyon Records (Japan) 22213 2006 CD Mute/Spoon/Grey Area 29 2006 CD WM Records 2006 CD Mute Records 29 2006 CD Mute Records 1998 CD Mute Records 69064 1995 CD Mute Records 29 ------ CD Mute Records 87029

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An unexpected reunion from Can (made even more unexpected by the presence of original singer Malcolm Mooney, who left the band in 1969), 1989's Rite Time is in large part a return to form for the group, especially when one considers how weak Can's last few '70s albums were. Wisely, the quintet doesn't try to replicate the sound they created over two decades before on albums like Monster Movie. Instead, Mooney and company make Rite Time a document of where they're at musically at the time. In short, it's funkier ("Give the Drummer Some"), funnier ("Hoolah Hoolah," which takes that old schoolyard rhyme about how they don't wear pants on the other side of France as the jumping-off point for its melody and lyrics), and more abstractly ambient (the elliptical closer "In the Distance Lies the Future") than before. Rite Time doesn't have the rubbery, polyrhythmic intensity of classic Can albums like Ege Bamyasi or Future Days, but it's a solidly listenable album that, unlike the majority of reunion albums, doesn't soil the memory of the band. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide

Name Credits Alfred Steffen Photography Andreas Torkler Remastering Holger Czukay Synthesizer Bass, Producer, Synthesizer, French Horn, Dictaphone, Bass, Mixing Irmin Schmidt Keyboards Jaki Liebezeit Drums, Percussion Malcolm Mooney Vocals Michael Karoli Bass, Organ, Producer, Choir, Chorus, Guitar, Mixing, Pocket Organ, Vocals Patrick Jaunead Engineer Rene Tinner Mixing Werner O. Richter Art Direction