»Musikgeschichten: Can Kiosk«

You could write a whole book about the story of Can, and fortunately someone has done just that, yet again. At the beginning of this year, the music journalist Rob Young published the second-ever monograph about the band’s achievements, entitled »All Gates Open: The Story of Can«, with Faber & Faber. The writer for The Wire even managed to snag band member Irmin Schmidt himself to contribute the text collage »Can Kiosk«. In this evening’s conversation with moderator Anne Waak and Max Dax, who together with Robert Defcon added an oral history to the book, Schmidt will explain everything that's written between the lines of the 600 pages. And Can, which was started in 1968, is considered the most influential band of the Krautrock generation thanks to albums such as »Tago Mago« and »Future Days«, so expect a long story.

»Irmin Schmidt: Musikgeschichten«

Irmin Schmidt played with the best band in the world and hasn’t stopped creating music history ever since. On three evenings at Pop-Kultur, he will share memories from a long life and show films that he himself or his band Can set to music. Alongside screenings of »Mord in Eberswalde« [»Murder in Eberswalde«] and »Deadlock«, Schmidt will speak with moderator Hanna Bächer and with Stephan Wagner, the director of the »Mord in Eberswalde«, about the movie’s soundtrack. Ulrich Gutmair will present the composer with recordings of unfamiliar music, and Schmidt will exchange with the writer Max Dax in a talk moderated by Anne Waak about the recently-published band biography »All Gates Open: The Story of Can« by the British music journalist Rob Young, to which Schmidt contributed the text collage »Can Kiosk« and Dax contributed an oral history together with Robert Defcon. Although Schmidt has written so many music stories already, there’s always another couple to tell—about Can, or Stockhausen, or about murder cases in Brandenburg.