At the end of “Vier”, one of the members announces something to the audience in German, concluding with the words “zwanzig Minuten” (translation: “20 minutes”), so perhaps there was a break in the action that night. If there was more to the concert than this, Mute does not say. With Schmidt on keyboards, Michael Karoli on guitar, Holger Czukay on bass, and Jacki Liebezeit on drums, the vocal-less Can don’t jam for longer than eight minutes and 25 seconds at a time. Like the other live releases, the jams are numerically titled in German, but Live in Cuxhaven 1976 has only four. Live in Cuxhaven 1976, on the other hand, falls a few seconds short of 30 minutes.
The Stuttgart and Brighton releases were a good 90 minutes apiece. It may be protracted, but it lands where it counts. As a quartet, Can were on a roll, as Live in Cuxhavendemonstrates. They didn’t even have to worry about vocals. Here was a rock band, already futuristically minded when it came to what they put down on tape, taking their prescience on the road so that all could hear their unencumbered jams. The double albums Live in Stuttgart 1975 and Live in Brighton 1975 made the New Yorker, the New York Times, and Pitchfork crow in equal measure. In 2021, Mute and Spoon Records began jointly releasing live albums recorded by Andrew Hall and mixed/mastered by René Tinner and Irmin Schmidt. Even now, the material just won’t stop coming. It easily outnumbers the studio albums released when Can were active. Ever since the Krautrock juggernaut first parted ways in the late 1970s, their discography has become overwhelmed with additional releases featuring remixes, live performances, soundtrack work, and enough studio outtakes to justify at least one double album and one box set. Any genuinely devoted fan of Can (is there any other kind?) will tell you that their mainline studio albums are but a drop in the bucket regarding the band’s history.
MYSTERY OF TIME AND SPACE REVIEW PROFESSIONAL
The album booklet describes the story "So take the time to follow me into a small old English town during the Victorian era and join a young agnostic scientist by the name Aaron Blackwell as he is forced to explore the coherencies of time, God and science torn between belief in his professional conviction, his spiritual intuition, love and a lodge of scientific occultists." Personnel "Death Is Just a Feeling (Alternative Version/Tobias Sammet)" Limited & Japanese edition bonus tracks No.
Also, this gives the album a face of its own. It's more like a film score, to underline the whole story, the rock opera aspect, which was a choice on this one and I think it works out fine. It is a more 'fantastic' production, based a little bit more on orchestra work and keyboards. When asked to compare the album to Avantasia's previous efforts, guitarist and producer Sascha Paeth described it as follows: The Mystery Of Time scored high positions in several international music charts and even enabled Avantasia to enter the US Billboard charts for the first time. The cover artwork was painted by Rodney Matthews. This is the first Avantasia release to feature the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg (the same orchestra that performed on Edguy's album Hellfire Club). The Mystery of Time is the sixth full-length album by German Tobias Sammet's rock opera project Avantasia. ‹ The template Album ratings is being considered for merging. › Professional ratings Review scores
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