Out of Reach | ||||
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Released | July 1978 | |||
Recorded | October 1977 | |||
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Length | 35:19 | |||
Label | Harvest | |||
Producer | Can | |||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
Pitchfork | 3.7/10[3] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [4] |
Out of Reach is the ninth studio album by the Germankrautrock band Can, released as an LP in 1978 on Harvest Records.[1] It is their tenth official studio album, discounting compilations such as Unlimited Edition.
The band's previous album Saw Delight was the first to include former Traffic members Rosko Gee and Rebop Kwaku Baah. Founding bassist and producerHolger Czukay was reduced to the position of making electronic sounds[5] as Gee took over the bass duties. Czukay left the band during the recording sessions for what was to become Out of Reach.[1]
As a partial result of Czukay's departure, the new members are said to dominate the group's sound on this album (or 'to impose too strict a sense of rhythm on Can's once free-flowing music', according to an interview[6]). Critically acclaimed drummer Jaki Liebezeit's beats are greatly reduced in their power in relation to Baah's percussion.[1] However, the album's strong guitar solos from Michael Karoli are a link to the older Can sound, and have drawn comparisons to those of Carlos Santana.[7] Gee has also been praised as creating a jazz sound,[1] but equally Out of Reach has been criticized for delving into a disco style.[7]
Rosko Gee takes lead vocals on 'Pauper's Daughter and I' (quoting the 'Jack and Jill' nursery rhyme) and 'Give Me No 'Roses', and is credited with writing these two tracks,[1] although according to a 1997 interview with the band in Mojo magazine, this lack of collaboration with the rest of the group was a sign that the band was about to collapse.[6] Rebop sings on the track 'Like INOBE GOD', which has been called Can's worst-ever recorded piece.[1]
The four other songs ('Serpentine', 'November', 'Seven Days Awake' and 'One More Day') are instrumental.[citation needed]
Out of Reach has variously been reissued as a double CD with Can's 1979 self-titled release Can (also known as Inner Space after the band's recording studio)[8] and on its own in several single CD versions, e.g. on MagMid (TKO Magnum Music) in the United Kingdom,[9] but was long more difficult to find than other Can albums.[1] Being the only Can album that features no input from Holger Czukay (its followup Can had some editing by Czukay[10]), it was disowned by the band for many years - hence its rather haphazard reissue history - and was not listed as part of their discography on their official website.[11] It was not issued either as part of Spoon Records' first CD reissues of most of their albums in 1989, nor in a remastered Super Audio CD edition in 2006 unlike all the other Can studio albums.[12]It was finally officially re-issued by Spoon Records, in CD, vinyl and digital formats, on 18 August 2014.[13]
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
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1. | 'Serpentine[1]' | none | Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Gee, Baah | 4:03 |
2. | 'Pauper's Daughter and I' | Gee | Gee | 5:57 |
3. | 'November' | none | Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Gee, Baah | 7:37 |
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
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4. | 'Seven Days Awake' | none | Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Gee, Baah | 5:12 |
5. | 'Give Me No 'Roses' | Gee | Gee | 5:21 |
6. | 'Like Inobe God[a]' | wordmelody by Baah | Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Gee, Baah | 5:51 |
7. | 'One More Day' | none | Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Gee, Baah | 1:37 |
Total length: | 35:19 |
According to the liner notes:
“Itch On” is a kind of a travel blog and kind of place to share some thoughts. It chronicles the adventures of Caleb Belohlavek and Sandy Alves, in what is planned to be a one-year trip counter-clockwise around the country. Over the next year we plan on going from California to Florida, up the East Coast, across the top (with some stops in Canada), and then back down the left coast back to our home in Grass Valley, California. It’s a place where we can tell people what we are doing, and stay in touch with our family and friends.
Why “Itch On”?
Well, for most of our 30+ years together we have shaken up our lives with a major change about every seven years. It’s just how we are wired (mostly Sandy), and we recognize when it is going to happen. So, in 2003, when we bought a little ranch in Grass Valley, we decided to call it The Seven Year Itch (or the 7YI Ranch for short). Our original plan was to stay there for about… you guessed it – seven years. Well, in the end, we stayed there for twelve and counting. But that itch was still there and it sorely needed scratching.
So, in the Summer of ’15, we bought an Airstream trailer, and decided to head off for awhile. We stocked up the trailer with food and cocktails, solar panels, and some special wi-fi equipment so Sandy could work on the road. Caleb decided to take a year off from work to get some rest and do some writing. We had a few plans, but mostly just a general direction toward which we wished to point our truck and coach.
But the trailer needed a name, and thanks to our friend Barbara, we ended up with “Itch On!”
Thus the name for the blog.
Thus the name for the trailer.
And thus our philosophy: “Keep scratchin’ that itch – wherever it may take you!”