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Later this month, Can’s Irmin Schmidt will release a new album of piano pieces titled 5 Klavierstücke, and ahead of that, he’s now unveiled a second track from the record, ‘Klavierstück V’. You can ...

Formed in Cologne in 1968, Can embodied a kind of ritualistic minimalism, somehow managing to be both forward looking and primordial at the same time. Constructing their music out of lengthy ...

German musician Irmin Schmidt appears at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Duncan Seaman reports. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you can get access to all of our ...

Rob Young’s scholarly history of the hugely influential 70s band, written with the one surviving member of the group, neglects their human qualities It all begins, and ends, with Irmin Schmidt. A ...

Can’s Irmin Schmidt has a new solo album on the way, titled Requiem. Split into two parts that clock in together at 41 minutes, the LP sees 89-year-old Schmidt play prepared and unprepared piano ...

On his latest solo work, keyboardist Irmin Schmidt (a founding member of experimental legends Can) takes a compositionally unfettered approach to his instruments of choice. The 5 Klavierstücke, or “5 ...

Halleluhwah! The latest issue of Uncut – in shops now or available to buy online by clicking here, with free P&P for the UK – features a six-page Can celebration as a new series of live albums ...

Irmin Schmidt, founder of pioneering Krautrock band Can, discusses The Can Project with Max Reinhardt, a performance at the Barbican featuring reworkings of classic Can material for the London ...

Irmin Schmidt will release a new album this November. Above, you can hear ‘Klavierstück III’ which features on the album. Entitled 5 Klavierstücke, the album consists of five piano pieces recorded ...

During the late 60s and 1970s, Germany hosted a very loosely affiliated wave of experimental yet accessible acts, the finest of whom - Neu!, Cluster/Harmonia, Faust - succeeded in conjuring nominally ...

Can, the German rock band active between 1968 and 1979, have in many ways, through no fault of their own, become the ultimate chin-stroking outfit. Born from Europe’s ruins, boasting two former ...