June 27What a surprise.When Can came to New York for a promotion tour on June 18, we weren't sure how the new album 'Sacrelege' would do. The US college radio stations were especially keen on taking this album on air and so it got placed at No. 2 when we arrived. These kinds of radio stations are something I'm missing here in Germany. They are free to play what they want and they are influential. Mute Records' Mark Fotiadis turned out to become a real Can fan or better: he had been all the time I guess. This was the first time in the group's existence that a record company boss stayed with us together more than 14 hours in one go and not only for business reasons. Just thinking: where are the other companies like Mute whose bosses are themselves actively into music? Daniel Miller from Mute's London headquaters made one of the best remixes on the CD and Mark was a dj for a long time in N.Y.C. so both should know.
And we met Francois Kervorkian with Rob Reeves, who made this fantastic 'Blue Bag' mix we all love. Also for the first time, I had a chat with Moby who is currently working on the new James Bond trailer. Last but not least there was a long telephone call with Jon Hassell whom I know from the old days in 1964 when we were studying with Karlheinz Stockhausen and whom I met nearly 20 years later in Berlin during the recording of David Sylvian's Brilliant Trees album. He seems to be fine, having moved from N.Y. to L.A.Then I attended to a sort of electronic arts event in one of the pilers of Brooklyn Bridge (the Anchorage)- great venue and cool in summer time. That could be a place to play live next time.
Now let's wait and see what Michael Karoli is doing on the new Can Live album which will be expected 1998 when the group gets 30 years old. On this anniversary, there will be a three day live festival in Berlin probably in October where the members will perform solo or with other artists belonging to the extended Can family.
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