Can • Dizzy Dizzy • 1974

Restoration of the 1974 promo video for this classic Can track. • Dizzy Dizzy is the opening track from Soon Over Babaluma, the 6th album by German band Can. The album continued the ambient yet rhythmic style of its predecessor, Future Days. Vocalist, Damo Suzuki, had departed in ’73, so now vocal duties were shared between guitarist Michael Karoli & keyboardist Irmin Schmidt. On Dizzy Dizzy it’s Karoli on vocals. As Dominique Leone nicely puts it, in his 2005 review of the remastered edition of Soon Over Babaluma, “His (Karoli’s) refrain of “got to get it up, got to get it over“ serves the insistent, space-bounce of the track”. Can was a German experimental rock band formed in Cologne, Germany, in 1968 by Holger Czukay (bass), Irmin Schmidt (keyboards), Michael Karoli (guitar), and Jaki Liebezeit (drums). The band drew from backgrounds in avant-garde and jazz. Can incorporated minimalist, electronic, and world music elements into their often psychedelic and funk-inflected m