Damo Suzuki: “Ra”

Damo Suzuki is still making music? Thank god!

The krautrock icon and CAN alumnus teamed up with an eight-piece band of CAN acolytes in Berlin to make some magic.

The resulting album “Arkaoda” smells a bit of brimstone spilled onto the shag carpet at a Holiday Inn, full of all the wide open experimentation that characterized the revolutionary band of yore.

There’s a lounge-ier quality to the improvisations in the new millennium. Less of the hard-driving percussion and Suzuki-branded yelps from the old days. In their place, a more meditative and introspective sound has taken hold.

With age, comes serenity?

Stream, share, buy to your heart’s content.

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