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Artist: Various Artists
Title: Cafe Exile - New Adventures In European Music 1972-1980
Format: CD
Label: ACE - UK
Catalog Number:1582
Barcode:029667100922 itemnumber=1000124887
Price: $16.98  (All prices include domestic shipping.)
Genre: ELECTRONICA
Release Date: 12/11/2020
Availability: Not Currently In Stock
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When David Bowie and Iggy Pop relocated from LA to continental Europe, taking trains to Berlin, Paris and Warsaw, they would have come across new music that was very different to the burgeoning disco scene they left behind. "Cafe Exil" - named after one of Bowie's favourite Berlin haunts - imagines the soundtrack that would have informed "Low", "Heroes" and "Lodger". It's an awesome mix of electronica, Krautrock and experimental treats. There are key tracks from members of Can and Tangerine Dream, fascinating obscurities by German act Streetmark and Italian library maestro Piero Umiliani, the Herzog-soundtracking Popul Vuh, and highly collectible avant-strangeness by Annette Peacock. Czech-born Jan Hammer's beautiful, light, atmospheric groove is among myriad surprises. "Cafe Exil" has been put together by Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley and Jason Wood, author of multiple books on cinema and programmer at Home in Manchester. It fits in with other recent Ace compilations such as "English Weather" and "76 In The Shade" - it creates a mood, a time and a place. You're right there, sat next to Bowie, drinking his Pernod and black, in a darkly lit Berlin bar.

Track Listing
 1. 
WAY STAR - Rubba

 2. 
PONY - Annette Peacock

 3. 
TOMMY - Focus

 4. 
A MORNING EXCUSE - Amon Düül II

 5. 
OCTAVE DOCTORS - Steve Hillage

 6. 
JENNIFER - Faust

 7. 
FEUERLAND - Michael Rother

 8. 
EILEEN - Streetmark

 9. 
L'EROE DI PLASTICA - Toni Esposito

10. 
NO ONE RECEIVING - Brian Eno

11. 
HÜTER DER SCHWELLE - Popol Vuh

12. 
PENNY HITCH - Soft Machine

13. 
DON'T YOU KNOW - Jan Hammer Group

14. 
CANOE - Piero Umiliani

15. 
TROUPEAU BLEU - Cortex

16. 
SOWIESOSO - Cluster



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