Name: Cafe Exil - New Adventures in European Music 1972 - 1980
Brand: Various

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

XXQLP2074

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black

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Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

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Format detail

Double 180 Gram Vinyl. With Bonus Track by Edgar Froese.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-12-15

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

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UPC / Barcode

029667012218

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

CDCHD1582

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029667100922

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Various

Genre GB

Krautrock

Label GB

Ace Records

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 like 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.

Cafe Exil - New Adventures in European Music 1972 - 1980

Music GB