Kan Kan - Always Changing Trains (Works 1980 - 1983) / Compilation (2014)

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1.	Kan Kan - Blue Tango 04:19	buy track
2.	Kan Kan - Changing Trains 04:31	buy track
3.	Kan Kan - Laugh Clown Laugh 04:03	buy track
4.	Kan Kan - Statues 04:35	buy track
5.	Kan Kan - Phone Call 03:31	buy track
6.	Kan Kan - Silent Partner 03:04	buy track
7.	Kan Kan - Angel 01:53	buy track
8.	Kan Kan - Marching Marching 05:20	buy track
9.	Kan Kan - Memories And Dreams 04:39	buy track
10.	Kan Kan - The Informer 04:34	buy track
11.	Kan Kan - Film Noir 04:38	buy track
12.	Kan Kan - The Watchmaker 03:21	buy track
13.	Kan Kan - Apartment 100 04:35	buy track
14.	Kan Kan - Obsession 04:05	buy track
15.	Kan Kan - Champagne Smiles 03:25	buy track
16.	Kan Kan - Love Is A Shot In The Dark 03:08	buy track
17.	Kan Kan - War Crys 02:21	buy track
18.	Kan Kan - He Walked By Night 04:19	buy track
19.	Kan Kan - Dissolve And Fade 03:30	buy track
20.	Kan Kan - Deja Vu 03:13	buy track
21.	Kan Kan - Boys And Girls Come Out And Play 04:19	buy track
22.	Kan Kan - Beat On The Drum 03:24	buy track
23.	Kan Kan - Worktime 03:41	buy track
24.	Kan Kan - The Ballad Of Joe Public 03:27	buy track
25.	Kan Kan - Cut Yourself Shaving 03:01	buy track
26.	Kan Kan - The Words Of Love 04:23	buy track

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With its 15th release, Geheimnis Rec. changes its course and moves towards the misty alleys of London’s Post Punk/New Wave/ New Romantic era. Born on a grey autumn afternoon in 1979, “Kan Kan” was a pure British new wave band, which released only two EPs (“Changing Trains” in 1981 and “The Informer” in 1982), one 7’’ (“Film Noir” in 1980 and also contributed the song, “Phone Call” to the legendary compilation “East Of Croydon” (1981).
Their frontman, the quite theatrical, Patrick Dinnen along with Graham McGill, Michael Harding, Tom Casey and Flavia Malim (with the occasional addition of other session musicians) represented the change of spirit that blew over punk rock at the end of the 70’s, which was transformed little by little into something more melodic, romantic and artistic...
This was the time of New Romantics, post punk, secret gigs in London, dark glamour – all in the shadow of the right-wing reign of Margaret Thatcher. There were “secret events” in clubs in London, where people took over a venue and transformed it for one night. One such venue was The Scala Cinema in London – it was a stylish Art Deco cinema where all-night events were staged. That was Kan Kan's first ever gig. Later on after many live concerts, they were asked to play support for such bands as Killing Joke, A Flock of Seagulls, Mary Wilson, The Thompson Twins and the Boomtown Rats. The “big bang” of the post punk/new wave era !
From the beginning, Kan Kan was always theatrical – the songs and images were intense, heightened, like “films for the mind”, stories for the audience’s imagination - songs about outsiders, and people broken and restored by love, meetings in stations, border crossings - footsteps, statues, clowns, a world of suspicion where nothing is certain apart from uncertainty...
John Peel played the EP “Changing Trains” consistently and featured them on a session at the BBC ... But suddenly during 1983, the band split up, leaving us “as their legacy” two EPs and one 7’’. They never succeed in releasing a full length LP.
In May 16th, 2014, after 2 years of collecting lost material, Geheimnis Records presents a complete anthology of all tracks – both released and unreleased – on a double gatefold highly collectable compilation album, in 332 hand-numbered copies, half of them on white and half on black vinyl, remastered and restored by Chris Manolitsis on February and March 2014.

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Geheimnis Music Productions Αθήνα, Greece

Geheimnis Music Productions was founded in August 2010. It's an indie record label, based in Athens, focusing on re-releases of lost and real hard to find material of the New/Dark Wave Greek and International scene of the 80's-90's.
In December 2011, the label officially entered the era of involving with new artists of the contemporary new wave/alternative sound, linking the past with the future. ... more

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