His guitar shudders delicately only to rocket into piercing caterwauls. Transcendence is the song's inspiration and it sears with emotional tumult as listeners hear an addled, psychedelic journey from rock bottom to ecstasy and back again as Hazel races across the guitar neck.

To be sure, 'Maggot Brain' has its virtues. It's ironic that Parliament-Funkadelic, a multi-headed collective devoted to expounding funk's virtues, would find its greatest musical moment in a 10-minute, instrumental rock opus that served as a showpiece for guitarist Eddie Hazel's six-stringed genius. Even though Can was never able to break through to the mainstream at the time, their influence on modern music persists. Originally compared to Pink Floyd and Velvet Underground, their avant-garde approach went beyond the musical barriers of their peers. Classically trained bassist Holger Czukay and keyboardist Irmin Schmidt didn't let their upbringing limit the spontaneity they bring to the recording instead, they injected the track with affection and a kind of anarchy against modern music. Most seductively, Damo Suzuki's quieted vocals weave through the song as he sings from a whisper to a scream. The rhythmic repetition from drummer Jaki Liebezeit provides enough space for the other bandmates to add layers of sound. 'Mushroom,' the album's most ubiquitous track, is captivating. Recorded while living in a castle near Cologne, Germany krautrock pioneers Can spent hundreds of hours fusing together improvisations of rock and jazz to create their experimental sophomore album, Tago Mago.

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