Rite Time

Rite Time is Can's eleventh and final studio album, considered a reunion album because of the time elapsed since the band's previous album, Can, which had been released in 1979. The album consists of sessions recorded in the South of France in late 1986, edited extensively by the band over the course of subsequent years. Rite Time features the vocals of the band's original singer, Malcolm Mooney, who had left the group in 1970 after their debut album Monster Movie. Upon the album's initial release, "In the Distance Lies the Future" only appeared on the CD version, but it was subsequently featured on the 2014 vinyl reissue.

Rite Time
Studio album by Can
Released	October 1989
Recorded	December 1986
Genre	Krautrock
Length	41:52
Label	Mute
Producer	Michael Karoli, Holger Czukay
Can chronology
Delay 1968 (1981) Rite Time (1989)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[3]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Czukay, Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Mooney.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"On the Beautiful Side of a Romance"	7:27
2.	"The Withoutlaw Man"	4:18
3.	"Below This Level (Patient's Song)"	3:44
4.	"Movin' Right Along"	3:28
5.	"Like a New Child"	7:36
6.	"Hoolah Hoolah"	4:31
7.	"Give the Drummer Some"	6:47
8.	"In the Distance Lies the Future"	4:00
Total length:		41:52

Personnel

• Malcolm Mooney – lead vocals
• Michael Karoli – guitar, chorus vocals, pocket organ, bass
• Irmin Schmidt – keyboards, kalimba
• Holger Czukay – bass, French horn, synthesizer, dictaphone
• Jaki Liebezeit – drums, percussion

References

1. Mason, Stewart. "Can: Rite Time > Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
2. Larkin, Colin (2011). "Can". Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0857125958.
3. Nathan Brackett; Christian David Hoard (2004). The new Rolling Stone album guide. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-7432-0169-8.