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Back in 1969, the German art-rock quartet Can recorded the score for the forgotten movie Ein großer graublauer Vogel. More than 40 years later, the band has edited it into a scalding 17-minute garage-rock suite, with the late Michael Karoli’s psychedelic guitar and Irmin Schmidt’s organ riffing battling for space against waves of shortwave-radio noise. It’s an incandescent, relentless piece and a useful reminder that extraordinary music from decades ago may be sitting unheard in an archive somewhere.