Next Wednesday, July 23, Eric Slick’s Unlimited Edition concert will occur at New York’s Brooklyn Bowl. The night will lean into Krautrock and Kosmische Musik by CAN, Kraftwerk, Faust, and other Germanic stalwarts, performed by the bandleader and his choice contributors. In advance of the official date, new names have been added to the list of artists participating in the event. 

Making up the Unlimited Devotion band are percussionist/drummers Slick and Spencer Tweedy (Waxahatchee, Tweedy), Brian Betancourt (Benjamin Booker, Kevin Morby) on bass, and Frank Locrasto (Fruit Bats) handling synth and keys, special guests like Kevin Morby, Cass McCombs, Nels Cline, Jessica Dobson, Jen Wasner and the latest adds to the list, Sinkane, Skyler Skjelset (Fleet Floxes) and Andy Molholt (Speedy Ortiz). 

Ahead of the concert, Slick spoke with Relix Editor in Chief Mike Greenhaus, striking a comparison between jam stalwarts the Grateful Dead and CAN’s Krautrock canon, as well as their mutual backbone. “I think that a lot of the influences are actually the same. When you read about like how Phil Lesh was really into Stockhausen, so were CAN. There was a common thread between people at that time, who were getting into things like tape manipulation.”

“The American version of that was the Dead and the German version was Krautrock. It’s still hippie music, but it’s presented in a slightly different way. But they’re both expansive and both require improvisation and both require virtuosic playing,” he says. 

Eric Slick’s Unlimited Edition will occur after Phish’s July 23 Forest Hills show, providing fans two tiers of entertainment.

Tickets for Slick’s Unlimited Edition are on sale and can be purchased here. 

Read Slick’s new interview on Jambands.com.