Tago Mago is the second studio album by the German krautrock band Can, originally released as a double LP in August 1971 on United Artists Records.

Tago Mago features long-form experimental tracks blending rock and jazz improvisation, funk rhythms, and musique concrète tape editing techniques.

[14] During the Tago Mago recording sessions, Can were visited by an English journalist, Duncan Fallowell, writing for The Spectator magazine.

[17] According to Czukay, the album was named after Illa de Tagomago, an islet near Ibiza in the Balearic archipelago, at Liebezeit's suggestion.

[22] Roni Sarig, author of The Secret History of Rock, called the second LP "as close as [the group] ever got to avant-garde noise music".

"[24] Tago Mago draws inspiration from such sources as jazz musicians such as Miles Davis and from electronic avant-garde composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen.

[27] The tracks "Aumgn" and "Peking O", which feature Czukay's tape and radio experiments, have led music critics to call Tago Mago the group's "most extreme record in terms of sound and structure".

Hildegard approached United Artists and Liberty Records, telling the labels they would only allow the release of Tago Mago as a double album.

"[2] In a less favorable review, Michael Watts of Melody Maker, on one hand, praised Tago Mago for "strange, alien quality", contrasted with the "placidity and unadventurousness" of Pink Floyd's recent Meddle, while expressing disappointment for a lack of "any deep sense of the spirit of rock and roll in the music.

John Lydon of the Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd. called it "stunning" in his autobiography Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs.

[47] Bobby Gillespie of the Jesus and Mary Chain and Primal Scream said of the album: "The music was like nothing I'd ever heard before, not American, not rock & roll but mysterious and European.

The Fall recorded "I Am Damo Suzuki", based on the Tago Mago track "Oh Yeah", for their 1985 album This Nation's Saving Grace.

The song "Halleluwah" reached the fourth placement as a "track of the year", behind Kraftwerk's "Ruckzuck", Tangerine Dream's "Alpha Centauri", and Et Cetera's "Raga".

[56] All tracks are written by Can (Holger Czukay, Michael Karoli, Jaki Liebezeit, Irmin Schmidt and Damo Suzuki).