Songfacts®:

• This ten-minute track was a last-minute addition to Ege Bamyasi. Keyboardist Irmin Schmidt recalled to Uncut in 2016: "We'd found out the record was too short; it needed 10 more minutes of music, but by the next morning, so we wrote, played and recorded it the night before. No editing!"
  
  Bassist Holger Czukay added: "'Soup' is my favourite track (on Ege Bamyasi). In its various ingredients, including electronics and avant-garde, it is indeed like a soup."
• The striking cover art for Ege Bamyasi originated when drummer Jaki Liebezeit spotted a can of okra with that name in a Turkish grocery shop in Cologne and brought it to the band's attention. The exact design on the actual food can was patented and couldn't be used outright, so the group created their own version modeled on it.