The journey last week to find the graves of Jaki Liebezeit, Holger Czukay and his wife U-She might have piqued your interest in the German post-war experimental music scene of the seventies. By watching this very well put together documentary first aired on BBC 4 in 2009 you will have a much better understanding of […]
I try hard not to make the In Deep Music Archive posts a graveyard of obituaries despite the continuous high profile deaths, most recently musicians Glen Campbell, Walter Becker, Mick Softley, John Abercrombie and the terrible news yesterday that Swedish guitarist Peter Puders, who I knew from living in Stockholm, had taken his own life. […]
The last post on his website was six years ago, his music reaches from dense complex grooves, raw innovation to eccentricity. I love an intellectual with a self deprecating sense of humour, Czukay’s and his former band CAN’s massive influence on me and the world is hard to gauge. Here he is in 1979 riding […]
Well this is a s close as you are going to get to a video from Sibylle Baier as she never commercially released her record in the period that it was recorded or even continued to make records at all. Still, it’s intriguing to think what might have been. Here she is singing a few […]
This is the first album in a series that producer multi-instrumentalist Burnt Friedman and Jaki Liebezeit, legendary CAN drummer have made together. The project reflects what they have discovered in the rhythms of other cultures – Secret Rhythms. Liebezeit’s metronomic drumming explores African, Indian and Arabic patterns and is connected via wires and spirit to Friedman’s ambient […]
In this clip Liebezeit talks about emptying his mind to concentrate on playing the pieces and Friedman about the music simply evoking the image of the musician that is playing it, seeing the characters in the pieces that “appear and disappear”. This unique duo connect to music in such a way as to mesmerise the […]