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 […]
Three graves, two together, the other ten paces away. Today Olivia, myself and friends Brigitte and Mathias finally found the resting places of Holger Czukay and his wife, and close by Jaki Liebezeit – two members of CAN and Holger Czukay’s wife and collaborator Ursula, known as U-She and Ursa Major. They are buried here in Germany in […]
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 […]
This track from the magnificent Movies album is just a taster for hours and hours of Czukay listening pleasure where the avant-garde meets danceable pop. He shows us in the video that all those strange sounds and tempting trills are not just random noises, he knows exactly where they fit into this airy and complex […]
As a co-founder of CAN in 1968, Holger Czukay’s role in the band was playing bass, engineering and recording and editing the hours and hours of spontaneous jams, then turning them into intriguing musical tapestries of rhythm and sound. Czukay left CAN around 1978, sometime after Rosco Gee and Rebop Kwaku Baah (both from Traffic) […]