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 […]
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 […]
Earlier this year Burnt Friedman and Jaki Liebezeit, Irmin Schmidt and Jono Podmore came together for their first collaboration and released the 4 track Cyclopean EP. Liebezeit and Schmidt had worked together as members of CAN. Liebezeit and Friedman had worked together with their Secret Rhythms project and Podmore had worked with Schmidt for many […]