RIP Holger Czukay which mean Irmin Schmidt is the only surviving CAN man (I mean members from the beginning to the end obviously, I know Damo Suzuki and Michael Mooney remain)
This is one of his solo ones that I love. He looks especially “mad uncle” in it…
Sad news that.
One of his collaborations with David Sylvian, Flux & Mutability, is one of my favourite records to sleep to. Just gorgeous.
RIP
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnlmt5ql-X8
It’s so great for us Gary, that however they managed to meet and collaborate. Brilliant Trees.
Stay cool in the pool.
Oh dear. That’s sad. It’s been a bad year for us Can fans.
In 1979, I bought Holger Czukay’s “Movies” on a whim, after reading a rave review of it somewhere. It sounded like nothing I’d ever heard. Ingenious but not pretentious. Pioneering, but in a playful kind of way. I played the two long tracks, “Oh Lord Give Us More Money” and “Hollywood Symphony” again and again. They were weird but strangely engaging – a huge collage of found voices and sounds. Who was this funny German guy whose surname I couldn’t pronounce?
“Movies” set me up for a lifetime listening to the music of Can and Czukay, and his various collaborations. What a man. Rest easy, Holger.
Shine a light wherever you are Holger Czukay.
If he’d done nothing more than the Snake Charmer EP with Jah Wobble and The Hedge, it would have been a life worth living. RIP.
I had forgotten he was on that!
Sad news.
I have enormous affection for HC, seeing him as some kind of benign, brilliant (& a bit crazy) musical uncle figure, always fascinated & fascinating.
He was my entry point to the musical world of CAN, & I credit his avuncular manner with being a significant factor in me being persauded to explore them – I think I’d have found them a bit difficult & ‘intimidating’ as a youngster without the knowledge that HC was central to them & posessed a fab sense of humour.
RIP
Surfing the radio waves as star dust once more, it’ll be a long time before the particles reconfigure as him again.
Another little spate of deaths.
This is making me feel even older than I did already.
Love, love, love, love, love, LOVE CAN.
RIP
Great man. Great, great man.
He died – rather poetically – in the original Can Studio in Weilerstwist near Cologne. He lived with his partner in the former Cinema since the original interior and equipment had been moved to the German Rock Museum in Gronau (where it has since been meticulously re-assembled, including egg cartons, carpets and mattresses on the walls).
This is sad news. Holger’s music brought colour, joy and the right kind of weird to the world.
RIP, you lovely man.