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* 1938 – Holger Czukay, German musician ( Can )

The album mixed psychedelic, krautrock and electropop influences, and featured contributions from Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit ( of Can ), drummer Clem Burke ( of Blondie ), Robert Görl ( of Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft ), and flautist Tim Wheater.

Can constructed their music largely through collective spontaneous composition –– which the band differentiated from improvisation in the jazz sense –– sampling themselves in the studio and editing down the results ; bassist / chief engineer Holger Czukay referred to Can's live and studio performances as " instant compositions ".

Upon his return to Cologne later that year, an inspired Schmidt formed a group with American avant-garde composer and flautist David C. Johnson and music teacher Holger Czukay with the intention of exploring his newly broadened horizons.

During this period Holger Czukay was pushed to the fringes of the group's activity ; in fact he just made sounds using shortwave radios, Morse code keys, tape recorders and other sundry objects.

Holger Czukay has recorded several ambient albums and collaborated with David Sylvian among others, while Jaki Liebezeit has played extensively with bassists Jah Wobble and Bill Laswell, and in a drum ensemble called Drums of Chaos, and in 2005 with Datenverarbeiter on the online album Givt.

Holger Czukay and Irmin Schmidt were both pupils of Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Can inherited a strong grounding in his musical theory ; the latter was trained as a classical pianist, while Michael Karoli was a pupil of Holger Czukay and brought the influence of gypsy music through his esoteric studies.

The Scottish writer Alan Warner has written two novels in tribute to two different Can members ( Morvern Callar to Holger Czukay and The Man Who Walks to Michael Karoli respectively ).

The final cut of tracks, dating from 1968-1977, features studio material recorded at Schloss Nörvenich and Can Studio, Weilerswist with the Can line up of Holger Czukay on bass, Michael Karoli on guitars, Jaki Liebezeit on drums and Irmin Schmidt on keyboards, and on most tracks, vocals from Malcolm Mooney or Damo Suzuki.

* Holger Czukay – bass guitar, sound engineer, electronics ( 1968 – 1977, 1986 – 1991 )

The album included contributions from Ryuichi Sakamoto, trumpeter Jon Hassell, and former Can bassist Holger Czukay.

Never one to conform to commercial expectations, Sylvian then collaborated with Holger Czukay.

Unlike their past work, Sylvian decided to use methods of improvisation like those he explored in his work with Holger Czukay.

* Plight & Premonition David Sylvian and Holger Czukay ( 1988 )

* Flux and Mutability David Sylvian and Holger Czukay ( 1989 )

Krautrock is an eclectic and often very original mix of post-psychedelic jamming and moody progressive rock mixed with ideas from contemporary experimental classical music ( especially composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, with whom, for example, Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay of Can had previously studied ) and from the new experimental directions that emerged in jazz during the 1960s and 1970s ( mainly the free jazz pieces by Ornette Coleman or Albert Ayler ).

Holger Czukay ( born Holger Schüring ; 24 March 1938 ) is a German musician, probably best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can.

* A Holger Czukay interview ( 2004 )

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