HOLGER CZUKAY

Instrumental mix of "Cool in the Pool" is objectively awesome. It's like a miniature of everything I like about Holger. Weird varispeed dictaphone edits, jittery French horn and synth blasts, chunky little guitar rhythms, and his very underrated liquid guitar leads.

Have to say: I've always struggled a bit with the two longer tracks on Movies (née Movie). They feel a lot like Can's mid-period stuff but leave me a bit cold.

Dammit.

http://www.ksta.de/koeln/deutsche-rock-ikone--can--bassist-holger-czukay-tot-aufgefunden-28364470

Oh come on

Oh no

Holger Czukay is dead. The great Cologne musician and co-founder of the band "Can", died at the age of 79 years in the legendary "Can" studio - an old cinema in Weilerswist - which he had converted into the apartment in recent years.
When and exactly what the musician with the black hair and the conspicuous mustache has died, is currently determined by the Kripo.

Because construction workers had not seen him on the site for a few days, they informed a neighbor who was looking-and found Czukay lifeless in his apartment. An emergency surgeon could only determine his death.
Holger Czukay, who revolutionized the musical world from 1968 to 1978, died only a few days after his wife Ursula, who died on July 28th on her 55th birthday.

damn ... RIP. one of the best.

:-(

Oh man, I caught my breath there, thought he might have died!

― Tom D., Friday, 4 April 2008 09:09 (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

... and now he has ;_; One of the most important and talented musicians of the last 50 years, RIP Holger. Sad times. ;_;

Rotten news

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjZHN1CX77Q

RIP big guy

Will be throwing on Ege Bamyasi as loud as possible tonight. RIP, a legend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBSLVtg083U

Thank you, Holger Czukay.

I am becoming less sure that we're not in the hands of some horrible cosmic jokers at this moment in world history.

With Stockhausen, pre-moustache...

http://www.czukay.com/news/122/images/stockh.jpg

JUst had to ask myself if he was still with us. I knew he was getting on. I think he was already oldish for a new band member when Can started. Sad tohear he's gone though.
Hope his passing wasn't overly painful or slow.

He's left behind some awesome music anyway.
THink I need to pick up another couple of titles by him. I iknow On The Way to the Peak of Normal is great. NOt sure what else fo his solo stuff is as necessary.

Is Irmin Schmidt still with us?

Yes, Schmidt is still here, along with Malcolm Mooney and Damo Suzuki.

Irmin is still with us. He was the oldest too.

One More Night one of my top 5 favorite bass lines of anyone ever

RIP my dude. ;_;

grateful for such a true original musical adventurer and brilliant mind.

One More Night one of my top 5 favorite bass lines of anyone ever

Undoubtedly played more of my favourite basslines than any other bass player... even Bootsy!

Love him. RIP.

RIP to one of the greats, sad I never got to see him play live

RIP, great guy

rip :(

RIP :( <3

Another one down ...

A great loss. :(

This makes me sad. I knew he wasn't in good health but still. In addition to being a genius, Czukay was such a titanic influence on so many geniuses.

Gonna spin Persian Love for my man this evening.

Back in my graduate school years, I was hosting a show on the local college radio station. I never, never got calls from people listening saying anything in regards to what I was playing. One night, I got a call from a listener asking about a song I had played. He was a music teacher he told me that he really liked the bassline of a song he'd heard because he thought it would be a great introductory song to his students learning the bass guitar. I told him it was "She Brings the Rain" by Can and thanked him.

From an album Holger & Jaki go full tilt on, something they often did live but less so in the studio...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zKl3S-Ousw

the dum-dum, the dsda, the daddy. rip hc

just the absolute greatest spirit behind what he did, so loveable as well as everything else, he had a fkn awesome life

Oh man, his wife had died in July. :(

RIP

I don't like any of Can dying, because they were gods in my formative years.

and she was only 55 apparently

Xp obv

That's from the Guardian obit which also mentions that 'Irwin Schmidt and Malcolm Moody' recently played in London, don't know who those guys are though.

RIP Holger. I was sad he didn't play at the show the Guardian made a hash of reporting on earlier this year.

Strange days as Holger wanders out at the end of "Never Going to Cry Again" to play his trademark elephant-in-distress French horn...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2rRLc1Dmv4

This track is from a recording session with Jah Wobble where the only bit he used from the entire session was Wobble tuning up...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cXshWlOkc4

oh wow first Walter Becker, now Holger - damn. Really feels like the closing of an era.

Can was my gateway drug out of a fairly claustrophobic indie rock environment in the early 90s. Holger was the linchpin and I'd expect that my musical tastes would be so much more narrow if it weren't for the massive appeal that his work had (and continues to have) for me. RIP.

What's his best solo album?

Movies, I'm guessing.

I've been looking for a copy of "On the way to the peak of normal" off and on the past year. Just bit one and got it off ebay just now.

i feel sad for irmin :(
can't even get his name spelled right in the paper!

Maybe about 12 years ago, Holger Czukay's name was stuck in my head for several days during a period of extreme stress, just cycling through every time i had an idle moment. Over and over and over, Holger Czukay. Persistent like a bassline, RIP

RIP

What's his best solo album?

Movies is his most impressive, seems like a real technical and musical achievement, does that make it his best? I don't know. I like all of his albums, there's only a couple I haven't heard, they're inconsistent but they're always interesting - I don't think he could be boring if he tried.

Movies is definitely his Can - iest solo record right? Most of the band is on it anyway ... Was listening to "Persian Love" on repeat this morning, so gorgeous.