Holger Czukay
Czukay was born in the Free City of Danzig. Czukay co-founded krautrock group Can in 1968. He played bass guitar and performed most of the recording and engineering for the group. He left Can in 1977 a few years before the group's official breakup, and was replaced by bassist, Rosko Gee, of the British band, Traffic. After his departure from Can, Czukay recorded some notable early ambient albums. His trademarks became the use of shortwave radio sounds and his early pioneering of sampling, in those days involving the painstaking cutting and splicing of magnetic tapes.
Movies (LP)
Original German edition on Harvest/EMI of the excellent 1979 debut solo album by Can's bassist and producer, featuring fellow band members Irmin Schmidt and Michael Karoli.
Brilliant Trees (LP)
Original Italian edition on Virgin of Japan's singer's first solo album of refined art-pop from 1984, featuring Can's Holger Czukay, Jon Hassell, YMO's Ryuichi Sakamoto, Mark Isham and fellow Japan Steve Jansen and Richard Barbieri.
Brilliant Trees (LP)
Original Italian edition on Virgin/Venture of the collaboration between Japan's singer and Can's bass player and producer for a beautiful album of refined ambient music released in 1988, also featuring fellow Can Jaki Liebezeit.
Plight & Premonition (LP)
Original Italian edition on Virgin/Venture of the collaboration between Japan's singer and Can's bass player and producer for a beautiful album of refined ambient music released in 1988, also featuring fellow Can Jaki Liebezeit.
How Much Are They? (12"EP)
Original UK edition on Island of the 1981 EP with the post-punk dub experiments by PIL's bass player and two members of the mighty Can.
Alchemy An Index of Possibilities
Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities is the second solo studio album by David Sylvian, Alchemy is an intermediary album, released between his first solo album Brilliant Trees and his next solo album Gone to Earth, and it is made up of various separate projects. Re-presses were released with an earlier b/w photograph of Sylvian instead of the original artwork. This version is pressed on corona gold opaque red colour vinyl and uses the most recent remastered audio.
Der Osten Ist Rot
Late 80's re-issue on Virgin of Holger Czukay's 1984 third solo album after Can, featuring Jaki Liebezeit and Conny Plank.
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Movies
Original 1979 UK edition on EMI of Holger Czukay's first solo album after Can, featuring all other members of the band.
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Canaxis 5
1982 first re-issue on Spoon of Czukay's ground-breaking 1969 album under the name Technical Space Composer's Crew.
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Gvoon Brennung 1
Previously unreleased music from the archives of Can cofounder Holger Czukay will be released as an album in the new year. Out on March 28th through Grönland Records, Gvoon - Brennung 1 contains 65 minutes of material that's believed to date back to the '90s. The genesis for the release started last year at Berlin dance performance Take Off Sound, when artist Arthur Schmidt, AKA Gvoon, brandished a flash drive and handed it to Dirk Dresselhaus. It is a case of pop cultural archaeology. A search …
Sushi. Roti. Reibekuchen
The collaboration between Brian Eno, one of the main figure in ambient music, Holger Czukay, a pioneer of krautrock from the band Can, and J. Peter Schwalm, a German composer, resulted in the creation of a musical project called Sushi. Roti. Reibeckuchen - a unique live collaboration. The impromptu performance was documented in 1998 in Bonn, Germany, but it has recently been released to the global audience.
Full Circle
A total peach comes back into circulation with Holger Czukay’s beguiling, heavily grooving ‘Full Circle’, starring crucial input from his Can bandmate Jaki Liebzeit on drums and Jah Wobble weilding the bass
Instantly loveable for the grooving punk-disco ear worm of album opener ‘How Much Are They? - a big anthem in mid ‘80s Belgium and elsewhere - listeners will also encounter the muggy dub of ‘Where’s The Money?’ and the playfully exotic concrète-jazz-funk of ‘Full Circle R.P.S. (No. 7)’, along…
Radio Wave Surfer
Holger Szukay’s sixth solo LP Radio Wave Surfer gets the reissue treatment courtesy of Groenland Records. Originally released in 1991, Radio Wave Surfer found the late Can bassist coming through with some of his most succinct and immediate work. Cuts such as ‘Weird Dreams’ and ‘Get It Sweet’ streamlined Szukay’s experimental tendencies in order to create lean Krautrock vignettes that still pack a heady psychedelic punch. Funnily enough for such a focussed listen, many of the tracks on Radio Wave…
Plight & Premonition Flux & Mutability
Four beautiful, exceptional ambient nocturnes bloom again on a very welcome 30th anniversary reissue, newly packaged together by Grönland for the benefit of your health... David Sylvian and Holger Czukay’s Plight + Premonition [1988] & Flux + Mutability [1989] bouquets remain some of the most enigmatic ambient recordings of the ‘80s since their conception at Czukay’s converted cinema studio in Köln, 1986. But, while Sylvian was ostensibly coming to record vocals for the last track on Czukay’s Ro…
Moving Pictures
Inspired by "non-existing atmospheric disturbance" films, Motion Pictures is actually Holger Czukay's quasi-sequel to Movies, his classic 1979 LP. Long recognized as perhaps the oddest and most adventurously minded member of Can, Czukay has created a broad solo catalogue of unfamiliar, adjunct music with a sorcerer's touch. Besides his trusty bass, Czukay has a fascination with--and a master's understanding of--the studio as instrument. His most provocative audio collages are designed via tape s…
Rome Remains Rome
The 5th solo album by Holger Czukay, ‘Rome Remains Rome’ bubbles up for its 30th anniversary reissue on Gronland - bastion of all things good and Krautrock. Arriving after a string of total classics such as ‘Movies’ and ‘Full Circle’’, and before his ambient outings with David Sylvian, 1987’s ‘Rome Remains Rome’ is a typically, lysegically playful and odd collection of songs tripping lines between pop, jazz and the avant-garde.Make sure to check it for Holger’s possessed vocals on the psychedeli…
Cinema
5cd box edition. An overview of Holger Czukay's solo work and collaborations, also including Canaxis 5 (1969) - a legendary album which fuses ambient, ethnic music and early form of sampling, several years before anybody else started to get to grips with any of those ideas - Movies (1979), On The Way To The Peak Of Normal (1981), Full Circle (1982), Der Osten Ist Rot (1984), Rome Remains Rome (1987) and Radio Wave Surfer (1991). This five-LP set features a 36-page booklet, DVD of movie starrin…
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