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Holger Czukay (born 24 March 1938) is a German musician, probably best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can. Events 1401 - Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus. 1603 - James VI of Scotland Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Krautrock is a generic name for the Experimental music scene that appeared in Germany in the late 1960s and gained popularity throughout the 1970s especially in Britain Can was a musical group formed in West Germany in 1968 One of the most important Krautrock groups Can had a style grounded in the Experimental rock of

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Biography

Czukay was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk). The Free City of Danzig ( German: Freie Stadt Danzig; Polish: Wolne Miasto Gdańsk) was an autonomous Baltic Sea port and Gdańsk ( Polish pronunciation; 'Danzig', Gduńsk Gedania Dantiscum is the City at the centre of the fourth-largest Metropolitan area in Poland He studied music under Karlheinz Stockhausen from 1963 to 1966[1] and then worked for a while as a music teacher. Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. Initially Czukay had little interest in rock music, but this changed when a student played him The Beatles' 1967 song "I Am The Walrus,"[2] opening his ears to music by rock experimentalists like the Velvet Underground and Frank Zappa. Rock music is a genre of Popular music often though not necessarily employing Electric guitar, Bass guitar, and Drums. The Beatles were a pop and rock band from Liverpool, England formed in 1960 " I Am the Walrus " is a 1967 song by The Beatles, written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon/McCartney. This article is about the band For their self-titled album see The Velvet Underground (album; for the book see The Velvet Underground (book Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21 1940 – December 4 1993 was an American Composer, Electric guitarist Record producer and Film director

Czukay co-founded krautrock group Can in 1968. Krautrock is a generic name for the Experimental music scene that appeared in Germany in the late 1960s and gained popularity throughout the 1970s especially in Britain Can was a musical group formed in West Germany in 1968 One of the most important Krautrock groups Can had a style grounded in the Experimental rock of Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He played bass guitar and performed most of the recording and engineering for the group. The electric bass guitar (also called electric bass, or simply bass; ˈbeɪs as in "base" is a Stringed instrument played primarily with the 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. Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays Rosko Gee is a Bassist who has played with the English band Traffic on their album When the Eagle Flies and the German Traffic were an English rock band formed in 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason.

After his departure from Can, Czukay recorded some notable early ambient albums. Ambient music is a Musical genre in which sound is more important than notes 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. Shortwave Radio operates between the frequencies of 3000 KHz (3 In Music, sampling is the act of taking a portion or sample, of one Sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or element of a new recording Magnetic tape is a medium for Magnetic recording generally consisting of a thin magnetizable coating on a long and narrow strip of Plastic. He would tape-record various sounds and snippets from shortwave and incorporate them into his compositions. He also used shortwave as a live, interactive musical instrument (such as on 1991's Radio Wave Surfer), a method of composition he termed radio painting. Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e

Czukay has collaborated with a considerable number of musicians, notably a series of albums with Jah Wobble and David Sylvian, [1] two young British musicians who shared his interest in blending pop music with experimental recording and sampling techniques. Jah Wobble (born John Wardle, in Stepney in 1958 is an English Bass guitarist singer Poet and Composer. David Sylvian (born David Alan Batt, 23 February 1958 in Beckenham, Kent, UK) is an English Singer, Musician Other collaborators include Brian Eno, Eurythmics, and the German New Wave band, Trio. Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948 commonly known as Brian Eno (ˈiːnoʊ is an English Musician, producer Eurythmics (often incorrectly referred to as The Eurythmics) is a British Musical duo, formed in 1980 by Annie Lennox and Dave Trio (sometimes written TRIO) was a German band that formed in 1980 and disbanded in 1985.

Discography

Solo:

With Can:

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Notes

  1. ^ a b Biography at Spoon Records
  2. ^ can - publications
This is a Discography of the Krautrock band Can. Studio albums Monster Movie (1969 Soundtracks Out of Reach is an album by the German Krautrock band Can, released as an LP in 1978 on Harvest Records
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