As the drummer of the legendary Krautrock Band Can, Jaki liebezeit has played for an international career, which led him, along with Brian Eno and Depeche Mode. Now he is died.
Everyone seems to know who or what Can. Herb rocker. Mechanical engineering. Electronics pioneers. Once Again, Herb Rocker. Germany’s first rock band of international standing. Czukay. Schmidt. Karoli. Love-time. Long Hair. Proud Mustaches. Rolling Rhythms. Psychedelic Drug. Atonal Astray. Herb. Rock.
And yet: It’s a strange uncertainty remains, if one says Can. Which may mean that this Indeterminate refers at least to the core of the Can-music, maybe even the core itself and all of the Rock and the herb is only the poodle: “I Have, alas, Jazz, Stockhausen and the radio and, unfortunately, the Blues thoroughly studied, with hot Trying to get ready …” Can, as German as the own?
On Sunday, is Jaki liebezeit, the clock of the Band, at the age of 78 years, of pneumonia died. “Want me to burn almost to the heart”, seeking to once again Goethe. And Liebezeits surprising demise should serve as a pretext, Can afterwards zulauschen, once more.
1968: Czukay and Schmidt came from the electronic music, had studied with Stockhausen. Karoli looked especially well with its E-guitar, ten years younger than the other, is eye-catching to a time when you should’t trust anyone over Thirty.
And Jaki liebezeit? The had crossed the magical age limit as Czukay and Schmidt already was established to look at a career as a Jazz drummer, especially as a nervous pulse in the Free-Ensemble of Manfred Schoof; love has solved but with a Can quickly of the international models and it’s own until today copied the style of the drums-Stoik.
Time experiments, time correct Hits
Together with the often-changing, always somehow out of place acting singers through, to feel Can a music, the of Anglo-American, especially by Afro-American role models and influences emancipated, as the other still compulsively trying to meet exactly the American or British style specifications.
The base of the Can’s music was a kind of collective improvisation; since it was close to the Free Jazz. But the failure of this game was not the expressivity, the sweaty Funk of the body, the shrill Blues-cry, but a emotion tableau, a flat sound-world of the Individual, although it could resemble, formally, about the music of the Art ensemble of Chicago, but in the next Moment, the Stupidity of the Velvet UndergroundSongs.
Holger Czukay-mounted from the jointly-created Material, then, in the spirit of the great Miles Davis producer Teo Macero Can-pieces, could time seem to go overboard-experimental, time correct Hits produced, such as “Spoon” or “I Want More”.
International career
together, these were held constant, such as after a big Bang apart the elements of the Can-music Can-Band-mysticism, which had a kind of electronic spirit, faith, as well as with the psychedelic drug experiences of the musicians strut: “The spirit world is not closed…”
Jaki love time fell here, perhaps, the role of the pulse to give the sceptic, of the dark star. As a Can no longer able to hold the end of the Seventies the musical and personal Forces, began Jaki liebezeit as a matter of course for an international career.
He laid the rhythmic reason for Michael Rothers time as incredibly successful Solo albums; he was hired by Brian Eno, Depeche Mode and Jah Wobble, and to generate by means of his drumming meditations have a certain sense for the non-return of the things.
Old, famous, modest
The advent of an electronic subgenre of Pop, which finally culminated in House and Techno, filled the great musician with some joy, because his physical game was a very simple drums on a regular basis for the surprised statement, he, love, time, games like a machine, just better.
At best, the shift is documented to contemporary electronics on the albums, with Burnt Friedman. But Jaki liebezeit took the time, with a relatively unknown musicians, such as Robert Coyne plates; three albums are created in this unexpected Baren constellation, each of them tells a sequence of bone-dry well-rehearsed Song-Miniatures, And the modesty with which the old, famous love is the music of a young man from London, the us perhaps more about the man than the complete work of Can.
mesmerize is A chord only, and long as he draws
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