Description
Label Review.
Career box set including Canaxis (1969), Movies (1979), On The Way To The Peak Of Normal (1981) in their entirety plus selections from many of his other releases to 2008. DVD features ‘Krieg der Töne’ (‘War Of The Sounds’) which was produced for the most experimental late night program on German public television network ARD, ‘Das kleine Fernsehspiel’ (‘The Small Teleplay’) in 1989. Also available as a 5CD+DVD box set.
Our Overview.
Holger Czukay is best known for forming Can, one of Germany’s best known musical exports whose work is probably selling more copies today than during their 1970s heyday. He played bass for the group but increasing became involved more in the production and sound effects side of things eventually handing bass duties over to Rosco Gee (of Traffic) in 1977 before quitting the band in 1979.
He embarked on a solo career, which is detailed in this new box set and contains three of his albums in full alongside plenty of other highlights. Ian Harrison of Mojo writes: “The music in this box set does indeed demonstrate masterful arrangements of sounds and sources, movement and melody, humour and seriousness, that can well be described as magical. It is also a set of unpredictable keys and ciphers, revealing a unique worldview where high artistic rigour meets continual openness to chance and serendipity. In this, Holger not only cut and pasted music but time, place and mindsets, when such things in popular culture were not only technically near impossible but virtually unprecedented.”