newsmarch 1 - 2000the new borne collaboration idea is making progress right from the start. the first project "africana" has already seven participants and that is enough for the beginning. according to everybody's personality the delivered samples were all different and an unexpected speed is heating up the idea delivering a common piece of music from a bunch of people who even don't know each other. the second project is supposed to become a video collaboration and here we were facing more difficulties than we had expected. main problem: which format is the right one? normal video editing software doesn't accept data saving real format and so we are thinking of collecting small scenes of 1 minute duration in uncompressed avi or quicktime format. for more details please check "collabs project II".u-she's single "sunday morning" is out now on emi germany. my lawyer said to me that it was one of his hardest contracts he was involved in. in fact it was one of the easiest contracts i was signing, it only took us 6 weeks comparing with older contracts which took my manager about 1 year(!) to get through. nevertheless, "sunday morning" was supposed being released one year ago and so it got promoted on the can solo projects tour with u-she performing on stage within the gvoon project "magazine". after the 4 concerts in germany we decided to abandon magazine and go our own ways and this is one of the reasons why "sunday morning" was delayed.
people who know me a bit will be surprised that i was going to play an old velvet track. u-she's voice was somehow demanding that and she "insistently" insisted doing that piece. so i was meeting myself playing some of the instruments as in the original track. usually a cover version is supposed to sound different than the original but i preferred to get as near as possible to the old version - this time.
photo: ursula klossafter thirty years of innovating productions and inventions the legendary can studio is now for sale. it certainly is one of the few magic places where you can feel the breath of music and this is why all the various musicians having worked there did appreciate it so much. the studio had made a lot breaking through inventions by sheer necessity. from the very beginning (1968) can decided never to book "ordinary" recording studios as these studios didn't provide that specific playground can needed for inspiration. from the first moment we started thinking in terms of "sampling" though this word didn't even exist at that time. tago mago was such an album proving what we were behind to. one of the main features was the communication idea between the musicians. as the studio is based in a former cinema we were setting up the technique rather in the middle of the place allowing the musicians sitting around a bar and talking to the "bar keeper" instead of being connected via intercom. communication had to be achieved as easy as possible and the musicians should become a part rather of an atmosphere instead being confronted with technical problems. this idea of setting up technique more in a landscape than creating separate recording and monitoring rooms was picked up by the big studio designers in the eighties.
after the can members decided to concentrate themselves more on their own musical ideas and visions myself and the former roadie rene tinner took over the studio and this was the beginning of a commercial successful period when lots of different artists like david sylvian or bestseller in germany marius mueller westernhagen were spending their time being and working there. the installed equipment contains the most up to date recording and processing devices plus a list of old analogue goodies like special tube filters or the legendary hammond b3. <can studio> <history of the can studio studio>
the reason why the can studio is going to for sale is due to the departure of rene tinner wanting to be free and independent and thus looking for new kinds of surroundings.
for more infos or contacts please send an email canstudio@czukay.de or get in contact directly with rene: (49)-2254-96 16 20 12 / or 19. fax number is (49)-2254-96 16 20 17.cheers and bye for nowholgerfor older news versions click here to the numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28.copyright by holger czukay, produced by gvoon, all rights reserved