September, 2Live appearence August 16 at Popkomm
it was the first time in my life that I went live on stage more or less alone - August 16 during the Popkomm in Cologne. For some days I was listening to records which I was collecting for some time and which mainly Doc Walker gave me worth listening. And we have here in Cologne another superb dj, named Dr. Bleed. Whenever I heard him in the delirium record shop or on an underground party I couldn’t stop getting fascinated by what I’d heard. And then there was this Can remix album Sacrelege. And when I listened to it I thought why not make a remix of some remixes and take this as a part of the live presentation. Soon it became clear to me that I couldn’t get that managed on stage only using two record players. Somehow the music had to become entirely pre produced so that there was enough space left for interactions with my musical equipment(ASR10 sampler, IBM 212 dictaphone, short wave receiver, cassettes) and also for "show elements". These I was actually practicing right after leaving Can in May 1977 in front of a video camera being mounted on a tripod. As an unannounced surprise U-She finished the live set with her not yet released "Rain".
Who is U-She? I wouldn’t have invested about 5 years concentrated work in her, if I wouldn’t believe about her ...unique talents as... Soon more about her. The whole event was filmed with super8 and Betacam and I’m glad about what came out. Have to think if this could be something for an internet broadcast.
new banks
Which leads me to the next point in obtaining soon a transmission licence for the internet. There are quite some videos which I have made during the last 15 years and I hope that 2 new hot spots on my front page
"sample bank" and "video bank" can be clicked. Have to sort that out with my sparring partner Arthur from gvoon. Arthur actually is worth to drop some words. Is it enough when I say he’s just the opposite what I am? He is doing most of the work for my server, because he wants that such a "gentleman" like me, without lots of money should not only have a home page , no, a whole server is even better and helps switching a bypass to record companies - among other new characteristics only possible via internet. This is an idea I don’t only like I even adore it! Be prepared to expect more changes in the future. Arthur and me want to do a special live event October next year in Berlin during a 3 days long festival concerning Can becoming 30 years old. The rough idea is an interaction between his artwork and myself as a musician without instruments through an infra red camera and a feedback through the internet by users participating. Even the chat system will play a main role in it Thanks God there is some time left for working that thing out and get some practice. All other Can members will of course also participate with own contributions to the Berlin festival.
Yes, thinking of bypasses to record companies... my manager Hildegard is releasing my albums "Movies" and "On the Way to the Peak of Normal"`on her SPOON label in October this year. Please have a look on my ordercatalogue from time to time. It will be or is now activated and it will offer you some of my latest productions which will be only available through the internet. Not to mention that I regard these as my strongest ever and that’s how I feel these days. Also the Czukay vs. Walker USA Live cd from our tour through the States in January this year is going to get released January or February next year. In America it will be done by Mute Records, In Japan it is supposed to go with EMI and in Europe you should get contacted to Nastrovje Potsdam and their Crippled Dick Hot Wax Records label. Crippled Dick Hot... you will easily understand properties when you'll see the pictures in the booklet; it looks that music becomes more and more merciless these days.chat
since the chat box was installed on my site we got sometimes traffic on there. I thought of having a meeting point there in the future. So I’d like to suggest a suitable date, Monday’s morning 3 a.m. Central European Time, for the US it would be Sunday’s 9 p.m. Eastern Time and 6 p.m. Western. In Tokyo it would be Monday’s morning 11 a.m. and Australia 1 p.m. Hope I got that right - in mathematics at school I was always the worst.bye for now, holgerfor older news versions click here to the numbers: 1, 2, 3.menucopyright by holger czukay, all rights reserved