Holger Czukay
Holger Czukay ( born March 24, 1938 in Gdansk as Holger Schüring ) is a German bass player who was known as a band member of Can and internationally.
Career
His musical career began Czukay 1960, when he made his first recordings and played in an amateur jazz band. From 1963 to 1966 he studied composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen at the Musikhochschule in Cologne. In the following two years, he occasionally worked as a music teacher, among other things, he was at Artland Gymnasium in Quakenbruck under the name Holger Schüring active. At that time he took part in sessions with the beat band The Remo Four. In 1968 he founded together with Irmin Schmidt, with whom he had studied in Cologne, the band Can, which he left in 1977 again. Then he released as a solo artist, time and again, with the participation of former Can- members, a number of solo albums, but had by the mid- 1990s, a strong dislike for live performances. He has worked with several international artists, including in the early 1980s, Jah Wobble, The Edge, the Eurythmics, David Sylvian, Brian Eno, or even Phew. In 1983 he worked with the band Trio. In 1987 he played the lead role in the experimental film War of the tones to which he contributed the whole music and also in the trio singer Stephan Remmler occurred. At the beginning of the 1990s Czukay worked with artists such as Peter Gabriel or Annie Lennox, he also occurs since often together with his partner U -She in appearance. In the mid-1990s, there were several joint projects with Air Liquide or Air Liquide with the musician Dr. Walker aka Ingmar Koch.
Discography (selection)
Discography with Can see Can.