Jaki Liebezeit
Jaki Liebezeit ( born May 26, 1938 in Dresden ) is a German drummer.
Life and work
First love time worked as a jazz musician; among other things, he played in the early sixties in Barcelona with pianist Tete Montoliu and trumpeter Chet Baker. After returning to West Germany he worked in 1966 and 1967 with the Manfred Schoof Quintet and the Globe Unity Orchestra in the area of free jazz.
Then he founded in 1968 with Holger Czukay, Irmin Schmidt and Michael Karoli, the band Can, a German rock band with an international reputation and influence, but stressed again and again that she was not a " rock band" in the true sense.
Since 1978 he worked as a studio musician from Cologne, including for the Zeltinger Band, Michael Rother, Gianna Nannini, Eurythmics, Depeche Mode, Pascal Comelade or Brian Eno. He also had a role in the tremendous success of Joachim Witt. He has played, among others the hit of the Golden Rider a with. Love time accompanied Witt with other musicians such as Helmut Zerlett, Harald Gutowski and Harald Grosskopf.
Since the 1980s, Liebezeit in-house projects, of which particular Drums Off Chaos must be emphasized; there only play drums at a very high level of an abstract drum music. Liebezeit also collaborated with guitarist Dominik von Senger ( Phantom Band, unreported ) and with British bassist Jah Wobble. In 1995, love time with guitarist and instrument maker Dirk way here (* 1965) and the synthesizer player Boris Polonsky (born 1972 ), the formation " Club Off Chaos", with whom he released three albums in addition to numerous live performances. 2002 solved " Club Off Chaos" transient.
In the same year Liebezeit published together with the musician and producer Burnt Friedman album Secret Rhythms. In 2006 he Secret Rhythms II In 2008, Secret Rhythms III was published. Love time and Friedman occur until today as a duo or with various other musicians worldwide live on.
From 2005 he worked with the artist Werner Kiera (aka data processors ). In the course of cooperation wild, experimental sound fragments that hit archaic and unconventional rhythms originated. Two artists diverse backgrounds come together here; between two extreme poles creates a fascinating tension. The result from this collaboration are two online albums: GIVT and GIVT return.
The end of 2008 love time worked in the Berlin studio recording session with Phillip Boa on a new album. He played for Phillip Boa and the Voodoo Club Drums for early 2009 released album a Diamonds case and accompanied the band on five concerts.
In fall 2009, he participated on the published on 12 March 2010 Schiller album " Breathless ".
Jaki Liebezeit plays a modified his own drums without pedals. To his rhythmic conception, he says: " You have to play monotone, ie always the same, repeat the same rhythmic cycle, repeat, repeat. Then arises Groove. "Or, in the words of the Can- mate Holger Czukay: " Jaki plays like a machine. Just better. "