Jaki Liebezeit

Jaki Liebezeit & Holger Mertin - Aksak (2015) {Staubgold 139}
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© 2015 Staubgold | Staubgold 139
Jazz / Electronic / World / Folk / Experimental / Alternative / Krautrock

Akşak is the exciting encounter of two exceptional musicians from different generations: legendary drummer Jaki Liebezeit (Can, Depeche Mode, Chet Baker) and percussion wizard Holger Mertin (Drums And More). Like a zen master of the minimal, repetitive beat, Liebezeit - famous for his hypnotic precision - creates with only few sound colours the perfect matrix for Mertin’s unleashed playing on any imaginable percussion instrument. The result is a mighty, complex pulse - the groove of a better world.

Holger Czukay, Jah Wobble, Jaki Liebezeit - Full Circle (1982) {Virgin CDOVD 437 rel 1992}
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© 1982, 1992 Spoon Records / Virgin | CDOVD 437
Krautrock / Dub / Avant-Garde / Art Rock / Experimental / Experimental Electronic

This early jewel in the career of Holger Czukay, recorded on the heels of his groundbreaking 1981 LP "On the Way to the Peak of Normal", should be required listening to fans of the idiosyncratic studio wizard, as always one of the more creative inmates in the Krautrock asylum. For this session Czukay was joined (once again) by Jaki Liebezeit, his erstwhile partner in the CAN rhythm section, and by maverick bass guitar legend Jah Wobble, forming one of the most distinctive and unusual power trios ever assembled (drums / bass / …shortwave radio?). The addition of Wobble's muscular bass guitar left Czukay free to indulge his fascination with studio sound collages (the album instrumentation credits him with 'radio painting'), here distilled to a more rock-based format not dissimilar from the energetic "Ode to Perfume", a highlight of his previous LP.

Irmler & Liebezeit - Flut (2014) {Klangbad 65}
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© 2014 Klangbad | Klangbad 65CD
Experimental / Abstract / Future Jazz

Six improvisations between organ and percussion from Faust's Jochen Irmler and Can's Jaki Liebzeit* "Jochen Irmler and Jaki Liebzeit met in the town of Scheer last July to prepare for an upcoming concert at the slaughterhouse in Sigmaringen as well as for a subsequent appearance in the Kammerspiele in Munich. However, they quickly decided to stop rehearsing and instead record FLUT - an album that regroups six improvisations between organ and percussion. FLUT adds another chapter to Irmler’s collaborations, which aim to explore, whenever possible, the hidden potential that lies dormant in the clash between prepared organ and drums.

Holger Czukay - Cinema (2018) {5CD + DVD5 NTSC Box Set Grönland Records CDGRON180} (Complete Artwork)
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© 2018 Grönland Records | CDGRON180
Experimental / Electronic / Ambient / Krautrock

LIMITED EDITION : (5CD+DVD) 2018 retrospective of the Can co-founder's solo works with bonus DVD "Krieg Der Töne" (War Of The Sounds) a late-'80s experimental film that he scored & starred in. Also includes booklet with unseen photos & a biography.

Wow!, what a fantastic DVD set it has everything a Can fan would want, three discs one mainly with a concert in 1972, the second one mainlya documentary and the third a music CD. The dvd's also have an interactive pc CDrom functions. Also their are loads of extras on each disc, a short and very humourous tribute by Brian Eno, individual interviews with the members. Short films with the members remastering specific Can tracks, you can sample the remastered tracks on the DVD. Their is the bands disography with photos of each CD, and a brief sample of one of the tracks on each respective album…

A five-disc boxset surveying the career of Krautrock icon and Can cofounder Holger Czukay is due out in March on Grönland Records.