Well, 79's a good run. Listened to Landed twice today, the album on which HC really came to the fore as the leader of the group. Love his deadpan vocals and funny lyrics on that record... they don't get much notice for it, but Can really had a sense of humor. Good article here, with playlist of all songs referenced at the bottom. Only Mooney, Suzuki and Schmidt left standing, now...
When did Jaki pass away?! Oh no! EDIT: And Jaki passed due to pneumonia too. It's a sad day for me. And German music, and various electronic music genres, etc.
My brain just chose to invent a colorful animated sequence involving a smiling Czukay swimming through the cosmos to this tune: This is very sad news. It is some small consolation, though, to remember that Damo Suzuki is indeed immortal.
Hadn't realized it at the time, but the Holger variation that was swimming through the aether in my reverie looked very much like a Backshi'd rendition of this fine portrait: Still torn up. Found this fellow's commentary to be strangely comforting, though: Roots my grief back on the ground.
A little bit of elegiac sound from Holger himself: Floatspace And a little uplift from his collaboration with U-She: Words
