Thirty years ago, former Japan singer/guitarist David Sylvian and CAN legend Holger Czukay released "Plight & Premonition", a collaborative album whose experimental spirit still amazes today. One year later they continued their cooperation with "Flux + Mutability". Now the German label Greenland is relaunching its adventurous works. David Sylvian tells the story of its creation.
Holger Czukay has left behind an incomparable oeuvre. Not only with his band CAN, with which he wrote rock history since 1968, but also with large parts of his solo work, with which he paved the way for styles like HipHop or Techno. But as soon as Czukay has left us, one must seriously ask oneself whether he actually existed, or whether he was only the projection of the idealized artist. With all his technical finesse, he seemed to belong to the dying species of the art inventor, who, shielded from the rest of the world, creates gigantic things under the roof. With his velvet cap and sickle beard he could have sprung from a painting by Carl Spitzweg. When you met him, you never knew exactly whether he was in his imagination or in reality. The gates of his perception were always wider open than those of the rest of his surroundings.
From Caterina Valente to Dieter Bohlen
![The gentle shaman - To the death of the "human rhythm machine" JAKI LIEBEZEIT](https://www.eclipsed.de/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/JakiLiebezeit%20N%C3%96rve%20-%20SpoonRecords%20web.jpg?itok=4fhrxl7H "The gentle shaman - To the death of the "human rhythm machine" JAKI LIEBEZEIT")
The prophet has no honor in his own country. When on Monday, January 23, the news of the death of Jaki Liebezeits the day before went through the media, many Germans heard this name for the first time. After all, now they've even heard him. The percussionist and drum philosopher Jaki Liebezeit was no less than one of the most influential German musicians of the 20th century.
![Rappelkiste - IRMIN SCHMIDT looks back on his life's work in the form of the box "Electro Violet](https://www.eclipsed.de/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/IrminSchmidt0613Gullick2013sm%20web.jpg?itok=x6HPmoGU "Rappelkiste - IRMIN SCHMIDT looks back on his life's work in the form of the box "Electro Violet")
The composer and keyboarder Irmin Schmidt, who lives in southern France, is one of the most influential musical personalities Germany has produced in the twentieth century. First and foremost, his name is associated with the Cologne band CAN, but he has also created numerous solo albums, soundtracks and even an opera. One year before his eightieth birthday, a box entitled "Electro Violet" with the retrospective of his complete works appeared. With a not insignificant limitation.
eclipsed: Irmin, why this retrospective now?
Irmin Schmidt: A lot has accumulated over the years. One day you just want to see all his work. Much of it was no longer on the market. Instead of dripping the CDs one by one, all are now available at once. Later you can certainly also buy them individually, but a complete edition is also a pleasant thing for everyone.
eclipsed: But it's not all your work. An important part is missing.
KING CRIMSON
40 years "In The Court Of The Crimson King"
"In The Court Of The Crimson King" founded Progressive Rock. Although there were already psychedelic experiments and ambitious concepts before 1969, it was only King Crimson who set to work with the will to create great art. It was the first album of the band that had just formed - and the only one in its original line-up.
40 years ago: CAN and AMON DÜÜL II release their debut albums
GENESIS
Turn It On Again! - Comeback of the year?
The big reunion fever doesn't stop at Genesis either. In June, the old masters of 70s progressive rock and tasty to tasty 80s pop go on their first tour (with Banks/Rutherford/Collins) in 15 years. Before that, they are still waiting with ambitious re-issues from their opulent back catalogue. eclipsed met the band for an exclusive interview in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
BRYAN FERRY
The Last Dandy
