Holger Czukay Der Privatsinfoniker

A portrait of the Cologne avantgarde composer and musician Holger Czukay who called himself a private symphonist In 1968 Czukay a music college graduate and Stockhausen student founded the band Can together with his fellow student Irmin Schmidt In the following years Can became one of the most innovative music groups of the time In their music which was mainly based on improvisation parts influenced by free jazz mixed with rock passages repetitive met catchy melodies and dissolved compositional influences from new music with the classical rock schemes At the same time Cans music was always groovebased and danceable despite all the complexity