tomorrowcomesomedayblog:

Holger Czukay, best known as a co-founding member of Can, has reportedly died aged 79.

Czukay was found dead in his in Weilerswist home, a former cinema
that is also the site of Can’s Inner Space Studio. As Cologne newspaper Express
reports, construction workers working at the site had not spotted
Czukay for a few days, with a neighbour eventually finding him dead in
his apartment. A surgeon was called to the apartment and declared him
dead, the cause of which is currently unknown.

Born in 1938 in Gdańsk, Poland, Czukay studied music under the
guidance of Karlheinz Stockhausen from 1963 to 1966, going on to become a
music teacher. Czukay’s interest in experimental rock music was piqued
when a student of his played him The Beatles’ ‘I Am the Walrus’ with the
multi-instrumentalist going on to co-found Can in 1968.

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