Holz - Holger Zilske

Advantages: It's emphasized loss of time and space
Disadvantages: Head hurts after listening more than 77 times

...movie (or was it? hmm...). You know, when the guy drives the car at night after he killed 4 people. Holger Czukay, Jah Wobble and Laki Liebezeit - FULL CIRCLE ladies and gentlemen! (can you hear the applause in your head?)... Read review

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Advantages: Great potential
Disadvantages: Very much a debut album

...The Tourists were a power pop outfit whose brightest moment was the Dusty Springfield cover, I Only Wanna Be With You, which made number 5 in 1979. After they split up, their driving and creative force, Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox formed a new partnerships with the Eurythmics, which took a very different approach to the Tourists. They recorded some demos with DAF drummer Robert Gorl, and ex-Can members Jackie Liebezeit and Holger Czukay in Conny Plank?s studio in Cologne. The demos were taken up by RCA and provided the material for the first album In The Garden in 1981. Blondie drummer Clem Burke fleshed out the sound and the LP displayed a wide range of styles, from passionate pop to avant garde electronics. The uptempo feel of the music was often undercut by Annie?s moody, aching lyrics and powerful vocals, as in the track... Read review

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Advantages: Great Free Form Experenental Rock
Disadvantages: Can be a bit much if you are not in the mood

...Can were formed in 1968 in Cologne (Köln) as "Inner Space", comprising of Holger Czukay (Bass), Irmin Schmidt (Keyboards), both of whom were music teachers who had studied under Karlheinz Stockhausen, Michael Karoli (Guitar) who was a pupil of Czukay, and Jaki Liebezeit (Drums), along with David Johnson (reeds, winds, electronics and tape manipulation). In the autumn of 1968 they were joined by American vocalist Malcolm Mooney whose ranting contrasted the start minimalism of the music. Johnson left shortly after the arrival of Mooney, who would leave in 1969 apparently for mental health reasons. Malcolm Mooney was then replaced by Damo Suzuki; a Japanese traveler found busking outside a café. Suzuki's presence was less confrontational than Mooney's, his multi-lingual often incomprehensible vocal style added a certain element to... Read review

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