Holger Shukai died

On September 5, in the CAN group in the city of Vailevist in West Germany, a CAN Basistist, electronic music pioneer Holger Shukai, was found dead.

According to Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , the police are investigating, the cause of the death of the musician has not yet been named.

Holger Shukai was born in 1938 in Danzig (now Gdansk), in 1961–1966 he studied music with Karlhainz Shtokhausen, in 1968, along with the keyboardist Irmin Schmidt, guitarist Mikhael Karoli and the drummer Yaki Libetsita founded the experimental rock band CAN , who played the key role In the formation of the direction of Krautok and a significant impact on the avant-garde, an emboss, New Web, experimental and electronic music.

In the group, Shukai not only played on the bass, but also engaged in sound recording and sound engineering. CAN Music was built on free improvisation and post-processing of sound, Sukai called this principle “instant composition”. With his participation, CAN in 1969-1977 recorded nine studio albums.

After leaving the group, Shukai released a number of solo albums, experimenting with various recording and sampling techniques, participated in joint projects with other musicians, such as Konni Planck, Jah Ubble, Edge, David Silwian and Brian Ino.