Yaki Libetsight died © Can - Spoon Records On January 22, at the age of 78, the German drummer Yaki Libetsight, one of the founders of the CAN group, died. The report on the group on Facebook says that pneumonia was the cause of death. Yaki Libetsight was born in Dresden in 1938, in the 1960s he played Free Jazz Quintet Manfred Schoof , in 1968, along with Holger Shukai, Irmin Schmidt, Mikhael Caroli and David Johnson, formed an experimental rock band Can .