Cinema

"Best New Reissue" - "... Cinema takes in Czukay's solo and collaborative work outside of Can, the iconic avant-rock quintet he co-founded in 1968. Starting in the early 1960s and ending in 2014, the set lights a path through his sprawling, winding oeuvre and confirms Czukay's status as one of the great weirdo geniuses of the 20th century".

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"Czukay, described by British musician David Sylvian as the man who "more or less invented the art of sampling", bridges multiple musical eras and hearkens back to a period of experimentalist creativity that's easy to romanticize. What is perhaps most compelling about the pieces in this collection is not just their diversity, but the way in which they demonstrate the combination of immense hard work evident in their composition, mediated by an irrepressible sense of fun. Music should be fun - and creative, experimental, and daring. When it is all of these things and possesses 'groove' to boot, it offers more than just the musical artifact of an era; it serves still today as an inspiration for musical futures. This box-set from Holger Czukay falls definitively into that inspiring and still-futuristic category".

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"If there's one common factor in the music that Czukay produced throughout his solo career, it's simply that it sweats joy. Love of sound, love of the space between sounds, delight in consonances and juxtapositions, minimal brush strokes that prompt maximal responses: this is the nature of Czukay's playground, and it's a wonderful place to tarry ... If you're in any way partial to brilliantly repurposed and globally inclusive found sounds, bracingly ambulant mixes and immaculately weighted performances, the whole thing constitutes one big, softly pulsing highlight".

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