Jan 27, 2013 Czukay's next official solo release was 1982's On the Way to the Peak of Normal, another collaboration with Wobble assembled from sessions with the Dusseldorf-based band SYPH. 1984's Der Osten Ist Rot and 1987's Rome Remains Rome (featuring the controversial 'Blessed Easter,' which contained a sample of Pope John Paul II) followed, although.
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Czukay was born in Gdansk on March 24, 1938. After falling in love with music at a young age, he spent his formative years studying to be a composer and conductor, but his ideas were frequently too radical for mainstream tastes; after being disqualified from one jazz festival for his 'unclassifiable music,' he was later expelled from Berlin's Music Academy for similar artistic insolence.
Under the tutelage of avant-garde composer, Czukay continued to refine his ideas, and soon became a teacher himself; through student Michael Karoli, he gained his first exposure to performers like,. After 1976's Flow Motion, disbanded, and three years later Czukay issued his debut solo effort, Movies, a marked refinement of his short-wave sonic collage techniques. In addition to critical raves, the record won considerable interest throughout the musical community, and Czukay subsequently began work on a number of outside projects: in addition to playing on ' 1981 debut, In the Garden, he teamed with and bassist for the LP Full Circle and the club hit 'How Much Are They.' Through, Czukay also met the Japanese singer, and along with and producer Conny Plank, they recorded the 1982 album Phew. Czukay's next official solo release was 1982's On the Way to the Peak of Normal, another collaboration with assembled from sessions with the Dusseldorf-based band, and was followed by 1984's Der Osten Ist Rot and 1987's Rome Remains Rome (featuring the controversial 'Blessed Easter,' which contained a sample of Pope John Paul II).
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However, Czukay spent the majority of the mid-decade involved in a variety of production work. In 1988 he teamed with for the lovely Plight and Premonition; after the duo reunited the following year for Flux + Mutability, Czukay re-formed to record a new studio LP, Rite Time. Apart from the 1991 solo effort Radio Wave Surfer and 1993's Moving Pictures, Czukay spent much of the '90s removed from performing, focusing instead on production work before releasing Good Morning Story (his first solo album in six years) in 1999.
La Luna, featuring Czukay's wife, vocalist U-She, followed in 2000, and in 2003 Czukay again collaborated with U-She to release The New Millennium. Czukay was devastated by U-She's death in July 2017.
He died in September of that year at age 79; his body was discovered in his Weilerswist, Germany apartment, a living space that had previously served as 's Inner Space Studio. Jason Ankeny, Rovi Read More.
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