{"id":116417,"date":"2017-09-06T06:23:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T10:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=116417"},"modified":"2017-09-06T06:23:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T10:23:52","slug":"german-musician-holger-czukay-co-founder-of-can-dies-at-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/06\/german-musician-holger-czukay-co-founder-of-can-dies-at-79\/","title":{"rendered":"German musician Holger Czukay, co founder of Can, dies at 79"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_116420\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116420\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/21314415_1821593107873976_4158876230504034672_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116420\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/21314415_1821593107873976_4158876230504034672_n.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo: Can - Spoon Records\/Facebook)\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/21314415_1821593107873976_4158876230504034672_n.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/21314415_1821593107873976_4158876230504034672_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/21314415_1821593107873976_4158876230504034672_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/21314415_1821593107873976_4158876230504034672_n-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-116420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crzukay co-founded Can in 1968. The band mixed rock, jazz and classical influences with complex harmonies and electronic effects, and was a precursor of New Wave and other music. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/officialCan\/photos\/a.272427672790535.76695.209128552453781\/1821593107873976\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/officialCan\/\">Can &#8211; Spoon Records\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BERLIN &#8212; Holger Czukay, the co-founder and bassist of avant-garde band Can and a one-time student of composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, has been found dead. He was 79.<\/p>\n<p>News agency dpa reported that police in Euskirchen, near Cologne, said Wednesday Czukay&#8217;s body was found in an apartment in nearby Weilerswist. There was no immediate word on the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>Czukay co-founded Can in 1968. The band mixed rock, jazz and classical influences with complex harmonies and electronic effects, and was a precursor of New Wave and other music.<\/p>\n<p>He left Can in 1977 and embarked on a solo career, working with artists including Brian Eno, David Sylvian and the Eurythmics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN &#8212; Holger Czukay, the co-founder and bassist of avant-garde band Can and a one-time student of composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":116420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[23083,23082],"class_list":["post-116417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-can","tag-holger-czukay","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}