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Mar 29, 2018Rewardingly, Cinema buries its snout deep into the trough to root out the goods.
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MagnetApr 17, 2018Cinema finds Czukay ins subtle freeform space-jazz jam mode without ever being tasteless or proggy. [No. 150, p.51]
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Classic Rock MagazineJun 8, 2018Although his french horn resounds like a signature motif throughout his work, Czukay's genius was as a discreet creator of space, in which ideas, energies, colours and found sounds could flow freely. [May 2018, p.98]
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Apr 17, 2018This box-set from Holger Czukay falls definitively into that inspiring and still-futuristic category.
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The WireApr 5, 2018This box is not an artefact but an act, a decisive statement of Czukay’s immutable id bereft of egoistic nostalgia or sentiment. ... Cinema is a beautifully appointed and stylish tribute to a sampladelic pioneer who changed the sound of popular music forever. [Apr 2018, p.72]
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Mar 29, 2018Cinema 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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Apr 24, 2018This a sensitively curated survey of Czukay’s many-splendoured oeuvre, and it makes a good case for Czukay as the OG granddaddy of modern German music.
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Q MagazineApr 2, 2018This first rate box-set shines a light on the bass magus's idiosyncratic solo output. [May 2018, p.117]
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Mar 29, 2018This beautiful collection is a fitting tribute.
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Mar 29, 2018What emerges from Cinema is an image of a musician who remained resistant to such categorisations to the end: experimental, curious and explorative, Czukay clearly didn't want to master just one style of music. He preferred to have a go at them all. Even when the results are messy (some of the light-hearted late 80's material hasn't dated well), Cinema proves the wisdom of this open-eared approach.