Tributes paid after Can legend Damo Suzuki dies, aged 74
Tributes have been paid to Can icon Damo Suzuki, after it was introduced that the influential vocalist and musician had handed away on the age of 74.
The experimental artist died after a protracted battle with colon most cancers, having been recognized in 2014 when he was given a 10 per cent chance of survival.
“It’s with nice unhappiness that we now have to announce the passing of our great good friend Damo Suzuki, yesterday, Friday 9 February 2024,” Can’s Instagram account posted.
“His boundless artistic vitality has touched so many over the entire world, not simply with Can, but in addition together with his all continent spanning Community Tour. Damo’s form soul and cheeky smile might be ceaselessly missed.”
Paying tribute to previous members of the art-rock collective, they wrote: “He might be becoming a member of Michael, Jaki and Holger for a improbable jam!”
The message ended: “Numerous like to his household and youngsters. We’ll put up funeral preparations at a later date.”
The social media account for Energy, an acclaimed 2022 documentary about Suzuki wrote that he was “a life drive that might be missed by many”.
“Misplaced for phrases. Damo ceaselessly. Sending power, love and condolences to the household and family members.”
We’re devastated to announce that Damo Suzuki handed away on the ninth February.
A life drive that might be missed by many.
Misplaced for phrases.
Damo ceaselessly.
Sending power, love and condolences to the household and family members.#Energy #DamoSuzukisNetworkGod bless pic.twitter.com/Isb9D3BN6t
— ENERGY (@energythefilm) February 10, 2024
Born in Japan on January 16, 1950, Suzuki later spent his teenage years busking round Europe the place he developed his experimental vocal type. It was busking that led him to hitch Can when Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit discovered him taking part in exterior a Munich café. He performed with the band that night time and improvised a lot of the efficiency.
Attributable to his game-changing and genre-smashing strategy, Suzuki’s time with the band is named their artistic peak, significantly 1971’s ‘Tago Mago’ – thought to be top-of-the-line albums of all time. He left Can after the recording of their 1973 album ‘Future Days’ to marry his girlfriend and have become a Jehovah’s Witness.
In 1983, he returned to music, touring and recording as Damo Suzuki’s Community.
Famend for his improvisational type, Suzuki carried out into his ultimate years – in addition to collaborating with the likes of Mogwai, Bo Ningen, Black Midi and lots of extra.
Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite took to Instagram to pay tribute, writing: “Relaxation in peace Damo Suzuki. One of many biggest rock and roll singers of all time. When Barry [Burns, guitarist] and me performed with him it was one of many biggest experiences of my life.”
Bo Ningen thanked Suzuki for the “numerous recollections”, including: “Arigato for guiding us by way of.”
Tom Skinner, of The Smile and Sons Of Kemet, additionally stated that sharing the stage with Suzuki was “an unforgettable expertise” whereas hailing him as “an unimaginable human being”.
The Charlatans‘ Tim Burgess posted “thanks and farewell” in Japanese, whereas post-hardcore legends American Soccer wrote: “RIP Damo Suzuki. His music with CAN had an enormous affect on us, and seeing our pals in Defender again him up in 2003 on the Hearth Bowl in Chicago remains to be among the many biggest reveals I’ve ever seen.”
Geoff Barrow, of Portishead and Beak>, hailed Suzuki as “a real artistic genius”, and “fairly simply the Band with the most important affect on me”.
“It’s fairly straightforward to listen to their affect in lots of different bands additionally like Blur,Radiohead and lots of many others,” he continued. “Damo’s Vocals have been like none different, his melodies and lyrics got here from elsewhere in between blues and conventional folks and pure noise and rhythmic vitality.
“Clearly he might be missed like the remainder of the band who’ve handed away however what a legacy to depart by musically influencing so so many individuals.”
See extra tributes to Suzuki under:
Numerous recollections. Arigato for guiding us by way of. またね、ダモさん。 pic.twitter.com/kTUhutz8Fd
— BO NINGEN (@boningenuk) February 10, 2024
ありがとう、そして別れ Damo Suzuki さん pic.twitter.com/AS0ywS8Q8J
— Tim Burgess (@Tim_Burgess) February 10, 2024
RIP Damo Suzuki. His music with CAN had an enormous affect on us, and seeing our pals in Defender again him up in 2003 on the Hearth Bowl in Chicago remains to be among the many biggest reveals I’ve ever seen.
— American Soccer (@americfootball) February 10, 2024
RIP Damo Suzuki. Thanks for all of the recollections and improbable sounds between 2009 and 2019 together with this night time in 2018 with a really youthful @bmblackmidi pic.twitter.com/iICjm3lxCa
— Windmill Brixton (@WindmillBrixton) February 10, 2024
Damo Suzuki
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Grateful that I acquired to share the stage with him just a few years again. An unforgettable expertise. What an unimaginable human being. RIP pic.twitter.com/VtcvTS2tWZ— Tom Skinner (@TomSkinner__) February 10, 2024
A few of the solely “Asian illustration in music” I cared about as a child was listening to Can and having my thoughts blown, after which watching movies of them performing and seeing Damo Suzuki appear like the good dude within the room, freely traversing his completely different vocal deliveries. RIP. pic.twitter.com/SHpG5Lg4lj
— Joshua Minsoo Kim (@misterminsoo) February 10, 2024
R.I.P Damo Suzuki pic.twitter.com/FNSpu8IOWG
— Invada Data UK (@invadarecordsUK) February 10, 2024
Suzuki discovered additional fame when The Fall’s 1985 album ‘This Nation’s Saving Grace’ contained the track ‘I Am Damo Suzuki’ impressed by the singer’ whereas ’00s storage band The Mooney Suzuki additionally took their identify from the singer and Can’s earlier vocalist Malcolm Mooney.
‘Can Stay In Paris 1973’ is about for launch on February 23, within the first of the Can Stay sequence to function Suzuki on vocals.