Damo Suzuki

The longtime lead vocalist for Krautrock pioneers Can, Kenji “Damo” Suzuki was created in Japan on January 16, 1950. An expatriate road poet influenced by Jack port Kerouac’s On the highway, he spent the greater area of the past due 1960s wandering through European countries, even though busking outside a cafe in Munich in-may of 1970 was found out by Can users Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit; asked to displace the group’s previous frontman Malcolm Mooney, Suzuki became a member of them onstage that extremely night, producing his documented debut afterwards that same calendar year over the LP Soundtracks. With Suzuki within the lineup, Can created its most long lasting and innovative function, including traditional LPs like 1971’s Tago Mago, 1972’s Ege Bamayasi and 1973’s Future Times; nevertheless, upon completing focus on the last mentioned, he still left the music group to become Jehovah’s See. Absent from music for ten years, in 1983 Suzuki started turning up unannounced to execute at shows with the music group Dunkelziffer, eventually signing up for the group full-time and documenting a set of LPs; in 1986, he produced the Damo Suzuki Music group with fellow Can alum Liebezeit on drums, Dominik von Senger on electric guitar, and Matthias Keul on keyboards. Four years afterwards the group mutated to be Damo Suzuki and Close friends, its loose-knit lineup playing around the Cologne region on a every week basis; in 1998, he founded the Damo’s Network label, issuing some live recordings including V.E.R.N.We.S.S.A.G.E., Seattle as well as the seven-CD box established P.R.O.M.We.S.E..