Damo Suzuki talks Instant Composing and Spiritual Music | Red Bull Music Academy
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Krautrock is a broad, catchall genre that encompasses the many permutations of experimental rock music created by German bands in the ’70s. But one of krautrock’s greatest ironies is that the lead singer for one of the genre’s leading bands was born in Japan.
Damo Suzuki discussed his philosophy on what he calls “instant composing,” the importance of spirituality in making music and his Never Ending Tour in his RBMA Berlin 2018 lecture.
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Vocalist and musician Damo Suzuki left home in his late teens and began busking around Europe. During one streetside performances, he attracted the attention of Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit, the bassist and drummer for the band Can. Suzuki became the lead vocalist for Can from 1970 to 1973, writing and singing on the band’s most enduring albums, including Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi, and Future Days.
Praised for their fusion of psychedelic rock, funk, and avant-garde noise, as well as Suzuki’s freeform, multilingual, and often improvisational lyrics, these albums went on to influence members of bands like the Sex Pistols, Jesus & Mary Chain and Radiohead. Though Suzuki stopped making music altogether for several years, he returned in 1983 to front Damo Suzuki’s Network, under which he travels the world to improvise and record with local bands. His 2018 album with German experimental band Jelly Planet explores the limits of krautrock while affirming his status as a genre legend.
TOPICS:
16:27 - What is Instant Composing?
24:35 - Embracing the unknown and quieting the ego
37:37 - The story of Damo Suzuki’s Network
40:33 - Battling colon cancer and Iraq through music
48:48 - Eliminating self-consciousness
54:44 - The importance of spirituality
MUSIC:
22:39 - Clip from Neverending documentary
45:09 - Damo Suzuki & Killer-Bong - “Live at Chikyuya”
59:12 - Damo Suzuki & Jelly Planet - “Wildschweinbraten”
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RIP Damo. Thanks for taking a chance on a kid like me back in the day. Performing with you those two times, especially when I was so young, is an experience I will forever cherish. You and your music influenced my life in so many ways, you were one of the kindest, sweetest people I ever met and I'll miss you dearly.
He was a sweet guy
Found him from his songs with Can. Such a unique voice.
R.I.P. Damo. We love you
met Damo in Thailand in about 2000 in a cozy bar with a diverse music collection. I had no idea of his fame/reputation. Just an unpretentious, quirky, friendly guy that I liked to hang out with and talk about life, adventure, art, etc.. Months later, he very generously sent me some of his CDs as a gift, which I enjoyed, something different for my already pretty eclectic collection. Lost touch with him after a few years as my life got complicated and absorbed more of my attention. Being free but (human)-connected, following his instincts and curiosity certainly seemed to me at the time to be central to his values. I think we both tried to steer clear of political discussions -- probably we both recognized it as laden with baggage and expectations too cumbersome for us to have more of a "free" communication.
Met him in Hamburg once. The same impression. Great soul!
Hero! Thanks Damo, I'll never understand what the hell it was you sang with Can but it was exactly right and I will keep loving it until I keel over too. RIP.
RIP Legend, thank you for the music ❤
This guy is a legend of Krautrock
More like legend of non-conventional music.
@@andjelkozlotvor More like legend of music
@@pazuzu1 For sure, bro, but tell that to some average fan of some conventional artist, like Beyonce. 90% of those fans (i'm guessing) never heard about Damo but 99% of Damo fans (probably 100%, i'm guessing again) heard about Beyonce. That's make him a legend of non-conventional music.
He REALLY doesn't like talking about Can, so I can see his restrained frustration. (I know him, so I'm not assuming, by the way).
I feel for him and it's kind of hard to see but interesting, of course.
;-)
A good chap.
NOWtheband is there a reason he doesn’t like to talk about can?
@@Creaturefiendyo After doing some digging around, I'm thinking the reason is that Can was such a short part of his life, from 1970-1974, whereas he's been touring and making music from 1984 till now. So maybe he just wants people to talk more about the music he's making now.
Funny. That is always the case. I know someone who was so highly influenced by CAN and the same will be said about his projects that the youth only cares about.
@@johnzuras6378 - I wouldn't say "always" the case. I know some older musicians who enjoy discussing their past creativity. Damo is the only artist I've spent time with who doesn't like discussing his past.
:-)
@@Creaturefiendyo - He's never allowed me to dwell long enough on the subject to find out. Besides, I learned it was off-limits long ago, ha ha!
Daniel Ellis may have a good point, though.
Personally I think it may also involve some interpersonal band politics or relationship issue that none of us know about because he seems slightly TOO vehement about not discussing it, as if something went on behind closed doors involving just him and other Can members.
The man knows how to put an audience in a trance. Just let him rap without the questioning.
I thought it was interesting to hear him speak for once.
Legend🎙️
After listening to this I am embracing instant composing. I sometimes have songs okay in my head, or when I have a guitar or keyboard I'll just play through something, and sometimes I feel like that wouldn't count in some way, but now I feel like recording and sharing that stuff is as valid as composing something overtime.
I wish he would cover that Fall song...
Same. Get some old Cologne/Stockhausen footage in that video.
It’s a bit ironic him doing all this in front of a giant Red Bull logo. While I’m sure he doesn’t care about the corporate sponsorship, it’s pretty funny to me they put a can of Red Bull next to him as if he’ll drink it
1:04:36 his accent saying this word (BS) is so cool
Yes!! Great!! now we need Klaus Schulze, Malcolm Mooney Karl Bartos, Wolfgang Flür, Peter Baumann, Chris Franke...
Add Michael Rother, Irmin Schmidt, and Hans-Joachim Roedelius to that list too. :)
Except Schmidt, Rother, and Cluster had their own interview in red bull music academy,...i still remenber the disrespectful interviewer with Cluster,...almost laughing at their music sometimes,...very sad,...
Really? That's shocking.
search for it and you'll see...Cheers from Barcelona!!
Tracing Spaces podcast has interviews with those guys and some badass gals too,
RIP Damo, Thanks for the very great Music!!!
I watched his videos sober and ended up high as a kite just by watching them.
A legend!!!!
Some really good insight here. Damo speaks with great wisdom and simplicity.
Rest in Power, please!
1:06:11 - "now doesn't exist" ---- WHAT?!
We beg to differ, sir!
(and he knows it's true, too. He's spent enough time with us, ha ha!)
;-)
It is true though.
@@devinthierault - But we do exist! We've been around since 1998! (and he's known us since 2003, so he's a fibber, ha ha!)
;-)
Rest in peace ♥️
I love his Krautanese accent.
legend
still love it!!
1:18:44 is that Deradoorian?
感谢！
nice
20:00
Make your kids watch this.
😢😢😢😢😢
Damo seems to improvise both his music and his responses. This interviewer is really struggling.
She had one thing to do. Introduce him correctly
Unfortunately it is really hard to follow him :(
It's fascinating. Turn on the subtitles
This one is, and it is 8 minutes czcams.com/video/EzJhTprd8VE/video.html
his mind is completely free and seperate from this world and thats what makes him great
terrible interviewer
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Say what you like about the past ,Damo, and I agree that past is past, but Can were my epiphany when I was 16, in 1973. Stuff like that stays with you. Jamie Briton
Damo Suzuki hasn’t changed at all from the time when we shared the stage three decades ago somewhere in Germany. He’s no idea what he’s talking about. His self expression is so poor not just because of his poor English but because of his poor presentation of himself. Ridiculous to say that he doesn’t want to share things from the past with younger people in the audience due to the age difference. He’s not representing or speaking of the Japanese musicians I know and worked with. Just a bla bla talker. He was so lucky to join CAN at that time cause he was such a Dilettant. In one thing I agree with him: yes, you were not a cool singer or musician in Can. His musical contribution wasn’t as great as some people believe. He reminds me of Yoko Ohno. Without John she couldn’t have performed or recorded with anybody. Damo, wake up and become an adult! I’m SADATO. Do you remember me?
are you schizophrenic wtf dude
@@rankus Sorry to hurt your feelings. Wasn't my intention. Just that you know how I came up with my comments about Damo: 1. I lived in Japan from 1974 to 2008. And I know the Japanese, Japan (music) culture and language very well. 2. I made a name there as a professional musician and worked with many respected jazz, punk, rock, noise and world musicians who I have a lot of respect for. 3. Japan is my 3rd home country.
By saying so, I don't like when I hear from Japanese (musicians) outside of Japan representing themselves or their country in a way which is not true or authentic. If you don't agree with me, that's all right but I'm not schizophrenic. (Besides, I would love to be on a panel discussion with Damo and comment to his comments in person and in public.). In solidarity and music.
@@musiciansformusicians4045 It doesn't take a genius to figure out that Damo isn't exactly a virtuoso singer or an excellent speaker (he's even expressed it himself). That in no way detracts from the genius or creative prowess of this individual who was never afraid to venture to honestly express his art, even if he had to give up fame to continue doing what he loved. From the content of your comment it appears that you are a frustrated clown who cannot cope with the fact that you are neither as creative and charismatic as Damo and thus as popular as him.
@@musiciansformusicians4045 "He was so lucky to join CAN at that time." (yeah, what's your point?)
"He reminds me of Yoko Ohno. " (Stupid comparisson)
"(...) representing themselves or their country in a way which is not true or authentic" (Oh, and then you procede to talk about how yourself as a Japanese lover)
Keep snobbing you sad human...
Someone has to point out that the king is naked. I think in this case the king knows he's naked, but everyone insists in telling how beautiful his clothes are.