Holger Czukay – Gvoon: Brennung 1

In a time in which the market is being flooded with lazy krautrock reissues, Gvoon: Brennung 1 feels all the more special. The late Holger Czukay had studied under Karlheinz Stockhausen before writing music history with CAN, and it showed on his solo releases. This long-lost 32-minute-long piece was recorded in 1997 and is accompanied by a version realised by the duo DIE ANGEL together with Faust’s Zappi W. Diermaier. It’s a murky, muffled collage of droning sounds, claustrophobic to the max and yet—it’s Czukay after all—oddly groovy. Put on this the next time someone tries to sell you the umpteenth reissue of »Cluster II«.