{"id":18456,"date":"2017-09-14T01:36:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T00:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=18456"},"modified":"2017-10-12T20:54:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T19:54:48","slug":"holgers-radio-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2017\/09\/14\/holgers-radio-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Holger&#8217;s Radio Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?feed=%2Ffeuilleton%2Fholgers-radio-pictures%2F\" height=\"400\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Turn the dials with your hand \/ Till you find the shortwave band<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Kraftwerk<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The sounds of the radio, especially the distant voices and atmospheric distortions of the shortwave band, were a continual presence in the work of the late Holger Czukay. The <em>Canaxis<\/em> piece on his first album outside Can (also known today as <em>Canaxis<\/em>) opens with a series of electronic bleeps reminiscent of (or maybe derived from) radio signals. In Czukay&#8217;s later TV appearances with Can he left the bass playing to Rosko Gee, preferring instead to stand at the side of the stage with a collection of radios and tape machines. On one of his first high-profile collaborations of the 1980s, David Sylvian&#8217;s <em>Words With The Shaman<\/em>, he&#8217;s credited solely with &#8220;radio&#8221;. The radio continued to provide source material for his subsequent collaborations and solo albums.<\/p>\n<p>What you have here is my own mix of some favourite Czukay compositions all of which favour radio signals. The title is derived from the two tracks taken from the <em>Full Circle<\/em> EP, a collaboration between Czukay, Jah Wobble and Jaki Liebezeit; <em>Full Circle<\/em> and <em>Mystery<\/em> are both labelled &#8220;RPS&#8221; or &#8220;Radio Picture Series&#8221;. Being numbered pieces this has always begged the question of where the other six in the series might be. Now the composer is gone we may never know.<\/p>\n<p>Tracks:<br \/>\nJah Wobble, Holger Czukay &amp; Jaki Liebezeit\u2014<em>Full Circle R.P.S. (No. 7)<\/em> (1981)<br \/>\nHolger Czukay\u2014<em>Music In The Air<\/em> (1987)<br \/>\nJah Wobble, Holger Czukay &amp; Jaki Liebezeit\u2014<em>Mystery R.P.S. (No. 8)<\/em> (1981)<br \/>\nHolger Czukay\u2014<em>Radio In An Hourglass<\/em> (1992)<br \/>\nHolger Czukay\u2014<em>Traum Mal Wieder<\/em> (1984)<br \/>\nHolger Czukay\u2014<em>Mirage<\/em> (1999)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turn the dials with your hand \/ Till you find the shortwave band Kraftwerk The sounds of the radio, especially the distant voices and atmospheric distortions of the shortwave band, were a continual presence in the work of the late Holger Czukay. The Canaxis piece on his first album outside Can (also known today as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2017\/09\/14\/holgers-radio-pictures\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Holger&#8217;s Radio Pictures&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,3,15],"tags":[2271,411,2276,3877,4541,122,9130],"class_list":["post-18456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronica","category-music","category-technology","tag-can-group","tag-david-sylvian","tag-holger-czukay","tag-jah-wobble","tag-jaki-liebezeit","tag-kraftwerk","tag-rosko-gee"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4NG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}