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Damo Suzuki, who has died aged 74, was a musician best known for the three years he spent as vocalist with Can, leading lights in the movement that became known as Krautrock; his tenure coincided with the band’s heyday, and he sang – and spoke, muttered, intoned, chanted and shrieked – on their three best albums, Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi and Future Days.
It is tempting to paint Damo Suzuki, the singer for legendary krautrock band Can, as some sort of musical shaman. And frankly, the video footage that exists of him makes it easy to do so.
The singer embodied the experimental German band’s adventurous spirit throughout his career
The Japanese musician performed and recorded with the German krautrock band for a short but important period in the early 1970s
Damo Suzuki, the Japanese-born singer for legendary German experimental group Can, has died. He was 74.