Full Circle (Holger Czukay, Jah Wobble and Jaki Liebezeit album)

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Full Circle
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Studio album by Holger Czukay, Jah Wobble and Jaki Liebezeit
Released 1982
Recorded Inner Space Studio, Cologne, Germany
Genre Krautrock, dub
Length40:40
Label Virgin
Holger Czukay chronology
On the Way to the Peak of Normal
(1981)
Full Circle
(1982)
Snake Charmer
(1983)
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Full Circle is a collaborative album between musicians Holger Czukay, Jah Wobble and Jaki Liebezeit, released in 1982 through Virgin Records.

Holger Czukay German bass-guitarist and co-founder of "Can"

Holger Czukay was a German musician, probably best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can. Described as "successfully bridg[ing] the gap between pop and the avant-garde", Czukay was also notable for having created early important examples of ambient music, for having explored "world music" well before the term was coined, and for having been a pioneer of sampling.

Jah Wobble English bassist

John Joseph Wardle, known by the stage name Jah Wobble, is an English bass guitarist, singer, poet and composer. He became known to a wider audience as the original bass player in Public Image Ltd (PiL) in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but left the band after two albums. Following his departure from PiL, he went on to a successful solo career, continuing to the present. In 2009, he published his autobiography, Memoirs of a Geezer. In 2012, he reunited with fellow PiL guitarist Keith Levene for Metal Box In Dub and the album Yin & Yang. Since 2013 he has been one of the featured pundits on Sunday morning's The Virtual Jukebox segment of BBC Radio 5 Live's Up All Night with Dotun Adebayo.

Jaki Liebezeit German musician

Jaki Liebezeit was a German drummer, best known as a founding member of experimental rock band Can. He was called "one of the few drummers to convincingly meld the funky and the cerebral".

Contents

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."How Much Are They?" Czukay, Wobble 4:48
2."Where's the Money?"Czukay, Wobble5:02
3."Full Circle R.P.S. (No. 7)"Czukay, Liebezeit, Wobble10:58
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Mystery R.P.S. (No. 8)" Czukay, Liebezeit, Wobble 8:47
2."Trench Warfare"Czukay, Wobble6:45
3."Twilight World"Czukay, Wobble4:20

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References

  1. "Full Circle". Allmusic. Retrieved October 15, 2012.