Memories of Kraut Rock A small “video musical” with a great soundtrack about Holger Chukai from the group Can, who agreed to prepare the young pianist Ino for the Mozart competition. He teaches her to incorporate her personality into her performance, to express inner landscapes through sounds. At first, Eno resists the lessons and plays formally, but then penetrates through the balcony into Chukai’s apartment, where he creates a composition based on the sermons of the Pope, and penetrates her, forgetting to return home. “Only a believer can have such a voice,” Chukai tells his girlfriend. Left alone in his apartment, Eno experiments with tools. There are classic Can songs. Eno destroys Chukai’s apartment, but ends with a joint improvisation on the theme of broken glass in the style of the Berlin school. The members of the unfriendly Can group Downbeats became police officers and at the instigation of the worried mother Eno pursue the main characters locked in the attic. With the beginning of the competition, phantasmagoria reaches unthinkable limits: Eno learned to play, Chukai escaped from prison. A war of sounds is between two heroes and the rest of the world. Chukai becomes something of a father, while she meets the break-dancer of her dreams. There is some kind of synthetic in the atmosphere of this film, which does not allow him to rise to the Decoder League, but it corresponds to the eccentric hypostasis of Holger Chukai and helps to better understand his later works presented here by him himself.
8 out of 10