'My home is everywhere. I am a nomad of the 21st century; my address is my e-mail address," writes Damo Suzuki in English via, naturally enough, e-mail.
Suzuki, now in his 50s, has been traveling for most of his life. He left his native Japan as a teenager and busked around Europe until a fateful meeting with Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit from the German progressive rock band Can. After they saw him doing an impromptu live performance outside a cafe in Munich in 1970, and asked him to sing on stage with them the same evening, he was invited to join the band.
His time with Can marked a period of intense creativity within the group that resulted in the highly regarded albums "Tago Mago," "Ege Bamyasi" and "Future Days." He left them and became a Jehovah's Witness in 1973, only to re-emerge as a member of the experimental band Dunkelziffer in 1984.