Michael karoli becomes friends with his guitar teacher Holger Czukay whilst at school in Switzerland in 1966.



1967-1968: While reading law, plays guitar & bass guitar in various Jazz & dance bands in Germany and Switzerland. Studies of the relation of musical to planetary rhythms, researches into effects of sound/music on human perception and body feeling.



1968-1978: Karoli joins Can; development of Pictorial Playing & Composition Concept (Tago Mago onwards), after getting to know the music of German composer Michael von Biel and studying with him.



1978/1979: sets up his own Outer Space Recording Studio in a former olive oil mill in the French Maritime Alps. learns to work and service a recording studio and develops the atmospheric "Microsonic" recording technique (as manifest on Deluge).



1978: Freelancing drummer in recording studios. Working for numerous international artists.



1981-1984: composing, recording & producing the album Deluge with English singer/artist Polly Eltes.



1984: concerts with Holger Czukay, Jaki Liebezeit, Jah Wobble in Cologne, and Rockpalast with Czukay & Liebezeit in Berlin.



1981-1986: Karoli studies African rhythm and dance with African drummer and dancer Seni Camara. Completes Pictorial Playing and Composition Concept.



1985: records with Le General Dady Mimbo. Various gigs as sound-mixer. Concert with Czukay, Liebezeit, Sheldon Ancel in Frankfurt, records album RADIO WAVE SURFER (Holger Czukay) with same setup.



1986-1988: records & produces CAN album Rite Time with Holger Czukay.



1987: records album Charlatan by Belgian singer Arno (ex-Tc-Matic) with Holger Czukay.



1992: records Last Night Sleep (Can) and other pieces of film-music for Until The End Of The World by Wim Wenders.



1993: records and co-produces Belgian group "Belgian Associality".



1977-1995: Plays guitar and bass on all Solo albums, film & theatre music by Irmin Schmidt: Soundtracks-Anthology (1978 - 1993) . Musk At Dusk (1987). Impossible Holidays (1991).Gormenghast (2000)

And guitars on Holger Czukay`s Movies. Flux & Mutability. Radio Wave Surfer. Moving Pictures



1997: concerts in Japan with Damo Suzuki, Mani Neumeier, Matthias Keul und Mandjao.



1998: concerts in USA with Damo Suzuki and his band.



1999 - 2000: Can-Solo-Projects concerts with his group Sofortkontakt in Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Frankfurt, Osnabrück, Dublin, Crossing Border Festival Den Haag, London, and Amiens.



2001: Concerts with Suicide, James Chance, Hvratsky, Lary 7 and Malcolm Mooney at "The Cooler" in New York.



17th of November 2001, after a long battle with cancer Michael Karoli dies in Essen, Germany.