I can't believe it took this long to get ahold of Holger Czukay's Movies album! Released around the time Can was grinding to a halt, the album sounds as fresh as the band's early-'70s heyday, though with that faux-reggae lilt they got into in the latter part of the decade.Obviously, something was in the air in 1980, because Czukay was dealing in the same proto-sampling radio captures that Byrne/Eno were up to. Oh yeah, rap was getting born too. In this case, the music is wrapped around a Iranian radio snippet (that would be the Persian love, I presume). Miles away from the dark clouds above B&E's bush of ghosts, this tune cruises through some pleasantly soft dreamscapes. It's almost new age-y, which might be a turnoff if I weren't so damned charmed by it all. Hell, the whole record's pretty dynamite too.
Holger Czukay - Persian Love
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