Description

Holger Czukays first post-Can solo album finds the bass player exploring prog rock jams with varied instrumentation, song-oriented lyrics and media samples from film, television and short-wave.

It was the samples that put Czukay in the same category as David Byrne and Brian Eno: an art rocker exploring the early days concurrently with early hip hop pioneers (or alternately, a white man exploiting the culture of the third world, depending on who you read).

On Persian Love, Czukay backs up clips of an Iranian singer recorded off the shortwave with lilting guitar and keyboard riffs that sparkle like light.

The album is all pleasant, playful textures with little of the darkness that Can dallied with.