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- Date Released: June 15, 2007
- Genre: Electronic
- Label: Revisited Records / SPV
Is this man the most significant linking figure between rock and post-war experimental classical music?
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We Say...
The ever-present Daliesque twinkle in Holger Czukay's eye belies his heavyweight musical status. As a pupil of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Czukay is the most significant linking figure between rock and post-war experimental classical music. He went on to become a co-founder of Can, with whom he played discreet bass, although his role in the group was more subtle, shaping and directing their overall sound. Having left the group in the late '70s, in 1980 he went on to make Movies, an astonishing album in which he incorporates film, TV and shortwave radio excerpts into light-heartedly agile funk jams. Czukay anticipated later '80s tendencies towards sampling and world music and here, on “Cool in the Pool” and “Persian Love” (which uses radio recordings of an Iranian singer), he weaves in his sampled elements with effervescent wit and a lateral logic rarely evident in the work of his many imitators.
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They Say...
Holger Czukay's 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 short-wave 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.
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| 01. |  |
Cool in the pool |
5:03 |  |
| 02. | |
Oh Lord, give us more money |
13:12 | |
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Persian love |
6:26 | |
| 04. | |
Hollywood Symphony |
15:23 | |
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Cool in the pool (intrumental)(Bonustrack) |
4:58 | |
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Credits
- Irmin Schmidt - Piano // Irmin Schmidt - Piano (Grand) // Rebop Kwaku Baah - Organ // Holger Czukay - Synthesizer // Holger Czukay - Synthesizer // Holger Czukay - Bass // Holger Czukay - Bass // Holger Czukay - Guitar // Holger Czukay - Guitar // Holger Czukay - Keyboards // Holger Czukay - Keyboards // Holger Czukay - Vocals // Holger Czukay - Vocals // Holger Czukay - Producer // Holger Czukay - Producer // Holger Czukay - Engineer // Holger Czukay - Engineer // Holger Czukay - Main Performer // Holger Czukay - Main Performer // Holger Czukay - Editing // Holger Czukay - Editing // Holger Czukay - Mixing // Holger Czukay - Mixing // Holger Czukay - Cover Photo // Holger Czukay - Cover Photo // Holger Czukay - Shortwave Radio // Holger Czukay - Shortwave Radio // Michael Karoli - Guitar // Jaki Liebezeit - Percussion // Jaki Liebezeit - Drums // Thomas Ewerhard - Layout Design // Matthias Mineur - Liner Notes
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