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HIGH NOTES

Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Aug 28, 2002
Guided by Voices: "Universal Truths and Cycles"
Hype moves in mysterious ways. Take the band Guided by Voices, for example. Although frothy fanatics such as myself have been touting GBV as the best rock 'n' roll band on the planet for years, our claims were often met with little more than a shrug. Therefore, please ignore the smug look on my face...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Aug 28, 2002
Spoon: "Kill the Moonlight"
Since forming in the early '90s, the Austin, Texas, band Spoon has continually sharpened its sound to such a fine edge that its new album, "Kill the Moonlight," could conceivably be performed live with only singer-songwriter Britt Daniels on vocals, drummer Jim Eno on tambourine and a tape of the simple...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Aug 28, 2002
Amadou and Mariam: "Amadou and Mariam"
This album smokes. Amadou and Mariam play a rollicking, good-natured blend of bluesy R&B and Malian dance band music. Amadou sings and plays a seamless rhythm guitar and the occasional crackling lead, while Mariam sings in a voice of sweet fragility.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Aug 28, 2002
David Grisman Quintet: "Dawgnation"
Don't let the corny cover photos and the too-clever song titles playing on the word "dawg" throw you off. Virtuoso mandolin player David Grisman's latest, "Dawgnation," is made up of wonderful acoustic music that satisfies with a rambling, walking beat, freshness and honesty.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Aug 14, 2002
Linda Thompson: "Fashionably Late"
In 1972, shortly after she married former Fairport Convention guitarist Richard Thompson and became pregnant, the sometime folk and commercial jingle singer Linda Peters began suffering from a rare psychological disorder called hysterical dysphonia. "You open your mouth and nothing comes out," is how...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Aug 14, 2002
Maharaja: "Maharaja"
Maharaja is a raucous troupe of singers, dancers and musicians -- men, women and a drag queen -- who hail from Rajasthan, an Indian state that abuts Pakistan. Rajasthan is dominated by the still, sandy might of the Thar Desert, and if you happened to find yourself shuffling through it, you would likely...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Aug 14, 2002
The Matthew Herbert Big Band
The last time Matthew Herbert performed in Tokyo, among his instruments were a bag of Big Macs, a pair of Gap jeans and a television set.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Aug 14, 2002
The Flaming Lips': "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots"
Meet Yoshimi. She's a black belt in karate. She keeps in shape and takes her vitamins, because, well, it gets tough fighting giant androids bent on world domination.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Aug 7, 2002
Kevin Mahogany: Pride and Joy
Kevin Mahogany's stunning new CD, "Pride and Joy," puts his rich baritone to work on a brand-new source of tunes -- Motown. Even though other jazz vocalists, such as Cassandra Wilson, have reworked everything from Son House to The Monkees into fresh jazz hybrids, why Motown -- with its incredibly well-crafted,...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Aug 7, 2002
Sonic Youth: Murray Street
Jim O'Rourke is on a roll. First, post-rock's poster child released his best solo effort, "Insignificance," late last year, and now he's on two of the best albums of 2002. As well as having produced Wilco's breakthrough album, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot," O'Rourke has become producer for -- and a member of...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Aug 7, 2002
Scientist at Work
The music of trumpeter Frank London could be characterized as a product of "Radical Jewish Culture," a term coined by John Zorn that refers to post-Holocaust generations of Jews discovering on their own terms the meaning of their faith. London has spent the past couple of decades at the ancient intersections...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Aug 7, 2002
The Streets: Original Pirate Material
Following hard on the heels of drum 'n' bass, U.K. garage (or two-beat) was already the hippest thing in urban Britain by the time the rest of the world had even heard of it. Critics called it the purest form of dance music since '70s disco, while practitioners made much of its up-from-the-streets credibility,...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jul 31, 2002
Charanga Habanera
It says alot that Charanga Habanera were voted most popular band in Cuba in 1999; there, music is more important than even politics. The group's salsa is not the cheek-to-cheek, swing-around kind familiar to many dancers and listeners, but a rougher, more frenetic style called timba.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jul 31, 2002
Eddie Palmieri: "La Perfect II"
Once upon a time, in a dance hall called the Palladium, in a city called New York, jazz bands vied with each other in all-night contests to see who could play the hottest, fastest and wildest dance music possible. Among those bands, Eddie Palmieri's La Perfecta was one of the most popular. But, with...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jul 31, 2002
Arto Lindsay
Arto Lindsay's age (49) and bespectacled appearance make him an unlikely sex god, but few musicians fuse carnality and spirituality with such seamless grace. "All my visions crowd down to one bead of sweat," he sings on his new album, "Invoke." Lindsay's voice is soft, knowing, sensuous; attributes that...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jul 31, 2002
Tabla Beat Science: "Live in San Francisco"
On Aug. 12, 2001, Tabla Beat Science, a multinational collective of forward-thinking musicians founded by the tabla player Zakir Hussein and the bass player and producer Bill Laswell, played a free show in the Stern Grove section of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. For many of the 12,000 people who...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jul 24, 2002
The Parkinsons: 'A Long Way to Nowhere'
A bunch of drug-addled punk rockers kick down your front door, charge in flailing guitars above their heads, smash everything in sight and then run out onto the balcony screaming their heads off before jumping to their deaths eight floors below.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jul 24, 2002
Warren Zevon: 'My Ride's Here'
Despite having predicted his own irrelevance as far back as 1976 on the song "Desperados Under the Eaves," Warren Zevon has outlasted his more illustrious L.A. pals The Eagles and mentor Jackson Browne even if his awkward song stylings and unpretty baritone haven't changed a bit. And while Zevon himself...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jul 10, 2002
Seigen Ono: 'So Peaceful, Simple and Strong'
Last month, when Marc Ribot was playing Aoyama Cay, one of Seigen Ono's people proffered an advance copy of "So Peaceful, Simple and Strong" to him backstage, saying, "It's good, Marc. It's really good." Ribot, heavy-lidded with jet lag and fatigue from touring Europe, grimaced and dropped the disc onto...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jul 10, 2002
Skist: 'Ellipsis'
If the purpose of abstraction is to get as far away from representative forms as possible, then the ultimate abstraction is something that's totally unrecognizable as anything. In the 1950s, Abstract Impressionists went to such lengths to avoid even suggesting the use of paint that judgment of their...
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