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HIGH NOTES

Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Nov 28, 2001
Play Records Night
From its roots in Jamaica's production studios to London's "sound systems," dub has become as much a descriptive musical term as a genre. To be "dub" is to pay attention to silence as well as sound, to have a spaciousness (and often spaciness) absent from other electronic or club-derived music.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Nov 28, 2001
R.L. Burnside: 'Burnside on Burnside'
Those looking to get a feel for the sounds of a Mississippi juke joint on a Saturday night would be best advised to pick up the latest gem from the underrated R.L. Burnside: "Burnside on Burnside," a live disc recorded on a West Coast tour in January.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Nov 28, 2001
Gocoo
Trying to describe the sound of Gocoo, the 13-member taiko ensemble led by Kaoly Asano, I am driven to geological comparisons: the rumble of tectonic plates shifting; the rhythmic pulse of surf on rock; and pure, primal eruptions of magma. This is music you feel more than listen to.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Nov 21, 2001
Electraglide 2001
Electraglide attracts big names, and that's why it has quickly become Japan's most eagerly anticipated annual dance event. Last year's inaugural event boasted Underworld and Orbital. This time around, Fatboy Slim headlines the DJ stage and Aphex Twin the live stage.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Nov 21, 2001
Dagmar Krause
Dagmar Krause has the thin, consumptive look of a cabaret singer, as if she is about to expire at any moment from want of a man, money or the simple pleasures of a hot meal.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Nov 21, 2001
Tori Amos: 'Strange Little Girls'
Tori Amos, whose most famous song, "Me and a Gun," is an a cappella description of her own real-life rape at gunpoint, wanted to do an album of rock songs originally written and performed by men, so she asked male acquaintances for the names of songs that made an impression on them. Cover albums are...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Nov 21, 2001
The David Murray Quartet
David Murray has led a topsy-turvy career. Rather than starting out in acceptable, marketable music and evolving toward free jazz, he broke out in the 1970s playing the genre's wildest styles of avant-garde, then floated back toward a more palatable approach.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Nov 14, 2001
Mercury Rev: 'All Is Dream'
On Sept. 11, Mercury Rev released the presciently titled album "All Is Dream." It was perfect timing because, although Mercury Rev will never be fashionable, the terrorist attacks on the U.S. must have upped the sales of their albums significantly. Who in America wanted to listen to the abrasive Limp...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Nov 14, 2001
Dismemberment Plan: 'Change'
Travis Morrison sings as if words are pouring into his mouth faster than he can spit them out. On the first three albums from his band Dismemberment Plan, the lyrics shifted between self-deprecating irony and plain old self-deprecation. What Morrison was saying was honest and unsentimental, but there...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Nov 14, 2001
Jim O'Rourke: 'Insignificance'
Jim O'Rourke has been around the block. A seminal postclassical composer, he can boast more than just the occasional side project. Indeed, if you add together the number of his solo albums and his collaborations and guest recordings with other bands, his output goes into the triple digits. He has placed...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Nov 14, 2001
Tom Pierson: 'Left, Right'
Tom Pierson has played and recorded elegant piano jazz in Tokyo for the last 10 years. His most recent CD, "Left, Right," is a collection of originals, plus a handful of covers, that occupy a deeply lyrical and highly expressive territory.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Nov 7, 2001
MC Solaar: 'Cinquieme As (Fifth Ace)'
In order for something to be exotic, there must first be an accepted cultural standard. In the case of the music of MC Solaar (Claude M'Barali), a Senegalese musician who relocated to Paris in 1990 and has since become the best-selling Francophone rapper in the world, the standard is American hip-hop....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Nov 7, 2001
Empire State: 'Eternal Combustion'
If necessity is the mother of invention, then boredom is its long-lost uncle. Having grown bored with the present state of indie music, the experimentalist, postrock three-piece Empire State found inspiration by building their own instruments. Dr. Seuss-like contraptions such as "whirling xylo-cans"...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Nov 7, 2001
Cato Salsa Experience: 'A Good Tip for a Good Time'
Don't be fooled by the name. The only thing Cato Salsa Experience has to do with Latin American big-band dance music is that it makes you want to throw your jacket in the corner, take your partner by the hand and cut the rug until it's a tattered and torn smoking ruin.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Nov 7, 2001
Belly dancin' the night away
W hether at hip, ambient club events, in evening classes, at gyms and sports halls, or at Middle Eastern restaurants, belly-dancing is experiencing a revival in Tokyo. It is tempting to dismiss this as an oriental cliche: either a titillating amusement for bored suburban housewives, or an exotic divertissement...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Oct 31, 2001
Product Placement
Turntablism is the physical part of DJing, the act of slipping records on spindles and manipulating them in whatever configuration inspiration dictates. Some solo turntablists liken themselves to jugglers, which means their craft only has meaning in a live context. DJ Shadow is one of the ablest turntablists...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Oct 31, 2001
University Music Festivals
If you can avoid the drunk undergraduates and terrible yakisoba, the university festival season is an excellent time to see good bands for cheap. Musashino University consistently draws crowds to its Ekoda campus with cool, offbeat groups. It's worth going just for the venue: a Meiji Era concert hall...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Oct 31, 2001
Charles Lloyd: 'Hyperion With Higgins'
Charles Lloyd's 1966 release, "The Flowering," was one of the few jazz albums to find itself regularly tucked into living-room album stacks among the likes of Hendrix, Santana and the Dead. But, when the music industry shifted in the '70s to constricted market niches and less artist control, Lloyd tuned...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Oct 31, 2001
Pulp: 'We Love Life'
Surely Pulp vocalist Jarvis Cocker hasn't turned into a hippie? Note the title of the new album, "We Love Life." Note that it's produced by '60s maverick Scott Walker. And, above all, note that it's all about . . . nature. A Pulp album not about sex? Well, there's bits of sex in it, of course, but basically...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Oct 24, 2001
Bill Callahan: 'Rain on Lens'
Bill Callahan isn't known for his bright, cheery outlook on life. Nor is he known for making slick, glossy overtures with his musical vehicle, Smog. With "Rain on Lens," his latest release, Callahan remains true to form, delivering the stripped-down, somber rock that made him one of the founders of the...
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