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HIGH NOTES

CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Oct 17, 2002
Doug Martsch: "Now You Know"
When rock musicians "rediscover" the blues, it usually means one of two things: They feel a need to step back from their careers and look at one origin of their craft, or they've run out of ideas and need to give writer's block a swift kick in the pants.
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CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Oct 17, 2002
Tisziji Munoz: "Shaman-Bala"
"I've always known music as a way of spontaneously expressing free heart feeling," says guitarist and metaphysical theorist Tisziji Munoz in an e-mail from his home in upstate New York. "Playing music as a broken or wounded heart is a constant characteristic of my heart feeling, or Soul, as some call...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Oct 9, 2002
Manu Chao: "Radio Bemba Sound System"
Ask anyone who saw Manu Chao at Fuji Rock this year, and they'll tell you it was the best show of the festival. Volunteering to perform a pre-event set on the day they arrived, Chao and his band, Radio Bemba Sound System, blew the roof off the site's Red Marquee Stage with their Latin-tinged punk rock...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Oct 9, 2002
Steve Earle: "Jerusalem"
The fuss over "John Walker's Blues," Steve Earle's look-see into the mind of the American Taliban, barely survived the actual release of the song a few weeks ago. John Walker Lindh, who is portrayed by Earle as a naive but well-meaning young idealist, has since tearfully owned up to his mistakes and...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Oct 9, 2002
The Jimmy Smith Group
Before Jimmy Smith, the electric organ was almost exclusively a church instrument. That's not a bad thing, but in Smith's hands, the Hammond B-3 became an entire jazz band in itself. He brought the organ into clubs up and down the East Coast and helped turn it into a staple sound in American music. His...
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CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Oct 2, 2002
John Zorn: "Film Works XII"
John Zorn is not afraid of saturating the market with his film scores -- nor should he be; on each new release, the composer invites us into yet another exquisite little world. "Film Works XII" presents the scores to three documentary films and the music is as varied as the films themselves.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Oct 2, 2002
Marcus Printup: "The New Boogaloo"
The current jazz world has become suspicious of the trend of young players managing to get great record deals early -- some would say too early -- in their careers. At times it seems any youngster capable of keeping a beat and looking good in a cover photo gets recorded. At first glance, Marcus Printup...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Oct 2, 2002
Cowtown: "Ghost Train"
The fusion of jazz and country music may seem new, but what is now called western swing first took root more than 60 years ago. It was then that Bob Wills and his band, The Texas Playboys, fused cowboy twang with the big band sensibilities of the era, becoming one of the most popular groups in 1940s...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Oct 2, 2002
Sparta
When the hyper art-punk band At the Drive In announced an indefinite sabbatical last year, the members amicably split into two groups.
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CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 25, 2002
Henri Salvador
This year's Festival Halou, Tokyo's annual offering of French pops, features Henri Salvador, who, at 85, certainly has some stories to tell. Born in French Guiana in 1917, Salvador moved to Paris as a young man, where he played guitar with Django Reinhardt and developed his own vocal style. In the '50s,...
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CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 25, 2002
Howie B.
DJs tend to fall into two irreconcilable categories: those who garner glowing accolades from faux intellectuals who don't dance -- and those who pack dance floors with throbbing, heated bodies.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 25, 2002
Laurel Aitken
In 1962, Jamaica achieved independence from Great Britain and the cocky, joyous feel of ska soon sprang up to embody the exuberance of the tiny island. Sadly, Jamaica's early expectations for independence were soon soured by poverty, violence and corruption. Reflecting the mood of the island, ska, too,...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 25, 2002
The Queensland Orchestra
The Aborigines of northern Australia have likely been playing didgeridoos for more than 100,000 years. This Friday, when The Queensland Orchestra performs at the Festival of Asian Orchestras in Tokyo, it will be the haunting sound of this instrument that first reaches the ears of the audience. Behind...
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CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 18, 2002
Juan Jose Mosalini and Buenos Aires Tango Quintet
Tango has been variously described as a duel, a surrender, a labyrinth -- and the truest manifestation of the Argentine soul. It is so uninhibited and passionate that it was considered corrupting and sinful, which of course is why it's so wonderful. The image of a couple in skin-tight clothes twirling...
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CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 18, 2002
Cruise: "The Art of Being a Girl"
It's hard to think of Julee Cruise without conjuring up images of cursing madmen or midgets in red-curtained rooms. Ever since her ghostly lullabies hovered eerily over the movie "Blue Velvet" and the '80s bizarro hit TV series "Twin Peaks," people assumed that she was just another character from the...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 18, 2002
Azam Ali: "Portals of Grace"; Natacha Atlas: "Foretold in the Language of Dreams"
The most fascinating musical hybrids these days tend to come from artists who are themselves cultural crossbreeds. They don't plan these new sounds, they arise organically, from within.
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CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 4, 2002
Interpol: "Turn on the Bright Lights"
Back in high school, my art and drama classes were spent hanging out with the goth-rockers and burnouts who slouched over the corner table. As we gushed over bands like Bauhaus, Joy Division and Wire, we etched their names on our jeans with crappy, public-school calligraphy pens.
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CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 4, 2002
Brother Ah: "Sound Awareness"
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CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 4, 2002
reindeer section: "Son of Evil Reindeer"
The idea behind The Reindeer Section came up when a dozen or so leading lights of Glasgow's music scene attended a Lou Barlow concert and got very drunk together. As is often the case in such situations, the idea didn't seem half as interesting the next day.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Sep 4, 2002
John Hicks: "Music in the Key of Clark"
Tribute albums only work if the feeling's right. Songs can always be rearranged, styles copied and energy siphoned off past achievements, but if the feeling isn't right, it's just parasitic. John Hicks' new CD, "Music in the Key of Clark," dedicated to jazz piano great Sonny Clark, avoids this problem...
Japanese stripper bids to have her porn movies taken off internet
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Kishida defends planned rule to revoke foreigners' residency
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a meeting of the Lower House Judicial Affairs Committee on Wednesday.
Japan concerned over U.S. officials' remarks on atomic bombings
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham speaks to reporters during a news conference in Washington on Thursday.
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Who’s toughest on China? Biden’s tariff tactic ups ante as election looms.
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about new actions to protect American workers and businesses from China's "unfair" trade practices, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Tuesday.
Was Onosato's defeat of Terunofuji an era-defining bout?
Onosato (right) defeats Terunofuji at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on May 12. While nothing in sumo is guaranteed, it seems almost inevitable that Onosato is destined for the top of the sport's pyramid.
Ishin struggles to set itself apart from other parties
Nippon Ishin no Kai Secretary-General Fumitake Fujita (right) speaks beside Yui Kanazawa, the party's candidate in the Tokyo 15th district by-election on April 28. Nippon Ishin lost in this by-election as well as another in Nagasaki held on the same day.
In Japan, 68,000 people over 65 projected to die alone at home this year
As Japan grapples with its population's rapid aging, supporting people who live and age alone is looming larger on the policy agenda.

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