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KEIKO
MATSUI
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Japanese belief holds that if you should take your children to their
first music lessons in the first June after their fifth birthday.
If you do this, they will continue studying for a long time. Keiko
loved her first piano lesson. Thus did Mrs. Doi, a teacher of traditional
Japanese dance, took her daughter Keiko Matsui at that auspicious
time. Keiko did study for a very long time. By the time she got
to Junior High, her favorite music was Rachmaninov, the movie soundtracks
of Nino Rota and Chick Corea. After several years of studying, she
became the Yamaha Music Foundation's selected recording artist when
she was seventeen years old. She composed her first major film score
that year. She also had jazz group called Cosmos and recorded four
albums. Now, Keiko tours the United States to support her latest
New Age album "Whisper from the Mirror" (Countdown/Unity). |
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ALBERTA
ADAMS
The undisputed, unrivaled, peerless Detroit Queen
of the Blues is Alberta Adams. Performing and recording with Johnnie
Bassett and the Blues Insurgents, she is the personification of
the Detroit Blues scene. Some may take it for granted that blues
collectors have several Adams records carefully spine-aligned one
after the other. Such is not exactly the case. Although she has
been performing and recording for the last 50 years, her solo debut
full-length release only just came out. Entitled "Say Baby Say:
Life's Trials and Tribulations according to Miss Alberta Adams,"
the over due historic recording is available from Cannonball Records
(1660 Lake Drive W., Chanhassen, MN 55317). Now in her '70's, she
still performs. Adams looks back on a life raising three children
and three stepchildren, four marriages, and decades of blues performance.
Such a life has its contrasts of ups and downs. This mixture reflects
in the album. It goes from upbeat jump blues and R&B ballads to
slow blues numbers. |
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| JULY
2000 REVIEWS >>>>>>>>>> |
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Blonde
Redhead
Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
Touch and Go Records,
POB 25520, Chicago, IL 60625
 Adventurous
art-rockers Blonde Redhead balance their angular, mathy experimentation
with the soft, airy vocals of Kazu Makino. The presence of her melodic,
musing, little girl voice marks connecting islands of accessibility
in the New York trio's post-punk, post-modern opus. (3.5) |
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Sante
Into Light
Sante Music,
POB 19796, Boulder, CO 80308-2796
http://www.santemusic.com
E-mail:santemusic@earthlink.net
 Sante
preceded each track here "with a meditation and a request for direction
from spirit." These multi-layered synth and MIDI guitar compositions
are the bright, airy constructions suggested by the title. Sometimes,
as in "The Awakening," there is a menacing undercurrent. It is as
if these serene, sunlight ride can pass over dark, dangerous waters.
Sante is a modern disciple of Tangerine Dream, Vangelis and Mike
Oldfield. (3) |
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Land
of the Loops
Puttering About a Small Land
Up Records,
POB 21328, Seattle WA, 98111
http://www.uprecords.com
 Alan
Sutherland, a.k.a. Land of the Loops is an oasis wit and basis melody
in that often musical desert; the sample Sahara. Four female guest
vocalists sing over this sound technician's percolating beats. These
ladies are; known associate Heather Lewis (Beat Happening), Japan's
Takako Minekawa, Jovita Carpenter (Lady Mallard, Volume All Star)
and newcomer DJ Trouble. Their voices appear as episodes in a cartoonishly
joyous album of Saturday-morning sugar-high beats and oddly affecting
sound bites. The secret behind the success of Sutherland's sample
choices is that the commonplace becomes surreal when taken out of
context. Thus the juxtaposition of rhythms from a kid's keyboard
and a snippet from a film noir becomes arresting, memorable and
successful. (4) |
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Lee
Hazlewood / Ann-Margret
The Cowboy and the Lady
Smells Like Records,
POB 6179, Hoboken NJ, 07030
 Country
baritone crooner Lee Hazlewood originally released this album in
1969 on his own LHI label. Now it resurfaces as part of Smells Like
Records' continuing Lee Hazlewood. Here he duets with actress Ann-Margret
(Tommy, Carnal Knowledge, The Flintstones). Part Peggy Lee and part
Marilyn Monroe, this sexy redhead had a career based on her looks,
basically in spite of the fact that she actually is a good singer.
On "The Cowboy and the Lady," her '60's teen idol pop veneer falls
into the boot-stomped dust next to Lee's delivery and under his
production. Here she provides with Hazlewood many excellent, sweet
and sad theme songs. These pieces are for that part of the Western
after the gunslinger meets the dancehall girl and before he goes
out for that dusk duel. Beside giving us the entire album, Smells
Like Records includes four extremely rare songs from the first two
Hazlewood/Margret singles on LHI. (4) |
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Outsight
brings to light non-mainstream music, film, books, art, ideas and
opinions.
Published, somewhere, monthly since July 1991. Feel free to re-print
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Current
reading list:
"Inside the CIA"
"Extranet Design and Implementation"
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