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| SEPTEMBER
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Raquel
Bitton
Raquel Bitton sings Edith Piaf
Omtown/Higher Octave Music
 American
vocalist Raquel Bitton is foremost among French music interpreters,
especially the Edith Piaf songbook. She sings with controlled passion
resulting in music eloquence, even elegance. She finishes her lines
with the characteristic Piaf vibrator quaver. No attempt is made
here to update the Piaf songbook with contemporary techniques. A
small, acoustic, gypsy ensemble or silk-stringed orchestra backs
her as she takes the Little Sparrow flight path with grace and style.
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Laika
Good Looking Blues
Beggars Banquet/Too Pure
 Laika
is a smart, hip project that mixes slick, electronic beats with
atmospheric guitars. Expect unique instrumentation on every track.
The urgent, eerie tale of "Black Cat Bone" is haunted with the voodoo
of squealing horns. Rhodes lends a touch of organ jazz to the "Moccasin."
Throughout we hear tunrtablism that adds without taking away and
rich, ethnic percussion. This stacks nicely against the albums you
love by MC 900 Ft. Jesus, Stereolab and Tricky. (4.5) |
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Laura
Love
Fourteen Days
Zoe/Rounder
http://www.rounder.com
info@rounder.com
 A
true artist of today, Love wraps her hooks and observations in a
hip mix of all available genres. Her folk-rock is funky. Her slightly
R&B vocals feature world percussion. Sometimes the world of instrumentation
offers straight-up Appalachian double-stop fiddling and mandolin
or Mariachi band trumpets. While this envelop-pushing artists offers
excellent originals, check out the hip singer-songwriter's take
on Laura Nyro's "Stoned Soul Picnic." "Fourteen Days" is a truly
uplifting album, socially aware and finely musical. (4) |
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Karen
Nunis Blackstone
Give me Sanity
Musik International/Another Songbird Sound Egg
5669 Elder Road, Pleasantville OH, 43148
Daddypeet@hotmail.com
 Karen
Nunis Blackstone is a compelling vocalist. Her emotional range runs
the spectrum from a warm, intimate blues ("Abysmal Blues") to an
authoritative declaration on "Frickin' Truths." Generally, this
woman sings out. Out to the world and at her audience. Strong and
clarion, she sings in front of a rich array of instrumentation.
This album features a few acoustic and electric guitars with ethnic
percussion. Extra color is added with the soft, pastoral sounds
of Malaysian and Chinese bamboo flutes. (4) |
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Kim
Gordon / Ikue Mori / DJ Olive
SYR 5
SYR
POB 6179, Hoboken, NJ 07030
 Kim
Gordon's first instrument with Sonic Youth was the guitar. Taking
an aside from SY and her other project, Free Kitten, Gordon picks
up that instrument again. This is a new trio lineup. On drums is
Ikue Mori. She was part of the legendary No Wave group DNA. She
throws into the mix bizarre sampling and sound effects along with
the third member, DJ Olive (WE). It was Olive that coined the term
"illbient" and approaches electronica with a post-turntablism philosophy
that elevates the art above mere beat music. These improvisational
pieces are broad-stroked canvases using noise as a palette. As DNA
preceded Sonic Youth and DJ Olive looks to the future of the art
of noise, this represents a cross-section of New York non-music
music. (3.5) |
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Sunday
Munich
Vinculum
Precipice
POB 190522, Miami Beach, FL 33119
precipice@mindspring.com
Reviewers of Sunday Munich's first album brought up Portishead and
Cranes in comparison. What we have here is industrial motifs slowed
down and deliberate until the approach primitive Blues styles. Big,
rough, shaggy beats march shuffling through the entrancing, simple,
unornamented vocals of Sarah Hubbard. Her cohort, Avis, contributes
the drum programming and diabolical cello interludes. A feature
track is there cover of Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here." What
makes Sunday Munich compelling is the juxtaposition of the stark
and the intimate, the classical and the apocalyptic. (3.5) |
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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:
"Lady of Fatima" (Walsh)
"What Will Be" (Michael Dertouzos)
"The Aleph and Other Stories" (Luis Borges)
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