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DVD
REVIEW ****
Ivan Kral and Amos Poe, Producing and Directing
Blank Generation / Dancing Barefoot
Music Video Distributors
http://www.musicvideodistributors.com
This double feature DVD starts with Blank Generation, the
1976 film from Amos Poe and Ivan Kral. The film is a collection
of 8mm B&W shot at CBGB's. The genesis of New York City's, and thus
America's, punk & New Wave scene is jerky super 8 images with studio
tracks for audio. The disparity between uneven visuals and crisp
audio is successful stylization in this engaging time capsule featuring
Blondie, The Patti Smith Group, Talking Heads, Wayne County, Johnny
Thunders & the Heartbreakers with Richard Hell, and Television without
Hell.
Dancing Barefoot continues to examine the beginnings and
growth of the New York Punk scene. This more specific recollection
is through the eyes of Ivan Kral, former guitarist and songwriter
in the Patti Smith Group. The in-depth look at the Patti Smith Group
features much live footage and interviews with Smith and the original
bandmates. Kral's entire journey from alien punk pioneer to discouraged
pop rocker includes interviews with Iggy Pop and John Waite. (4)
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"Sweet"
Claudette Harrell
Ain't Gonna Wash Your Dirty Clothes
B4 Reel Records
18557 Vaughn, Detroit, MI 48219
Blues singer Claudette Harrell's delivery is easy and natural on
this somewhat funky electric blues album. Claudette's ten original
tracks are fun treatments of classic blues themes like cheatin'
and attitude. Harrell has a talking-blues style with very traditional
roots and the arrangements have a fluid, '70's blues approach to
the guitars and simple, basic rhythms ala rural Delta blues. (3)
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Karma
Sutra
Prana
DivaNation Records
5602 N Ridge Ave., Chicago, IL 60660 http://www.KarmaSutraMusic.com
http://www.DivaNation.com
Karma Sutra's Prana is an easy-breathing, lush offering of
Persian trip-hop. Vocalist Mona Jethmalani's kaleidoscopic Qawwali
is psychedelic spiritualism, a sublime rendering of the infinite
as seductive as the temptations of a love bed co-reading of an East
Indian sex manual. Preston Klik's deep beats throb in Tantric time
with the sounds of the subcontinent, defining the borders of this
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Pointy
Teeth
Cinema-Tech
DivaNation Records
5602 N Ridge Ave., Chicago, IL 60660
http://www.PointyTeeth.com
http://www.DivaNation.com
Pointy Teeth is among the most pure forms of electronica to come
from the fertile imagination of creator Preston Klik. As with his
other projects (This Scarlet Life, Karma Sutra, etc.) this music
features alluring female vocals. This also includes sound bites
and dance-ready rhythms to an extent not usually found in his more
song-oriented works. However, the organic, protean nature of Klik's
work transcends the bathos of club music that is merely functional
to conjure a headspace mosaic for a weird and wonderful ride taken
either through headphones or on the dance floor. (4.5) |
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 Melissa
Walker
I Saw the Sky
Enja
http://www.enjarecords.com
Melissa Walker opens her third album with the Jerome Kern/Johnny
Mercer classic "I'm Old Fashioned." Indeed this new, young voice
in jazz delivers her vocals in an adept and traditional style. She
has a lyric comparable to Betty Carter and a skill in phrasing suggestive
of Ella Fitzgerald and an effortless delivery for the higher notes
that recalls Sarah Vaughn. Pianist Shedrick Mitchell supplies talented
keyboard work as brisk or subtle as Walker requires and contributes
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Outsight
brings to light non-mainstream music, film, books, art, ideas and
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Published, somewhere, monthly since July 1991. Feel free to re-print
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Current
reading list:
"The Psychology of Computer Programming" (Weinberg)
"New York is Now! The New Wave of Free Jazz" (Phil Freeman)
"A History of the Arab Peoples"
"Lost Empires" (J. B. Priestly)
"War and Peace" (Tolstoy)
"Small Change: A Life of Tom Waits" (Patrick Humphries)
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