[acid-jazz] Monday Michiru at PopMatters

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Date: Thu Dec 26 2002 - 23:08:29 CET

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    Monday Michiru at PopMatters

    http://www.popmatters.com/music/interviews/michiru-monday-021226.shtml

    an in-depth Interview Feature on Monday Michiru has been published at
    PopMatters, one of the best publications around--a Global Arts and
    Culture magazine. it might be the most extensive piece ever written on
    her. included are commentary from the likes of Thom Jurek (rolling
    stone and spin magazine contributor), the Angel (60 Channels), E. Taylor
    Atkins (Northern Illinois University, author of Blue Nippon), and Robin
    Eubanks (Oberlin Conservatory, professional jazz trombonist) among
    others. monday shares some humorous stories about her childhood,
    discusses racism in the jazz sphere, reveals of a dispute with her
    label, talks about her marriage and childhood,...

    it's fitting publication for a piece on Monday since they're one of the
    leading publications in cultural criticism and journalism, and cover
    much of groove based music in their reviews, columns, and features.

    a couple excerpts from the Monday Michiru feature are pasted below. the
    full article can be read at the front page of PopMatters:

    http://www.popmatters.com/

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    excerpts:

    ...Thom Jurek, Rolling Stone and Spin contributor, adduces a final
    assessment. With words to take to heart, he asserts, "As a singer,
    lyricist, and even as an arranger, she moves me like no one else
    currently does . . . a more poetic voice doesn't exist currently."

    ...As a premier model in the contemporary groove scene who has informed
    the soul dialect with the global accents of civic cosmopolitanism and
    worldly savoir faire and the jazz idiom with transgressive definitions
    on manner and tradition, she has revealed a mural of a muse who
    concertedly charters earthy soul and funk, classic jazz, and nu jazz
    hues in a swirl as colorfully cant as a Wassily Kandinsky canvas and
    concretely confident as a Ogiwara Morie construct.

    ...Monday is unduly generous with her time, having obliged in
    conversation for hours-and shines a textured personality: she reveals
    she has a quick temper; she explains some label execs in Japan consider
    her a bitch, because her Western tendencies conflict with their customs;
    she was an avid Law & Order viewer when the economics of time were in
    her favor; she hides her thumbs inside her clenched fist so to prevent
    her parents from death, a Japanese superstition; her first kiss came at
    fifteen and her first love showed at 20; and only reluctantly does she
    confess to purchasing the Alicia Keys' album.

    ...Having envisioned a future as a classical flautist, Monday's dreams
    later had to be reconsidered: " . . . Somewhere along the way I lost my
    drive and by the time the auditions were on, I had gotten into a car
    accident two weeks before and lost two of my lower teeth,
    which meant I couldn't practice during that time, and totally failed my
    auditions."

    http://www.popmatters.com/music/interviews/michiru-monday-021226.shtml

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