On the Australian side of things, local funk outfit SWOOP have a new CD =
on the way. If you like high energy funk, SWOOP's last effort was =
called "Thriller" on Freakzone records.
Check out an English magazine called "Straight No Chaser", it covers =
acid-jazz from all over the world. (Subs. address=3D6 Hoxton Sq, London =
N1 6NU).
For those who were talking about music and the deep & meaningful =
thereof, here's a quote from "Sonny's Blues", James Baldwin (1924-1987) =
SNC Mag #33, Aut'95.
"All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. =
And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within, and =
the music enters, what we mainly hear, or hear corroborated, are =
personal, private, vanishing evocations. But the man who creates the =
music is hearing something else, is dealing with the roar rising from =
the void and imposing order on it as it hits the air. What is evoked in =
him, then, is of another order, more terrible because it has no words, =
and triumphant, too, for that same reason. And his triumph, when he =
triumphs, is ours".
Well, what can I say, cut me off at the knees and call me "shorty".
Ciao, Vibes'n.