Erik Gaderlund (erikg@macconnect.com)
Sun, 15 Nov 1998 17:11:01 -0800
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>From: Elson Trinidad <elson@westworld.com>
>Subject: Unlikely AJ
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>Here's some unlikely AJ examples I've heard recently -
>
>Natalie Merchant - her latest single (forgot the title) has N'Dea Davenport
>backing her up; the music has some semblance of a jazz-funk feel, with
>horns, and a great deal of at least what I heard from the album has some
>rare groove elements, namely in the Wurlitzer and Hammond B-3 sounds.
>
>Beck - His new album "Mutations" has some pretty interesting tracks on
>it...I heard "Tropicalia" which begins unabashedly in a Bossa Nova mode,
>then mutates (no pun intended) into this laid back downtempo jazzy funk
>thang...when I finally found out it was Beck it blew my mind...
>
>Comments, disses, etc welcome...
>
Hmm, just couldn't get into Beck, though I may check out Natalie Merchant;
had lots of friends in College who loved 10,000 Maniacs.
But, on to others going 'hip' I was reading in the gossip column of the
local paper about how Bruce Springsteen will be coming out with a hip hop
tinged album , with a statement to the effect that, rock has lost its
protest or gritty feel and that he feels that hip hop has taken on the
mantel. And, certianly with the current nostalgia for N.W.A.'s "Straight
Outa Compton"--and how it is purported to have broken ground. There maybe
some intesest in more visabal modes of expression--just so long as The [MC]
Boss does't do a collaboration with Puff Daddy.
erik g
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