Re: Music TALENT + REVIEW | Monday Michiru Hits Western Ear for Wake Up Call

From: Mark Allerton (Mark@warmspot.cix.co.uk)
Date: Thu Aug 02 2001 - 17:39:37 CEST

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    So what you're saying, basically, is that you'd like to shag her.

    On Thursday, August 2, 2001, at 12:51 AM, wesley wrote:

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    > Music TALENT+ REVIEW | Monday Michiru Debuts to a Western Ear in Awe
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    > OK. OK!  Finally... shoot !  Finally!
    >
    > Someone, that someone being a music "critic," on this side of the
    > earth (US) not only listening to a Monday Michiru album (!), BUT,
    > actually smart enough - or not excessively lamed - to first
    > realize, then acknowledge, and inform the rest of the
    > aurally-challenged individuals on the globe what refined and
    > educated Acid Jazz (not of the dance-floor reared) listeners have
    > known as fact for much too long.  Although a far from perfect
    > review (lacking of crucial information), at least a modest 4.5 / 5
    > star rating was given to what is if any were such, a model album.
    >
    > Monday Michiru.  Viewed with reverence, but largely unknown among
    > the many numerous niches and groups in her very own Acid Jazz
    > community and culture, and needless to say: the popular culture of
    > lands all over.  For what has been a gem, a secret in circles
    > across the lands, our pride and joy, ...
    >
    > For groove sake!!  The word's leaked out:
    >  
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    > There isn't a singer on either side of the globe that has this
    > much class or natural ability that uses it this beautifully.
    > Brilliant and moving.
    >   -Thom Jurek
    > On Monday Michiru. 2001
    >
    > There are singers - Angie Stone, RES, Carol C., Diana Krall
    >
    > There are singer-occasional songwriters - Mary J Blige, Nikka Costa.
    >
    > There are singer--co-songwriters with the pointing "oh-no-you-
    > ain't index finger" and/or ready-when-unsteady "Diva-complex"
    > flip-on switch to conceal shortcomings be it appearance (little on
    > the heavy or disproportionate side) or talent (voice is too...,
    > sounds familiar to...)  - Jill Scott, Macy Gray
    >
    > There are singer-songwriter-instrumentalists - Nicky Love,
    > Patricia Barber, Beate Lech.
    >
    > There are singer-songwriters who self-proclaim musical
    > integrity  - "not like your average girl in the music video," says
    > India Arie, who claims beautiful women on PVs aren't artists,
    > rather, simply walking beauties displaying their sex appeal, hence
    > immediately discredited - so to deflect focus from their lacking
    > of physical appeal, or is it jealousy and enviousness?  Hmm -
    > India Arie, Macy Gray
    >  
    >
    > (Wonder what India thinks of the 5 yrs younger and equally
    > talented Alicia Keys who's pretty and partook in creating more of
    > her album than India.  Keys amazingly did production, writing,
    > composing, mixing, piano, and vocals among others - and also
    > humble, sweet and grounded.  Not bad!)
    >  
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    > Then there is her...
    >
    > She has no Diva pretentions, no on- nor off-stage short
    > temperedness - she was a model and actress but quit to pursue
    > music.  She doens't need not be a Diva - she speaks clearly all
    > that is unsaid and need be said.  Yes, she's a beauty in a music
    > video - and non-typical music videos on decidely lower scale.  She
    > is the Beauty in appearance - in person, face to face: of
    > sophistication, mature womanly charms, flowing eloquence, youthful
    > character, concious spirituality, admirable lifestyle & values,
    > intellectual keenness, poeticly striking,...  Oh, but there's a
    > little more.
    >
    > Here's the trump card, trump cards...  A singular
    > singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist career spanning a decade
    > bookmarked with seminal, evolutionary, and revolutionary moments a
    > plenty - often leading the path to sounds new, with others trying
    > to follow.  And so...
    >
    > there is Monday Michiru -  usually sole producer, composer,
    > writer, arranger, vocalist, backing vocals, vocal arrangement,
    > backing vox arrangement, DJ, remixer, and flutist of her works, in
    > addition as long-time musical confidant of Mondo Grosso's sole
    > member and an Acid Jazz icon himself as well, Osawa Shinichi.
    >  
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