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!
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> 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.
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> 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, ...
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> 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
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> There are singers - Angie Stone, RES, Carol C., Diana Krall
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> There are singer-occasional songwriters - Mary J Blige, Nikka Costa.
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> 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
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> There are singer-songwriter-instrumentalists - Nicky Love,
> Patricia Barber, Beate Lech.
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> 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
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> (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...
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> 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.
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> 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...
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> 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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