From: BALFOURTH Winston (BMB) (Winston.BALFOURTH@proximus.net)
Date: Mon Dec 16 2002 - 12:58:00 CET
Have to second Brian on the Delicious Poison album as it blew me away
when I first got it in early '97 and it still does the rounds today. I
can only dream that perhaps one day she'll grace us in the UK.
Win.
-----Original Message-----
From: BRIAN [mailto:bbaltin@earthlink.net]
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 11:22 PM
To: Acid Jazz ml - UCSD
Subject: Re: [acid-jazz] GIG GUIDE/Monday Michiru query
Monday Michiru is a sublime Japaneseacid jazz singer who came up with
(and
frequently recorded with) DJ Krush, United Future Org, Kyoto Jazz
Massive
and Mondo Grosso in the early '90s. She's also worked with (or been
remixed
or produced by) everyone from Patrick Forge to Joe Claussell to Masters
at
Work to Yasushi Ide to Dred Scott to Flora and Airto, among many others.
Her
best cuts have a strong Brazilian/Latin lustre, including the miraculous
"Mysteries of Life" (on the Chasing After the Sun EP) and "Changes" (on
the
4 Seasons LP), all of the New Beginnings EP, and the lovely Delicious
Poison
LP (my pick for the best acid jazz LP, period, as far as a live, organic
full band sound). She now lives on Long Island, and her last LP,
Episodes in
Color, has a sound that's far more subdued, and frankly the songs aren't
as
strong as her usual, but it shows a maturation into an urbane, slightly
off-kilter, and more than anything staggeringly intricate vocal jazz
singer
in the mode of a Carmen Lundy or Sathima Bea Benjamin or Nanette Natal.
I'm
hoping she'll go back to the more full-bodied, richer, and more
dancefloor-oriented production that established her, but even with a
small
group, she'll have to be amazing. I have to figure out how to get there
from
L.A. with essentially no money! (As even though she's relocated to NY
she's
not performing much at all, because of a new baby. This is only her
second
show of the year as far as I know. And yes, if anything was ever going
to be
worth braving the Blue Note's crap, this is it.)
For enough Monday records to fill half a crate (pretty much everything
that's in print in Japan and elsewhere), go to Dusty Groove
(dustygroove.com).
Brian
On 12/13/02 12:45 PM, "Jon Bonanno" <jon@bondesen-graup.com> wrote:
> Pardon my ignorance - what's Monday Michiru? And does it warrant the
Blue
> Note mishegoss? I'm in NYC and seeing Medea on Dec. 26th but could
stop by
> the Blue Note afterwards.
>
> Jon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BRIAN [mailto:bbaltin@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 12:44 PM
> To: Acid Jazz ml - UCSD
> Subject: [acid-jazz] GIG GUIDE for L.A., New York, Chicago, London for
week
> of 12/13 (from Liquidator Graphics)
>
> Hello all,
>
> The house ridiculousness continues in Los Angeles with Kings of
Tomorrow,
> Little Louie Vega, Richard F, and Mark Farina coming through, but
there's
> more loveliness for the week with Julie Dexter in L.A., the man Terry
> Callier and Vinicius Cantuaria in Chicago, and Marlena Shaw and JTQ in
> London. Details below. And an essential early warning: Monday Michiru
is
> back at the Blue Note in NYC on December 26!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Brian Baltin
> Aesthetic Rejuvenator
> Liquidator Graphics
>
> For much more please visit www.liquidatorgraphics.com. The new CD by
Baltin:
> "Bellissima Idyll (Chasing After the Sun)" is now available.
>
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