From: Wesley (wesleyhongkong@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Dec 26 2002 - 23:08:29 CET
Monday Michiru at PopMatters
http://www.popmatters.com/music/interviews/michiru-monday-021226.shtml
an in-depth Interview Feature on Monday Michiru has been published at
PopMatters, one of the best publications around--a Global Arts and
Culture magazine. it might be the most extensive piece ever written on
her. included are commentary from the likes of Thom Jurek (rolling
stone and spin magazine contributor), the Angel (60 Channels), E. Taylor
Atkins (Northern Illinois University, author of Blue Nippon), and Robin
Eubanks (Oberlin Conservatory, professional jazz trombonist) among
others. monday shares some humorous stories about her childhood,
discusses racism in the jazz sphere, reveals of a dispute with her
label, talks about her marriage and childhood,...
it's fitting publication for a piece on Monday since they're one of the
leading publications in cultural criticism and journalism, and cover
much of groove based music in their reviews, columns, and features.
a couple excerpts from the Monday Michiru feature are pasted below. the
full article can be read at the front page of PopMatters:
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excerpts:
...Thom Jurek, Rolling Stone and Spin contributor, adduces a final
assessment. With words to take to heart, he asserts, "As a singer,
lyricist, and even as an arranger, she moves me like no one else
currently does . . . a more poetic voice doesn't exist currently."
...As a premier model in the contemporary groove scene who has informed
the soul dialect with the global accents of civic cosmopolitanism and
worldly savoir faire and the jazz idiom with transgressive definitions
on manner and tradition, she has revealed a mural of a muse who
concertedly charters earthy soul and funk, classic jazz, and nu jazz
hues in a swirl as colorfully cant as a Wassily Kandinsky canvas and
concretely confident as a Ogiwara Morie construct.
...Monday is unduly generous with her time, having obliged in
conversation for hours-and shines a textured personality: she reveals
she has a quick temper; she explains some label execs in Japan consider
her a bitch, because her Western tendencies conflict with their customs;
she was an avid Law & Order viewer when the economics of time were in
her favor; she hides her thumbs inside her clenched fist so to prevent
her parents from death, a Japanese superstition; her first kiss came at
fifteen and her first love showed at 20; and only reluctantly does she
confess to purchasing the Alicia Keys' album.
...Having envisioned a future as a classical flautist, Monday's dreams
later had to be reconsidered: " . . . Somewhere along the way I lost my
drive and by the time the auditions were on, I had gotten into a car
accident two weeks before and lost two of my lower teeth,
which meant I couldn't practice during that time, and totally failed my
auditions."
http://www.popmatters.com/music/interviews/michiru-monday-021226.shtml
-- ECLECTIC Japan [Sound :: Lounge] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SoundLounge
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