From: Jason Witherspoon (arzachel_at_speakeasy.org)
Date: 2003-06-23 20:37:17
At 10:34 AM -0700 6/23/03, Jon Bonanno wrote:
>I hate to rain on everyone's parade, but I think we need to keep the
>quality of Cinematic Orchestra's music in perspective. As live jazz
>musicians their talents are suspect (also see: Koop). For those of you
>that enjoyed Cinematic so much in concert I have to words for you:
>Pharoah Sanders.
>
>I was seriously bored at the Cinematic's recent LA show and am thinking
>of avoiding musicians who make pleasant cross genre albums, but pass
>themselves off as jazz musicians in concert. I thought for sure that
>Cinematic would bring something different to their live performance (and
>unless you call a few turntable provided beats something different);
>they didn't.
>
>In a strange way, I find Zero 7 more compelling live than either
>Cinematic or Koop.
>
>Jon
>
>p.s. You can blame the tone of this on the fact that it's Monday morning
>- yuck!
Just speaking studio for a second, I was a big fan of the first
album, but since then-- stuff sounds a *lot* like lite jazz/sonic
wallpaper. The "Theme de Yoyo" cover-- easily the highlight of the
new album-- is a nice thought, but pretty darn pointless next to the
original.
Though I did enjoy Koop live. Go figure.
Now if Chris Bowden would tour w/a live band-- that'd be something!
--
Jason Witherspoon
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