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New Mum e Juij j, D1):3 •••••. It ti, Ht \b ,1, ,(1 •• ••••••• 0••••••••••• , •••••••••ibie •gbe•ir •••eu ••11•Clv••111. ••••••••••1 ••••.•••641 Cbeloo ,)ocoeet ALANIS MORISSETTE RAVIKIRANMAHAL/BHATT FUGAZ! FEMI KUTI Rules: Just put something in this bed! You can draw, paste, decoupage, or otherwise construct something to fill in the space. Feel free to use Gene a facsimile of this page. You can make your entry as filthy as you like, but we are a pretty classy "Sleep Well Tonight" contest organization, so your entry probably won't win unless it's a particularly brilliant execution. The hr winners will be chosen based on several factors, including originality, FILL IN THE BED! creativity, uniqueness, ingenuity and appeal. The decision of our judges is final. And, no, they cannot be bought. "Sleep Well Tonight" contest prizes First prize: A weekend for two (air transportation and 2 nights hotel) in the city of your choice (within the continental U.S.), and a Gene flight jacket (approximate value: $1,000) 5 Second prizes: A comfy pillow and a Gene flight jacket (approximate value: $75) 10 Third prizes: A sleep mask and an autographed copy of the Gene Olympian vinyl (approximate value: $20) Send entries to: "Sleep Well Tonight" contest c/o Scott Carter 1416 N. La Brea Ave. Hollywood CA 90028 Enter as many times as you want, but only one entry per envelope, please. No purchase necessary to enter Sponsored by PolyGram Records, Inc To enter by wrifing. send a postcard lo PolydonAllas Records, 1416 N. La Brea Ave Hollywood, CA 90028. Attention Gene. Sleep Well Tonight All entries must be postmarked by August 1. 1995 Winner will be notified by mail All entnes become the properly of A8M Records and will not be returned. 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All rights reserved Ow 'rife reteElt CMJ FUGAZI Red Medicine FEMI KUTI Femi Kuti Dischord, 3819 Beecher St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20007 703.243.2454 Tabu, c/o Motown, 5750 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036 July 3, 1995 Vol. 43 No. 3 Issue 434 Opening with the distorted and urgent racket of arehearsal Femi Kuti is the Nigerian-born son of notorious superstar jam, Red Medicine quickly coalesces into Fugazi's trademark Fela Anikulapo Kuti. The young saxophonist's debut as a COLLEGE MEDIA, INC. NEW MUSIC REPORT punk-rock precision, and then gradually band leader is an invigorating blast of builds up to an intense climax, culminating Afrobeat that possesses many similarities President Publisher in the album-closer "Long Distance Robert Haber Robert Haber to his father's musical stylings. His use of a •••••• •••• Editor-In-Chief Runner," which we'll take out of context as ••• ,b•tlir•••• large band with numerous drummers, Executive Vice Presidents -•••••••••11 Megan McLaughlin a fitting metaphor for Fugazi's eight-year ••••*•••• horns galore and female singers echoing his Joanne Abbot Green 43130000•• Managing Editor career. Putting "one foot...in front of the lyrics recalls Fela's work, as do his lyrics of Diane Turofsky Lydia Anderson other," selling hundreds of thousands of social commentary. Also like his father, General Counsel Music Editor records one-at-a-time (still $8 post paid) Femi writes songs that are often long, Alex Ellerson James Lien out of Ian MacKaye's living-room record bass-driven polyrhythmic jams. but the ACCOUNTING Associate Editors company. Fugazi will no doubt outlast difference between the two is the youthful Controller Cheryl Botchick today's "young millionaire" punk stars vigor that Femi brings to the fore of each Jean J Bentley. C.P.A. Colin Helms ("Target") as the band creates one of the most vital and tune. "Survival" is awondrous mixture of propelling horn David Newgarden Bookkeeper consistently compelling bodies of work of "generation fuck riffs and Femi's boyishly aggressive vocals, while the other Glen Sansone Linda Mortensen you" ("By You"; apologies to the authors). side of the coin is explored on the cool and Assistant Editors Fugazi songs are ticking time bombs which ADMINISTRATIVE mellow "Frustrations - with its jazzy fermi Glenn Executive Assistant sometimes explode, sometimes implode, undercurrents. The album's centerpiece, Dawn Sutter Amy Tesch and sometimes just leave you hanging however, is "Plenty Nonsense," which Distribution Coordinator Office Manager tensely; and they're not significant just for features Femi's effervescent sax, a Aaron Clow Donna K Rodger the dynamic energy and catchy punch, but wondrous groove and aseeming whirlwind Traffic/Editorial Assistant also for the intelligent bite of MacKaye and of sound created by the band. While not ART DEPARTMENT Jenny Eliscu Guy Picciotto's social/political/cultural totally out of his father's shadow, Femi Kuti MONTHLY Overseas Columnist oratory—not didactic diatribes but personal shows he's got plenty of new ideas for the Senior Art Director Martin Aston and emotional reactions and observations future of Afrobeat, and his debut is an Alley Rutzel New World Columnist setting fires under listeners. This is another unqualified delight. JIM CALIGIURI Cliff Furnald NEW MUSIC REPORT bottle of Fugazi medicine both powerful (we prescribe Art Director RPM Columnist "Target," "Back To Base," "Downed City - and "Bed For N. RAVIKIRAN/TAJ MAHAL/V.M. BHATT Timothy G Haslett Wendt Horowitz The Scraping") and subtle ("Fell, Destroyed" and "Forensic Mumtaz Mahal Associate Art Director Jazz Columnist Scene"). DAVID NEWGARDEN Water Lily Acoustics, PO, Box 9I 448, Santa Barbara, CA Ron Goodman Gene Kalbacher 93190 805.968.8188 MUSIC MARATHON MUSIC MARATHON BIG SUGAR 500 Pounds V.M. Bhatt's last collaboration was with Ry Cooder; that Associate Art Director Executive Producer Silvertone, 137-139 W. 25th, New York, NY 10001 212.727.0016 record reached beyond each of the individual's styles to Kyle Goen Joanne Abbot Green Call Big Sugar "retro" if you must—the band certainly create something entirely folksy and organic, but born of COMPUTING Associate Producer makes no bones about its influences; hell, it no particular tradition. Like that record, Systems Manager Jinnette Ries-Park even covers a Traffic tune—but don't tag Mumtaz Mahal surpasses its elements. The Jim Caligniri Associate Director the outfit as anything less than one songs here —half of which are covers of Systems Analyst Diane Turofsky blistering, reverently-inspiring, blues-rock American blues/folk songs—are minimal Shelley Rosen Convention Consultant powerhouse. Taking cues from the likes of and plaintive, allowing the musicianship to Bonnie Gallanter SALES Cream, the Stones, Ten Years After and shine. Tal Mahal's voice is gruff and earnest, Director of Marketing Showcase Manager early ZZ Top. Big Sugar grafts the his wailing coasting on top of his acoustic Steven Savoca Ken Park smoldering intensity of some time-honored guitar, Ravikiran's traditional chitra vina, and Showcase Coordinator blues guitar onto a heavy-as-lead Bhatt's mohan vino, a vinal slide guitar Sales Manager Claudia A. Schutz instrumental bottom, translating Menachem Harari hybrid of his own invention. All of the songs Convention Coordinator quintessential rock themes into a muscular have a slow bluesy cadence, suited to the INTERNS Vicki Aubin '90s framework. Frontman Gordy Johnson is a skilled stringed instruments. The cover of the traditional -Mary David Collado Assistant Kier Eliasoph renaissance man, to say the least: not only does he maneuver Don't You Weep - removes the gospel sway and replaces Garth McDermott Duane Marriott aconsiderable number of varied guitar paths, it with an almost funereal pace, Mahal's Sam Jeffries from rip-roaring head-on rockers to dark, \Itilimic Mahal voice soft and cajoling. "Come On In My NEW MUSIC MONTHLY Natasja Keller slide-guitar laments to bits of funk, reggae I. /(erroAriffe, • ,lederel • 1,1. Rex," Kitchen," written by Robert Johnson, also Nancy Koenig Editor and soul, but his singing explores almost replaces the rolling rhythm with Donna Lichaw Scott Frampton every fold of the tortured blues that awhite Tom Hagan something slower and more studied, Associate Publisher Jordan Sat-lego boy could hope for. Songs like the opener removing most of the song's inferred Marianne Stone Andy Rosen "Ride Like Hell" serve as a playground for suggestiveness. While each of the three Managing Editor Sara Sharf Johnson's crackling axework; "Wild Ox instruments follows the basic form of the Douglas Wolk Derrick Thomas Moan" is a haunting, back-room blues song, melody, each offers variation, making the his vocals swinging from a low baritone to a 1511,10 i111, le results sound less like a unified whole and lilting falsetto; "Deliver Me" snakes around more like the three parts are loosely funk and soul; "Sugar In My Coffee" is an authentic bit of bound together. To capture the feel of the collaboration smoky slide guitar rock. SOO Pounds indeed. COLIN HELMS even further, listen to "Curry And Quartertones," a conversatior the three have about the music they're 11 Middle Neck Road, Suite 400 Great Neck, NY 11021-2301 playing. Mumtaz Mahal is afolk album, regardless of what TELEPHONE: 516.466.6000 FAX: 516.466.7159 folk you're speaking about.