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t’s 10 minutes before the interview begins and I’m a little nervous. My notes are in a jumble, and I’m still I trying to figure out how to use my tape recorder. I am about to talk to the founding member of the outspoken Kronos Quartet, whose gentle yet vibrant chamber music has been heard at thousands of concerts and on more than 20 recordings in the past two decades. The minutes turn into seconds. I make the call and am told to wait while violinist David Harrington makes his way to the phone. I wish myself good luck. Artsweek When did the Kronos Quartet first come into being? David Harrington: 1973. How did it start? I heard some music on the radio one night... and then I heard this piece called “Black Angels” by George Crumb, and I had one of those moments when ... sud denly the world seemed really clear and what I wanted to do in my life seemed really clear. At that point I was in Seattle.... The group evolved a lot over the first five years. By 1978 Joan [Jeanrenaud, cello], and Hank [Dutt, vio la], and John [Sherba, violin], and I started playing together, so it’s been 20 years. So when did you start playing violin? When I was 9 years old. Each of us in Kronos started roughly at that age, so we have been playing for a long time. What got you interested in playing violin? I heard a violinist on television and I wanted to do it Can you describe the hind of music that you play? I would try not to describe it because it might be totally different the next time. 1 have friendships and relation ships with different composers from vastly different cul so you arrange your songs tn a special oraerv them lead me to the next adventure and new composer tures and backgrounds. ... Some have been writing music Yes, because I feel that what somebody experiences and experience. It’s kind of an inner sense. When you for many, many years and what you have is kind of a body and what they experience next often defines something meet someone and you get a sense of [who they are, it is of music written by people from all over the world. There new. We put a lot of our thought into what we’re intend similar to] when I hear a new composer. For me, it’s very are men and women from about 35 different countries ing to perform. No two of our concerts are the same. We personal. [When] the music we play has been written for from all of the major religions writing for us. like to take a lot of chances and experiment with our us, [the composers] know a lot about us personally, so Do you ever compose your own music? work... so the concert that we play in Santa Barbara will the music has a sense of the handmade. What I am look We don’t compose our own music. What I am inter be a mint-condition experience. Hopefully it will add up ing for is something incredibly personal but also totally ested in is finding the greatest composers of our time, and to something more than the parts. universal. hopefully they will write their best pieces for us. I don’t Does Kronos seek out the composers or is it the other think there is a Stravinsky or a Beethoven in Kronos. way around? The Kronos Quartet performs tonight at 8 in Campbell When there are people that we know of on that level I It works every way, we do commission a lot of new Hall. After the show the quartet will remain for a meet- think we ought to let them do the writing. One of the pieces. the-artists discussion with audience members. For more things that we do is compose evenings of music by as How do you decide whether a piece is worthy of the information, please call UCSB Arts & Lectures at sembling our work in a way that is a composition. So I quartet canon? 893-3535. feel very involved compositionally in our work. All I ever have tried to do is follow my ears and let Can't Drive 5 5 O h , G o d Don Bradley / Angels in a Harsh love and her “angel within” at the brink W orld / Heartstrings Press Though my affinity for of World War II. video games usually leans Led by a haunting and mysterious re His eyes never left her. She was the curring dream, Haley travels to India, toward such tact-oriented center of any circle and the mark. It and strategically challeng where she becomes entangled with a was visible to those who had the eyes Maharajah, an agent of the dark side. ing mind exercises like to see, a heart to feel “Tetris,” “Battleship” andi The Maharajah imprisons Haley, hop So begins the latest novel by Don ing to tear her way from David Hamp “Electronic Connect Bradley, Angels in a Harsh World. The ton, the man she loves, and thwart her Four,” the arrival of Activi book chronicles the adventures of an celestial mission. sion’s “Interstate ’76” pro extraordinary young woman named Ha As Haley falls into the downward spi vided not only a fresh in ley Olston, who finds herself waging ral of the Maharajah, she is rescued by J, sight to the art of animated battle against the forces of evil while still who introduces her to a mystical and violence, ,but also for a somehow managing to discover true esoteric branch of Islam known as the brief moment allowed this Sufi ascetics. closet cyber-geek to ven ture into a psychedelic J becomes Haley’s spiritual teacher as mid-’70s world some cards, or the smooth funk- Sounds basic, but I had he shows her the beauty of the soul and where between R o a d filled, disco-dominated a hard time just deciding the power of love and joy. With his help, Warrior and Pulp Fiction. world that you, “Groove which of the 25 demoli A i t o k * Haley prepares to face the perils and tri As the double CD is Champion,” and your tion cars to use. In the end, bulations to come. downloading onto the companion “Taurus” the “school bus o’ death” Although the premise of the book hard drive (you need to shoot and decimate your became my choice. As seems interesting, the writing style and have at least 80 megabytes way through will have the there are times when you character portrayal is immature and of uncompressed space effect of a weak strobe. don’t know who or where naive — reminiscent of a really cheesy available), you are treated The basic premise of the bullets are coming romance novel. Along with weak writ this “Spy Hunter”-esque from, and other times ing, everything else is extremely predict to a scratchy radio news able and banal. 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... techno... deep house. So we all tend to kind of know each other So how didyou develop they way you sing’cos it’s re ally unique? I think what helped me a lot was the fact that I couldn’t sing when I started doing the album, and I hadn’t been singing and I wasn’t a singer, and so I think Do You Like My Trip Hop? that helped me in a way. I think a lot of the time singers get tied up in technical Ants week’s Jolie I. Lash gets technocal with JVIoloko aspects of it and in terms of my melodies and my lyrics, they just come from a slightly different angle than anyone then? else’s ’cos I had no training.... Nobody told me what to Having stolen their name from a drink in A Clock do, so maybe thaf s why it came^mt a bit strange. I’m a bit No I don’t laugh at them because it affects the way work Orange, and with songs that seem to effortlessly strange. blend the cartoon humour of Fat Albert and Scooby Doo journalists [portray artists]. They have a responsibility with bits of jazz, funk, rock ’n’ roll and ticklings of elec toward artists, to give them their jobs by being there to tronic noise, Moloko is one creative outfit. write about or to put on television, so it is pretty serious Their album Do You Like My Tight Sweater, which when a whole immensely rich and beautiful thing is took two years to gain a release date in the U.S., is a col happening. lection of pulsating, flirtatious and completely addictive [Trip Hop] is a movement in a sense that you can tie it trip hop. The duo combines the lyrics and seductive voc all together, but when it all gets lumped into this category als of Roishin Murphy with the clever programming of and also that it kind of has strange connotations to It as Mark Brydon. Hie stoiy of how they met is too good not well—as if everybody’s just trying to be weird or just be to mention. ing arty or whatever. Ifs like, we’re musicians and we de Apparently, if bios are to be believed, Roishin serve a bit more thought to the labels that people put on snuggled up to Mark in a club with the pick-up line “Do music. And I think thaf s across the board. I think you’ll you luce my tight sweater? See how it fits my body.” And find jungle artists feel the same way. as the tale goes, he whisked her away to a studio where Anybody thaf s really trying hard with their music, try they made a song of the same name. ing to push it somewhere that nobody else does, trying to Although Tricky seems to get all the attention for be represent their personality and their voice and they actu ing a trip-hop artist, we looked up Moloko’s Murphy and ally put effort into that, they deserve the effort of the me Biydon to find out about their own diverse sound and dia to be explained better than perhaps sometimes why they stand out in this blooming genre of music.; they’re explained. So what’s die appeal of being based in Sheffield as Artsweek So is it weird talking about the album opposed to London, where a lot of artists seem to flock since it came out two years ago? to? Roishin Murphy: It’s a bit strange yeah. But it’s not a We just ended up here really, both of us. Mark came problem. I still think if s a really fresh album... if s a good here as a student ’cos he was obsessed with climbing. ... album. It’s relevant I think. If s particularly relevant in He was really into rock climbing and we’re right outside America at the moment. the Peak District - just a 10-minute drive, and ifs just a We’ve just been over there and people seem to be re really beautiful district for like rock climbing; lots of ca ally into it. In a funny way, [Americans seem] more read nyons, not by any scale like they have in America... but ily into it than they were here. I think it was a bit too very beautiful nonetheless. ahead of if s time in some ways when it came out, and I I ended up here ’cos I came with a boyfriend and then So what influences you to write songs like "Killa don’t think people really understood what to say about it ended up staying. But, ifs a good place to make music when it came out over here. Bunnies” for example? ’cos there’s so much variety here musically and you don’t They all come from a different angle, influence. ... They were like comparing it to Portishead, and now tend to get as separated by the kind of thing that you’re when you look back on it with bands like Moorcheeba, [With] “Killa Bunnies,” we saw an interaction exhibition into as you would say, in London. with computer animation and it was about bunnies, but Sneaker Pimps, stuff like that, there is somewhere to put I mean if I was in London I might have been a little Moloko and a way of understanding Moloko, whereas they were like communists ... and they all had machine techno freak or a junglist or a this or a that, and in Shef guns. Anyway, it was this whole society of rabbits that before there was nothing before us but Portishead. ... field there isn’t the support [for] the clubs like there is in What we do is funky, kind of slightly strange pop [with] London, so we tend to sort of mingle all in together. So wore these Nazi arm bands and had machine guns and jumped around in these amazing kind of pods things and no relation to Tricky or Portishead, or even Massive we know rock bands and we know people who do jungle Attack. worshiped a huge, giant carrot. So we then had this rock Well, I’m sure we owe a Moloko's Mark Brydon and Roishin IVIurphyj track going on and we had no idea where it came from, lot to Massive Attack. why we ended up doing a rock track but we were doing [Their] first album really one and we thought, “Oh we can’t do a serious song, we opened a lot of people’s have to demasculinize it. We have to [make fun of] it a ears. I think it just hadn’t bit.” Ifs kind of enjoyable doing a rock track and taking been done — that kind of away its masculinity. combination of studio and (The phone is now passed to Brydon as the interview songwriting and ideas and continues...) So how important is art to your music? production level. ... But Mark Brydon: I spent six years training as an architect since then there’s been and I know about five architects that are currently work people like us, like Tricky, ing in programming music, in contemporary music. So I Portishead and along think there is some kind of parallel between the way comes Moorcheeba, three-dimensional artists work and the way music is Sneaker Pimps.... Ifs be made ’cos you’re trying to make some order out of chaos. coming enough of a scene I mean we’re visual people, we enjoy visual arts but we for people to understand don’t kind of look at a painting and are moved to write [a what each different per song] about it.... Music, ifs a thing in itself. The mental son’s different outfit does and physical processes in carving a block of stone and and why they do it diffe making music are probably pretty similar. You know rently to the others. hey, let’s not get too cultural about it. I mink in a way ifs bet So is that little guy on the cover of your album your ter timed to be out in mascot? America now because I We’re gonna kill him soon I think. He’s been around. think ifs the right time for He’s new for America. it. I think it was too early Oh thaf s true. [in Britain}. A lot of people Where did he come from? missed the boat on Mo He was like a doodle. We went to these designers loko the first time, and called Designers Republic, who were really kind of pion they’re going to be very eering that kind of techno artwork at the beginning... embarrassed about that in years to come. We searched long and hard for some opposite of whal So do you laugft at they normally do and it ended up being some doodles on labels like "trip hop" someone’s telephone pad that made the grade. Daily Nexus Thursday, April 17,1997 5 A

managed to capture the es sence and feel of The On the Record Smiths, Gene’s sopho- Rick 6 The Week A little somethin' for all you crrrazy metal fans ... TTelittet 7 aftertaste / Interscope Helmet has never been much interested in the grand your own hole is that, like alists who’ll cringe at the iose excesses of heavy metal. Sure, the guitars have al He said the best rock ’n’ roll, you duo’s lack of regard for ways been turned up to 11, and their atonal blurbs of can play it really loud in rules, but fens of the unor static and feedback generally register somewhere be your car stereo, drive ar thodox will appreciate tween “annoying” and “demonic” to the Tommy Hilfi- The Chemical Brothers / ound, and it will make you these kids’ ties to the next ger set — but really, Who cares what mall shoppers dig your own hole / cool, no matter who you school. more release sees the band think anyway? Astralwerks are. “Balcony Beach” finds Helmet has stripped down rock to its basic elements, —Keir DuBois attempting to discover its Lyrics Bom dropping a re- freeing the genre from its most deplorable trappings There are a lot of tiny- vealing meditation on ag own sound. What this pursuit ends masturbatoiy guitar noodling, pouty press photos, brained people out there She said ... rock-star posings and sloppy, three-chord rock ditties who hate techno. These in is a sort of hodgepodge of British guitar pop mixed in 4/4. people swear techno will Pressure truly is a pow Rather than funncling his vision into a watered- never incorporate itself erful thing. In Britain a with some highly emo tional vocals. With this down mishmash of pop sensibility, singer/songwriter/ into rock ’n’ roll, simply great weight is levied on guitarist Page Hamilton infects listeners with his over because techno doesn’t musical artists to “crack” said, the band’s frontman, Martin Rossiter, manages whelmingly Spartan approach to songwriting — em rock. the American market. In bodying the tension and instability of his dig your own hole essence, breaking America to pull it off in a convinc ing, while on “Say That” ing fashion. There’s a sort arrangements. proves that electronics do is the equivalent of win Lateef joins, his partner At tire forefront of the arrangements, Hamilton’s gui rock, and rock a hell of a ning really big in the lot of tenderness in every note over a sampled series of ro alongside Rozzer’s con tar is sparse and unpredictable with a deceptively ha- lot more than anything on tery. Many try, but few ac botic bleeps. On some ph azard feel—in feet, he strictly adheres to a complex radio right now that calls tually score big. sciousness of the power of other shit, for sure. words. and rhythmic scheme. This allows for unique interplay itself rock. For Britain’s The Chem —ERIKSOLO between bassist Henry Bogdan and drummer John Sta- Why? ical Brothers, this pressure Ballad-esque songs Redd Kross / Show W orld have always been a forte of nier, who entangle the listeners' rhythmic, subcon Simple as be-bop-a-lu- is beginning to show. / Mercury scious sense of tension and catharsis with polyrhythms la: You hear “bloc rockin’ “Techno’s first super- Gene, “save me, I’m yours,” and “speak to me and syncopated offbeats. Not simply providing Usten- beats” and you want to stars,” as they’ve been Somewhere amidst the ers with a head-bobbing, mind-numbing release, Hel move your body. You hear labeled, have really gone someone,” do not disap god-awful wasteland se point thanks to the deli met challenges tire conventional capabilities of rhythm the tide track and it hits Leftfield on this release. If parating Stone Temple Pi to disturb and disarm listeners, forcing them to interact your eardrums with such you didn’t catch their last cate and comforting ba lots from Bryan Adams lies lance between Steve Ma with the music rather than allowing them to simply full-length release, E xit a little power-pop band disconnect. Planet Dust, now might son’s guitar and Rossiter’s known as Redd Kross. vocals. This sense of rhythmic instability puts the listener off be a good time to make an Some of us might recall the guard, allowing space for Hamilton’s suspended voc investment in it—//you’re This record highlights jovial melodies of this the passion the members als. Vacillating between emotionless crooning and expecting dig to be a conti four-piece from our junior maniacal condemnation, he slips unnoticed into the nuation of the energy of Gene feel for their high days, when they music. While not quite up mind and acts as a connective tissue for the instrumen found on the latest single seemed to sound better. tal sections which seem liable to disintegrate into chaos “bloc rockin’ beats.” to par with their debut al Others may perceive them bum Olympian, this re at any moment. The vocals provide a slightly subdued dig your own hole as a budding indie pop melodic quality to the otherwise blunt, rhythmic nature simply fails to keep your cord’s quest to find the band, but don’t let the band’s own voice is coura of Helmet’s music. pulse racing with the fren haircuts and tight shirts The resuitis uncomfortable music, music that is diffi force that you know it’s no zied, caffeine overload geous and valiant. fool you—Redd Kross has —Jolie I. Lash cult to anticipate,and music that is all the more satisfy wimpy dance pop. It Exit does. It’s not a bad al ing once listeners are able to come to terms with the grooves and you can rock mutated into the rock-star bum, but if you’re looking bastard son of STP and ev Gene subtleties that define and direct aftertaste’s 13 tracks,] out to it. for the jackpot on excite ery 35-year-old crap-rock Ml ,< r - '< -firje e Baer The Chemical Brothers ment you may want to artist on VH-1. If only they don’t mess around; they hold out for Prodigy. C o n te st!!! were that interesting. In support of Gene’s know what rocks. They —Jolie I. Lash Although Show World know that the Beades new aibun, Polygram Lateef & Lyrics Bom / attempts to touch base has provided us with rock; the MTV hit “Setting with the post-Nirvana fens Sun” is a perfect modem Latyrx / Solesides copies of Gene's import update of “Tomorrow searching for a new leader, only n e ITo @ n Tbs Never Knows,” from the With the release of the album plays like a K and Imited R evo lver album. They Latyrx, NorCal’s Sole- pathetic attempt to sound tdmmi totin sides crew drops a 21st- like eveiything else on the <$w® «¡¿I posters. know old-school hip-hop damn radio. rocks; the “Elektrobank” century hip-hop album To win cal 893-2691 with intro by Kool Here is the you’ll either love or hate. —Tony Bogdanovski the answer to this best endorsement they FYI: I’m a lover (’cos the Gene / drawn to the deep question: could get. world needs more of us). e n d / A SM what are the names of I know some tradition The best part about dig While their debut effort the members of Gene? Afeyofepto]deoaifcc|q|es«hlol>thepcliti

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