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LES RITA MITSOUKO headlonginto'60snostalgiawith GRAVITY KILLS ACOUSTIQUES Beatlesque harmonies and a psychedelic ENOUGH - TVT/VIRGiN/EMI Delabel (France) guitar, but there's much more to Bartels Producer: Gravity Kills/John Fryer Producer -Les Rita Mitsouko, Condo than meets the eye. For example, there's These industrial-techno-rock alch- The fantastique French duo are back after the mid -tempo Tom Waits melancholy of emists are currently on a European a long hiatus, but not with new material. Arms Around My Anger and the fragile tour with Skunk Anansie, which This album was recorded live for a TV show folky ballad (To The Carnival With) Ruby. tells you where they're at. Dark, fast on French channel M6 and consists of 11 ofThe pulsating rhythmic If That's What and furious, the overwhelming effect their former successes-from Marcia Baila You Want has substantial alternative is of Nine Inch Nails in singalong to CEst Comme Ca-completely re -worked radio appeal, while ACE will love the mode. Enough was composed in a with new arrangements. In addition, singer country -rock ballad Misty Morning. night for a spare slot on a St.Louis Catherine Ringer and composer/ TM radio station. featured in the gritty instrumentalist Fred Chichin offer two new thrillerfilmSevenandpacks tracks-a duet with Princess Erika and ELEVEN PICTURES lifetimes of textured guitar energy another with rapper Doc Gyneco. Although INITIALS into four minutes. the band is no longer experimenting as it Mascot I=> F" did in the early '80s, the outcome is still Producer: Eleven Pictures, Berne Randulw refreshing, and Ringer confirms that she is Whilst playing the Dynamo metal festival a superb singer with style. in 1995, these Swedes realised there was GIANNA NANNINI Bologna homie lets his Italian rhymes E L more to life than plain metal. This, their M'ANIMA flow with a slow, gyrating beat and second album, reveals a penchant for Z-Music/PolyGram Italy funky bass -lines. The remix of Aspettan MISMATES grungymelodiesandwell-balanced Producer: Peter Zumsteg Il Sole captures the sexy ambience of ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL vocals. The heavy guitars are still there, Italy'sfirst lady of rock'n'roll is back in West Coast hip hop even better. Sesame/CNR but they're on a leash most of the time. thelimelightwithher Bomboloni TN/1 Producer: Torsten Rundqvist Fans of the old-style Pictures will enjoy Greatest Hits album, which includes Crystalline pop from Sweden with the the Sabbath -meets -Hendrix riff-festof three new tracks, one of them beingKEATON subtlety of Suzanne Vega or Kirstin Monster, but tracks like Playmates and this radio single. Nannini's distinctive KILL ME Hersh. Thanks to vocalist Anna's warm,Fate X display the kind of depth Pearl raspy vocalsdon'tfail her on this Columbia/Sony Music sweet style of singing and the band'sJam discovered on No Code. The up - ballad, which builds to a dramatic, Producer: not listed knackforwritingseeminglysimple tempo punkiness of It's and All I Want guitar -dominated climax. New wave is alive and well, judging tracks,Mismatesarecertainlyno producesalluringradiotracksfor TMfrom the debut single from Keaton's mismatch. The occasional string section programmers who thinknothingof Intravenous album. Adding a prominent adds an extra flavour, and the up -tempo, playing Offspring. THE BOO RADLEYS bass -linetothedramatic Bauhaus acoustic -sounding 14 is a strong radio TM RIDE THE TIGER (remember them?) -like vocals, this Liege candidate. ACE and alternative radio Creation/3mv/Vital/Sony Music Europe trio prove themselves to be the Belgian could enjoy the mid -tempo rocker Give It Producers: The Boo kings of gloom. Keaton have a '90s dark Time withitspretty harmonies and PHILLIP BOA AND THE Radleys/Kolderie/Slade streak though, tapping the same deep classic -sounding guitar riffs. VOODO CLUB After the fury of Come On Kids, Martin source that Marilyn Manson and Trent TM Carr, Sice and the boys give themselves Reznor have drawn from recently. spaceto breathe with this smooth TN/1 NATE DOGG balladwithwistfulguitars,which G -FUNK CLASSICS, VOL 1 evokes Fields of Fire-era Big Country. LIGHTNING SEEDS Death Row/Interscope/Universql Lazy drums and whirling Hammond SUGAR COATED ICEBERG Producer: Nate Dogg, Daz, Kurupt, Teddy organ gives a nod to the current vogue Epic/Sony Music Riley, Snoop Doggy Dogg for psychedelia, underpinned by some Producer-Bascombe/Broudie/Rogers. The smooth -voiced G -funk crooner is best swelling strings in the chorus. Another nugget of sparkly pop from the known for the 1994 hit Regulate with F° prolific Ian Broudie, whose songs have Warren G, but has also collaborated with been EHR favorites since Epic started theother members of Death Row's BLUR pushing the'Seeds two yearsago. rapping clique, such as Snoop Doggy BEETLEBUM Chugging acoustic guitars, irrresistible Dogg and 2Pac. Now he looks set to follow Food/EMI hooks and chorus and less -than taxing Warren G's What's Love Got To Do With Producer: Stephen Street abstract lyrics make for ideal daytime It into the European bestsellers with this FINE ART ON SILVER -THE SINGLES Firstsingle,out across Europe onmaterial,yet mark littledeparture strong set. Recorded over a three-year COLLECTION January 20, from their self -titled fifth from the band's formula. period,itfeatures contributions from Motor Music/PolyGram Germany album (see page 20), which singer F° Snoop, Blackstreet's Teddy Riley and Once called "The German Julian Damon Albarn describes as "English others. Profanities will prevent airplay on Cope," Boa has been one of the most slacker." Beetlebum is a step away from NU YORICAN SOUL some tracks, but cuts like G -Funk and consistentlytunefulandbizarre the ultra -commercial sound of Country RUNAWAY Crazy, Dangerous have an understated, characters to have been thrown up House and captures Blur in more Talkin LoudMercury/PolyGram contemporary, soulfulness sure to byGermany'salternativemusic experimental style, but its instantly Producers: Vega/Gonzalez continue Death Row's current hot streak. scene in the last two decades. This recognisable sound will still make it anWell on its way to being a salsoul Released internationally on January 13. collection takes in all the primary EHR automatic. classic even beforeitsJanuary 27 PS colours in Boa's often subtle pallete, PS release, Runaway is a perfect drivetime from 1985's Diana, through 1990's record, with Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez BARTEL BARTELS dabbling in dance, This is Michael NEFFA & I MESSAGERI DELLA and Louie Vega packinginevery BARTALES through to last year's unequivocally DOPA gramme of sunshine they've soaked up Columbia rock cover of Bowie's Starman, out as IN LINEA - Blackout/Mercury during years of fusing latino beats and Producer: Wouter Planteijd a single in the GSA territories on Producer: not listed New York club vibes. Soaring vocals A worthy successor to Holland's best January 27. Motor says a wider Jovanotti put Italo-rap on the map and from salsa diva India make this the garage rock band, the Fatal Flowers, European release for the album is Neffatakesitonestepfurther.most accessible track from their self - Bartel Bartels is a one-man project with not planned as yet, although Boa has Adopting the sweet mellow sound oftitled album, due out on February 17. the support of a solid live band. The first a cult following in the U.K Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg, this C, single,GimmeThatFeeling,dives C:30 F"

Reviewers: DP -Dominic Pride; EL -Emmanuel Legrand; PS -Paul Sexton TM-Thessa Mooij Please send review copies to: Dominic Pride, Music Editor, Music & Media, 23 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AH, U.K.

MUSIC & MEDIA JANUARY 18, 1997