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Tickets available at rxx^^tAwrmmboutlets, or charge 280-4444, or www.ticketmaster.ca . I • • • _s____-=r^_^_!__!K_rrs_-__- 5&mZ ™ his stories in their "The Best are filled with girls. Dumb Short Stories of... ollec girls, smart girls, fat girls, tions They make him a final skinny girls, old girls, young Das Book ist for the National Book girls, all kinds of girls. From Award. They give him the the fat, slow-witted girl in PEN/Faulkner and the Rea "The Tragedy of Premature Award. The Night in Death among Geniuses" Question was even a New BY GIBBY PEACH York Times Notable Book of ny, genius girl in "Odds the Year. The whip cream on that, all things considered, TOBIAS WOLFF in Question. Like so many makes me smile. He makes me top of the pie, though, is that she'd someday be happy" The Night In Question American wordsmiths these cry. I rip off his ideas when I he gets to be writer-in-resi- who had me grinnin' like a (Vintage) days, Wolff suffers from a bad write. But Wolff really likes dence at Syracuse University Cheshire, Gartner has ZSUZSI GARTNER case of "Carveritis." You know Carver. A lot. You know what I where all the fancy-pants, developed characters who All the Anxious Girls on the symptoms: the short sen mean. What's more, Wolff is pipe-smoking old boys tell I'm going to see on the bus, Earth tences, the understated empha- very, very male. A Vietnam vet him he's the best thing since at work, at the grocery (Kev Portner) eran, his stories are rife with Hemingway Sure, the cal store, everywhere. I might Three things in life are given: endings. Now, I shouldn't say iber of his writing is high and cry when I see them. I might this collection is certainly death, taxes, and the ongoing that this is necessarily smile. I don'l know. That, to worth purchasing, but it's battle for sexual supremacy unfavourable. I dig Carver He ters. His boys don't cry. And me, is the sign of someone time for the old boys to pull between males and females they don't get anxious. Despite who knows what the hell up their pants and realize Boys get all the cushy jobs. Girls the stereotypically American they're doing. , that the girls deserve some get bigger brains. The writing writing, however, there are Now, sure, people are lov accolades too. ibout two or three real gems in ing Zsuzsi to death around here. exempt from this rule. Short fic- this ollectio Girls like Zsuzsi Gartner But what about the rest of the the flick American Beauty the Owner of the coolest name this country? Will she get nominated seem to exemplify this point other night (unreal... no shit) side of Chinua Achebe, Gartner less plug) to buy this book. If for a Governor-General's Award rather well: the boys (Papa, and it seems like it could have is local, cool as snake-skin you've blinked an eye in our (when she should win)? Where Faulkner, etc) win all the fancy been written by Tobias Wolff boots in Surrey, and at the fair city at any time in the past was her name among the awards, while the girls (WeIry, The awkward moments, the lack beginning of a prolific career. year, you've undoubtedly heard Booker nominees? I'll be Erdrich, Oates) possess most of of a strong moral compass, the Gartner's first collection, All the of Zsuzsi's girls Anyone and damned if there's gonna be the talent Some of you macho fact that you want to cry at the Anxious Girls on Earth, is so everyone who's cool has raved another book this good in a knuckleheads out there may dis end; these things are written all good that I bought it after read about this book (except for the long, long while. So where's agree with me, but I'm going to over Wolff's book. ing the first story (which isn't pinhead in BC Book World who Zsuzsi's money and fame? Tobias Wolff can use his talent to prove myself and make you feel Now here's where I prove even one of the good ones) said it was good, but not as write about boys. At war, at like idiots (or maybe not, we'll my point: academic big-leagues while browsing in the book ; everyone says; fu play, wherever; I don't give a see). in the United Snakes drool all store. Now, I should point out him), ning thei rat's ass. My money's on Zsuzsi's Let's consider, first off, over Wolff like he's a smelly, hot that I usually get the books I 9 for book of the year. I'd girls. Every last anxious one of Yankee writer Tobias Wolff's slice of apple pie (what could review for free because asshole be hard-pressed to disagree. them. • collection of shorts, The Night be more American?). They stick publishers want me to say good Gartner's stories, unlike Wolff's, Vancouver # BASSIX THewoks sound a bit like Sonic When I think of EVAN Youth with a sense of humour, , SYMONS, I think of this poster I or the children of an SST band. saw for his thirtieth birthday Their tape has a number of party. His tongue was a few "Untitled Symphonies" that inches away from licking a sound quite good, but would 1 book. So when I received his sound a lot better if they were O new two song demo, I was three or four minutes shorter. The to take all the wah-wah expecting a good laugh. The first other tracks feature spoken word pedals in the universe song, "Mik-ayla," features a on Pop Art and the laws of and start a fire. There is nothing EQUIP- jnding, annoying crying physics, and there's one hard else that can ruin a song more core track about a hairy-legged quickly than that God-awful pedal. Okay, the Core can have the only wah-wah in the world just in case they have to perform
i failed again. I tried, I Film Most Likely to Cause a Existo This is the political y tried to see at least 50 Post-Viewing Fight: A Day in answer to The Rocky Horror ies in the 1 6 days of the Black and White It's short Picture Show we've all been International Film (only 85 minutes) but so Festival. As usual, I stalled out jammed with conflicting, con excess plot. at about 35. The annual prob trasting points of view on its Best Dirty On-screen Sex by lems of fatigue, butt-ache, and central theme — race relations a Major Actor: Ralph Fiennes in the perils of trying to subsist in America — that the argu Sunshine If you didn't see it solely on popcorn were this ments it starts will last for days. at the festival, chances are you year accentuated by Gumby- Best Teenage Coming Out have missed out on the most and-Pokey burnout, manage Film (Female): Show Me graphic sex that a name actor ment/labour discord, and a Love The Swedish film was has engaged in since 1975, plethora of second-week screen also winner of Best Ending and because there will definitely be ings that were duller than a Most Painful Scene(s). The lade t this stranger's wedding. biggest question about this tale 20th century Hungarian histori It isn't abnormal for the fes of an unlikely bond between the cal epic before its regular tival to fly out of the blocks with most shunned girl in school and release Besides bouncing his a first-week barrage of thought- the babe-a-licious object of her Fiennes bit o' sunshine across provoking, well-made films, and affection is the title change. In the screen on two separate then lose a bit of speed as the Sweden, it was called Fucking occasions, Ralph demonstrates festival wends its way through Amal (as in "Why am I stuck in fhe abilities that have surely the second half of the fortnight. fucking Amal?!?"). earned him his diving license The gap between superb and Best Teenage Coming Out (of the muff variety). When was hideously terrible seemed wider Film (Male): Get Real Intense the last time you saw an acade at the VIFF 1 999 than in previ my award nominee with his ous years, but despite my dis this British comedy the edge face firmly planted in the shrub appearing fortitude, I was able over the American, '80s-era bery? to catch some really great flicks. Edge of Seventeen. If they could Best Sequel Made 15 Years In the list-making, award-giving have refrained from turning up Later Gregory's Two Girls the schmaltzy score every time Despite the misguided additi* belov itofn the boys smooched! of c •r-blov s fro sonal 1 8th Annual VIFF Awards, Most Beautiful Film: the master of the low-key, Bill which were presented in absen Building Heaven, Forsyth's follow-up to one of the tia at a special gala to which, Remembering Earth: 1980s' best coming-of-age in a reciprocal invitation policy, Confessions of a Fallen comedies delivers enough gen the festival's representatives Architect A Canadian film uine guffaws to make the retred LIVING CELLULOID were not asked. (Okay, so I was essay that washes over you in a worthwhile. the only one there. But it was a glei lages, Best Reason to Kill the IN PERSON FILMMAKERVPERFORMANCES ATTHE BLINDING LIGHT!! T great party.) caressing poetry and engaging Digital Revolution Now, While Most Disturbing (in a Good exposition. (Check out the fea We Still Can The Book That THE MULTIPLEX GRAND: PHASE IV Way): Little Tony I couldn't ture interview with director Wrote Itself A seemingly tal say which was more squirm- Oliver Hockenhull in this issue.) entless director/writer/actor IUO: MATT MCCORMICK + VANESSA RENWICK inducing in this tale of sanctioned Most Convincing Reason to directs himself in his own script NY/GERMAN FILMMAKER CASPAR STRACKE Thank Your Lucky Stars: Thug about a talentless writer who rural Holland — the inky-black Life in DC From its opening tries to film his really bad book. GERMAN FILMMAKER MICHAEL BRYNNTRUP humour or the food the charac statement that 50% of all black The result? A really bad movie. men aged 18-35 in The relative cheapness of digi SEATTLE'S EMERALD REELS SUPERS LOUNGE ters regularly imbibed. (Horsemeat sausages anyone?) Washington, DC are in prison, tal made it all possible. Most Disturbing (in a Bad on parole, or waiting for trial, Programmer Most In Need Way): Howling for God this American documentary hits of a Step-Ladder (In Order To hard about fhe chances afford Descend from His Ivory Tower): 11/2-3 C RlSPIN GLOV LK IN THE RKLt Watching people stick quarter- inch-thick barbecue skewers ed a young African-American Tony Rayns [Dragons and KID • 11/ 4 THE MULTI LEX ]RAND • 11 through their cheeks and male by today's society. Tigers Asian Films Series) 5-7 HEA 11 METAL P RKIN G LOT AND tongues may pull your ripcord, Best Kick-ass-and-who-cares- I've said it before. I've heard it BEYOND 11/9-10 PLO TNICK S KIC -ASS but I didn't find enough real about-the-rest John Woo from other filmgoers. I've felt it INDUSTR ALS • 11/1 -14 VANCO UVEh insight into the dervishes' tradi- Homage: Nowhere to Hide. in my sagging eyelids while sit UNDERGR OUND FILM F ESTIV AL • 1/16 The lack of martial arts films on ting through many of the films 17 101 BEST AN D WORST TV endurable. this year's program was almost he's programmed. Mr. Rayns, COMMER IALS • 11/18 BY08 • 11/1 9 THE Best Holocaust Comedy: made up for with this ultra-styl while s sable INCREDIB LY STRANGE WORL D OF FRAN K Train of Life Is this the genre ish Korean effort by Lee Myung- fa: ing, tun, engaging MOORE • 11/20 PORT LAND S DYN AMIC of the new millennium? This Se. The silent-but-deadly movies, often does not. Maybe DUO • 1 /21 CASPAR STRA KE • 11/23 French/Romanian story about performance by Korean super he just gets more out of a film MICHAEL BRYNNTRU P • 11/24 THE the self-deportation of a 1941 star Ahn Sung-Ki is mesmeriz than the rest of us chumps, but I SECRET IFE OF MR. X • 11/25 NEW Jewish village is as full of laughs ing. have learned from hard experi (CINE)WO RKS • 11/26 '27 X -RAY S PECS and pathos as last year's Life Is Best Excuse Not to Go Out ence that unless the synopsis • 11/30 -12/1 RAD CAL REMA KES Beautiful, without the central After Dark: Ultraviolet This says, "wildly popular in its SHULIE + WHAT FAROC 1 TALGH T • 12/2 TOHmiEnEHin: personality to draw criticism vampire conspiracy series had native country" or "winner of a SUPERHE RO SHORTS • 12 3 EME RALD from the naysayers. Excellent better not be over. Query to zillion major awards," just don't REELS SU PER 8 LOUNG E • 1 2/4-5 TEVE ISSUBXHHLT performances and the right com Festival Programmers/Channel bother. REINKE'S 100 VIDEOS bination of wonder and farce I Productions: Are parts 7-1 2 in Tony Rayns Award for made this film compelling the Drks? 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Self Portrait Janis Wa the Collapse CD. specifically, everything sounds I shouldn't slag these boys and U2. The first in this series of com Scott: It's all slick and like bad emo. Where have all their thoughtful musings on "sti pilations was good clean Valley, CA, Ric Ocasek- the pop 7"s gotten to? Are fled emotions" and "keepsakes" pop/fuzz fun. This release has 95066) filled. I still cutesy bands and those kids that and a world that is "absurd"; it decided to be the "file under: EUR- like the harmonies just not into might hurt their feelings. Oh, I i/math rock" volume. Damn, E K A (TVT, 23 E. 4th the vinyl scene? Do they not am feeling mean today. am fighting a losing battle, it FARM'S St., New York, understand what sems Anyways, four bands "Quinson- NY, 10003) they are doing to all of us wh contribute to this release, and V I Z A - would rather hear something give you a quick low- NOIR's self-titled that rhymes than something smgle is super that is supposed to [r good! 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FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT BARBARA (EDITOR) OR ROB (ART DIRECTOR) AT $22-3017 EXT. 3 OR EMAIL [email protected] UP YOUR ASS WITH A CAN OF GAS OUT YOUR NOSE WITH A RUBBER HOSE stage, Kristin Hersh is indefinable: half Japanese Bhuto dancer, half Rock Star. It comes out in the way oie; doesn' t blink while singing, the way she stares ou unmoving eyes, over the heads of her seated audience. It comes out in the way she is alone, completely It comes out in how, after being whip-smacked by her songs, shi becomes chatty and friendly between them. It comes oul the way her lips and eyes change and pout while she looks at her guitar — a look that seems to say "I've been doing this for 15 years, I'm still selling half-filled rooms, but, i okay. This is what I do." She becomes one of her own songs "Each song is like trying to define a pe Songs are like people," she says to me, pre-show, in a and empty Starfish Room. "It's hard to define them. I dc know what each of my songs mean, it just has to be with those words. I have to feel like the truth is coming out of
Off-stage she is like quiet sparkles, relaxed and v. Her kids explore the empty club; she watches them curiously, carefully, but still lays all her attention on me. Both Ryder, the middle child, and Wyatt, the youngest, seem to have her mouth and her face — round and porcelain, but al "Dylan's thirteen, he's in school, with his :ustody of him because I was in a band But the surfer, I don't know if that is better. He spends as i us. He understands the situation." The other two travel with Kristin, who says, "I'm •>nly teacher they know, which is fine while they are both o long division, well, then its going to be a problem." I laugh with her. "They've done rr their growing up on tour busses and travelling." I can see the touring child in both of them. Ryder helps with the set-up and later that night, before the show, I see Kristin w Wyatt to the back of the house. He looks around c varied people while she focuses on getting him stage, backstage. They all travel in a large jeep, the equipment trailed behind them in a U-Haul. The family is an extended road trip. Swiss Family Rockstar, of sorts. "Financially, tours are a nightmare. The only rc I am not with my band [Throwing Muses] now is purely il. It broke our hearts [that] we couldn't be together." during one of her encores, an audience member yells "I hoped you'd be here with a bigger band." Kristin
In her veteran touring and singing worked with many labels and people. In Europe, always been with 4AD, but in North America, she's been with both 4AD, her own Throwing Music, and Si illy great people who worked with the major labels, you know, the ones who listen to really great music in their office, and then go sell millions of dollar of really terrible music the rest of the time. And they good to us, they just didn't publicise us." I ask who her target audience is, and shi responds by telling me that The Village Voice had told its readers to go see a Kristin Hersh show, if not purely to see the wide range of people she attracts. This is an offhanded compliment she's happy to accept. want to say, 'market us to everyone 1 2-year-olds,' but you can't do that ake money marketing good music, they know that. So many bands are reaching for that one single, that one hit I make them with everyone. But once they get there, that' then they're finished. That's one of the Lilith Fair for so many years, too. Besides, why introduce such Gender Speak into your songs if it's not already there as a theme?" We both laugh at Jewel's gend< speak, or lack thereof. She sips herbal tea, and Wyatt toddles over, he has ice-cream in his hair. Back on stage, she sings her cryptic songs, songs that are like the many varied people in the room, each on- hard to define. One beautiful boy sitting at the front of I stage, alone, cries during "Heaven" and I suddenly < decide who moves me more, he or Kristin. I am mesm by his honesty and her honesty and stay, transfixe tears, until Kristin finishes the song, breaking the rip-tide with her story of exploding Swedish fish, a delicacy. Oh, those crazy Swedes.) • Confessions of an Unrepentant Intellectual:
An Interview with Oliver Hockenhull by Tania Bolskaya
As an SFU student in the 1980s, Oliver DiSCORDER: What were your inspirations screening A\ Hockenhull came to film through a bit of for this particular film? that they found the work full of theory. AmJLfriendly advice Immersed in a heady Oliver Hockenhull: There's actually a long Actually I've read all of that stuff, but I use it as quality M %m/x of politics, sociology, philosophy, history of filmmakers who explore issues in a film manure I let things grow out of it, let the poetry or of the image, it makes a and communications, it was suggested that he add essay form. This isn't really a documentary, it's my own imagination grow out of it. And it's not difference. For this project, it was no bigger an art to his repertoire as a means of not just really a film essay, and that tradition goes back to heavily theory-oriented. Someone who may be than your [Walkman-sized] tape recorder, the thinking but doing. Since I988's Determinations, a someone like Dziga Vertov. More recently, [it could unfamiliar with architectural theory or French theory camera that I shot with. It allowed me to travel very multi-dimensional exploration of the Squamish Five, be compared to the work of] someone like Chris or deconstructionist theory [can still enjoy my work]. easily and also it allowed a much greater intimacy Hockenhull has been both thinking and doing — Marker, who deals with the relationship between Right now there's a big market for the with the material and with myself. It's not really creating film essays which challenge audiences to the subject matter and the imagination, so that it documentary, but mostly the kind of required to have a crew. It's a completely different enter and explore their complex topics His most becomes a living engagement with the subject documentary you can watch on TV at 9 way of thinking about the world itself, too. For me recent work, Building Heaven, Remembering Earth: matter One of the problems that we find with pm, like Biography. How do you see your it really has to do with the transformative Confessions of a Fallen Architect, was selected for general media is that it is supposedly factual, but film fitting into... capabilities of the digital medium because it's the Documentary competition at this year's it's not actually a living thing. You're not dealing ...the marketplace? purely a code. That makes you accept the Vancouver International Film Festival and given the with a reflection on problems or questions or issues. Into the marketplace but also into people's prominence today of the transformative quality of honour of three screenings in the festival fortnight. I think that my work is interested in doing that all lives? the medium. McLuhan said that when a new Building Heaven, Remembering Earth it, the time I think it's very important fo have the I think it was Tom Wolfe, or Norman Mailer, who medium comes into being, people use if in however, not a documentary. Neither is it a beauty of life and be part of the answer to any said, 'Television has gotten to the point where it's traditional ways. The big argument in Constructivism narrative or fictional film. It falls into a special question. We can see that in the tradition of the scraping the top of the barrel.' There's so much in the Russians was that people were using cinema category reserved for the works of filmmakers who written essay as well, where there is the issue and space out there, they're looking. I'm not saying that as if it were theatre. Well, it's not theatre. You don't are determined lo remain unbound by the then there is contemplation of the issue from a it's going to sell everywhere, but I think it'll get have to rely on the confines of theatre to make i. As with n personal viewpoint. Then that personal viewpoint shown on Finnish TV or French TV or Bravo. I do movies. The jump cut was done in 1918 by the expands to a transpersonal viewpoint as well. films that realize their potential as completely think it's still a hard sell on these kind of works that Constructivists. Hollywood finds it even difficult now ...where the driest essay is the one which cinematic experiences, this film is difficult to are a little more demanding on people. What to accept [jump cuts] in a film, that you can play just disseminates information. It's such a describe. It is not, like most narrative films, a novel happened was that this film was mostly funded by with time. The digital is even more open to purely complex film, there are so many elements told through moving pictures. Nor is it, like many the Canada Council. The Canada Council is a jury interpretive qualities. The tools of transforming an — you have the narrative, you have documentaries, a textbook illustrated with dramatic process, and it's people I don't know. These people image are accessible now to anybody with a actors, you have distinctive visuals. Before action and oral storytelling. Il is part travelogue, as may be artists but they're also citizens. They're also $10,000 computer. That's still a hell of a lot less you put the film together, how much was Hockenhull visits great architectural works of just regular people who go to school, who have than it was five years ago, and it will be a lot less in planned, how much did you find along Europe, North America and India, and provides a mothers and sisters and brothers who own gas a couple more years. Special effects are much more the way? travel diary voice-over There is a dramatic structure stations. They're the ones who say, 'Yes, we think easily available. in which fictional characters interact with the I think that it's important to realise that this kind of this is of value. We want to allow people to see There was a big shift in tone when your travelling Hockenhull. Architectural theory is film is process-oriented, so there is an immediacy another way of seeing the world.' Luckily in film moves from the West to the East. For Canada there is still that venue available. discussed, as is the social well-being of the planet. with the material, but that immediacy is founded on me it was a shift from solids and This film was shot completely in digital. However, the itemization of these parts cannot a long research period. My research may take me inanimates to a living, breathing world. Is What has digital meant for you? recreate the visual, aural, intellectual whole. During a year and half before I shoot. I'm really doing a lot that something you wanted to express to It's really great in a certain way. I'm traditionally a the festival, I spoke with Hockenhull about his work of reading, I'm doing a lot of thinking about these the audience? and his experiences as a Canadian film essayist. filmmaker, I like to work in film because of the issues and reflecting. Someone mentioned at one There is a shift, but that shift is based on a
12 November 99 "Electronic man has to train his perceptions in a relation to a total environment that includes all previous cultures — simultaneously." Marshall McLuhan
questioning of the Western traditions. Not to deny that in the history of the Western traditions there is a continuum of referencing of the eternal, but in the East it's quite prominent. The eternal is making always there. There's a history of this kind of quest. narrative It was done very much by European intellectuals films? after World War II. People often, especially in To be honest, it's not. My peers are North America, don't recognize the importance of supportive, but the climate itself is not WWII to the intellectual heritage of the West. Those particularly supportive. You feel that as an artist, moments of Auschwitz and Hiroshima are moments here in North America, and especially on the west of fantastic horror of what civilization could create. coast, you're not really respected like you would Germany, being one of the great homes of Western be in Europe, as an example. There's a complete culture, creating a civilization that would allow acceptance of that. It's not just for young kids. [The these things to happen, a lot of Western attitude,] 'Oh well, this is just a phase,' [is] a little intellectuals, like Romain Rolans and Herman Hesse bit hard to take sometimes. Probably only because that it once had. That's a srted ggoin g , 'What I've had the experience where it's not like that. problem about Vancouver, for the matter here? There must be a seed in Western Do you think that's because of the focus it will rejuvenate itself again. culture that's problematic' I think we're still dealing in North America on the commercial and with that. We live in a society that rarely senses on marketable things as opposed to the that as being the foundation of the society. intellectual and artistic for their own Building Heaven, Remembering Earth: Progressivism. We're always trying to sake? Confessions of a Fallen Architect has recently been move forward, away from where we It also has to do with the lack of Ii ng culture, the accepted for the International Competition of the Graz lack of integration between socic began. consciousness Biennial on Media + Architecture. Hopefully, the film will Away from origin, too, away from time itself. We and political consciousness make a regular-run return to Vancouver screens, but it is try to speed up time so that we don't experience the e continuum, probably more likely that Canadians will next have the profundity of time. There's a real fracture within our iety between opportunity to experience its beauty and engaging com Do you prefer to work out of Vancouver, those people who are creative, plexity on the small screen, via video or television. If there and the Canadian film climate? Is it creative mind, and those people who are basically are any true minds in Canadian film distribution, we'll friendly to a person like yourself who is functionaries. You don't have that relationship be scraping the top of the barrel soon. • not making 'Hollywood North' films, not between politics and culture. I love and respect this t3 THE Y O U T ARE STILL SONIC by Mo Biggsley and Luke Meat
ou have to wonder about the kids these electric guitar from mom at the age of 10, irritating amusicality of Borges' "songs" was days, with the musical role models that Borges soon discovered he had a knack for strangely poetic. Soothing? Maybe not As Y are hitting the charts, one might noise "At first it was all I knew how to do Borges puts it, "My music isn't supposed to be reasonably question whether the glint in every and I really didn't know that there was relaxing, and if anyone feels that way, they young musician's eyes is fueled by their anyone else doing this," he says "Then I just. . shouldn't." Couldn't have put it better fervent desire to be the next member of found out there was a whole genre " Living in myself. BoyZone. Since witnessing Jon Borges' ear- a small town with virtually no noise music Describing his experience of that splitting performance at the Vancouver Little scene, the Internet became an invaluable tool night, Borges claimed, "It was really great. I Theatre on September 25th, I am convinced for finding out about other noise performers didn't really pay attention to that the youth of today (or at least a select One such act, Canadian Nihilist Spasm Band, the audience during my set." Only his second few) will furnish the next millennium with introduced him to the "No Music Festival," a live public performance, it was perhaps less alternatives to top 40 drivel London, Ontario avant-garde carnival of sonic daunting than his first, where he shared the Jon Borges is a 14-year old Tulare, delights hosted by the aforementioned bill with some of his heroes, an event he CA native who's heading up the junior legends, where Borges managed to wrangle 'physically draining " Borges is leagues of an army lead by the likes of Jim himself a spot beside greats like .lific O'Rourke and Glen Borbetomagus, O'Rourke, Solmania, and apes t* . His latest Branca. After Unclean Wiener •corded on a four-trc Thanks to his stunning performance, 3 fascinatingly dense oduct local n his atrons who invited him up to play Behind this prodigious youth lies the Vancouver last month He played the supporting love of an unusually open-minded Vancouver Little Theatre (one of the person, Borges' mother Elizabeth White. Few moms would put up with, let alone encourage, a budding noise musician. White, who schools Borges at home, even undertook the five-day drive from California to Ontario to bring her son to the No Music Festival, a drive during which Borges turned fourteen. Far beyond tolerating Jon's music, White takes great pride in it, and even listens to many of the same bands as her son (her Hospital's gripping favorite is Sonic Youth). All the same, Jon's nd down, daily living-room practice is capped at 9 PM. Borges leapt up rule- and « confidently, strapped on kids have bedtimes. his Stratocaster, and exploded For the moment, Borges f immediately into spastic head back home and "stop for a whili ." With thrashing musical tirade was a sonic assault, the energy he dispenses at his shows it's not jarring even through the complimentary surprising that he needs a rest. Let's j it's not for too long. Jon Borges can be contacted by e-mail at door. Low, oscillating frequencies dueled with
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Lou Rhodes of Lamb is incredible, spilling health and beauty like a fucking waterfall. Bobby Shea about as a response to PC or femi and I sat across from her in the Upper 'Nar, viewpoints, and thi grilling her about sex, feminism, joy ...oh yeah, publications, such as Loaded magazine, that with the opportunity. are basically putting tits back in men's Exactly, if you're in a band, more likely for thi magazines and saying it's okay now, it's all cool boys than the girls, but you could sleep with • Lou: 'Post-feminism' is about reclaiming what's and trendy. different person every night. You womanly. Feminism was a movement that And some women want their tits in basically just take your pick. needed to happen, but a lot of it seemed to be there! Do you think it's the same for girls as it concentrated on denying what was womanly: When it started, I thought it never would take is for guys on tours? Do you ever get the stereotypical feminism, the dungaree- ich about as well. off. Now it's huge. It sells more copies than The guys hitting on you after the show? wearing short hair vibe, which is a stereotype. It's definitely a jazz tradition, not a Face. And it's just tits and football, yet in the Not really, but then I don't go looking for it. And DiSCORDER: Instead of trying to white European tradition. current climate in the UK, that seems cool. The it's a very different thing. I'm not the only girl reinterpret what it means to be sexual But it's seeing that vulnerability and strength... 'girl power' was the response to the new lad on this tour, my best friend is along to look after or vulnerable, it was being shut out. ...reinterpreting vulnerability in a thing, but for me, neither is the path to go down, my baby. But since the band was started, I had It's important that women are appreciated for positive sense. neither is a response to feminism. The only way a long experience of being the only woman on what we're all about, and the important work for the sexes to move forward is for greater tour, and it does interest me how different it is, A lot of the times our music is misinterpreted as to be done on that score is to give value to what understanding between the two, rather than this the experience is very different for men and being dark, partly from the minor keys we use is womanly. For so long what was womanly was complete battle. The lads go down to the pub on women. The main difference for me is that I'm a sometimes. There's been a lot of research done negative: woman was the moon, man was the a Friday night, the girls go down there too, and monogamist anyway, I've never been into music in that certain keys evoke certain sun. We're the dark side, the other side, and they sit in different crowds and poke fun at each promiscuous. I equate love and sex too much, I emotions in people, and this quite often the weak side. other and laugh really loud. That's the epitome can't detach the two things, so I don't go happens when people listen to our music. For Yet the moon can be very bright! of the battle of the sexes... looking. The boys could quite easily step out into me, true joy is always tinged with sadness, and Women's vulnerability is their strength, and Or the gulf between the sexes! the audience after the show and find a different this is why our music may do this to people. I women's softness and concentration on emotion I don't go for that, I don't think a battle is the girl every night, and often have done this to don't want to write happy happy throwaway is strength rather than a weakness. I come from right way to move forward. various degrees. I'm sure I could do that too if I pop, so it's kind of getting the balance. I was a country where a woman ruled for many years, Do any of these dynamics play in your was that way inclined, but since the culture of holding my son, listening to this Gershwin track, yet this was a woman who just took on male musical relationship with Andy? You rock and roll has been such a male culture, we and it was almost like Herbie Hancock knew values; she could make anyone ashamed to be have a yin and a yang in Lamb: one don't ever seem to see male groupies. I usually what I was thinking. It [may] only be a split guy, one girl. get men coming up and being a lot more second, but it's a moment where various things They're not going to let a woman be in spiritual with me than sexual. I think they must fuse and make a moment absolutely perfect. It's In another interview, we were talking about the power unless she's going to subscribe be responding to the lyrics. I get a lot of boys so fleeting, but that's why it's tinged with sexuality and a spiritual element of when you to those values, unless she'll support a coming and telling me about their girlfriends — sadness — you know it's going to be over really meet someone, and even if you are already in a war-faring, capitalistic world. Do you which is really quite lovely — and saying things quickly. I felt, 'My god, I'm so happy with my relationship, there can be a connection of some think we are in an actual post-feminist like, 'Oh, "Gorecki" is our song." That's really son, but one day he's going to grow up and I sort, how do you deal with that? Andy said a time, in that feminism 'worked' in wicked. won't be able to hold him like this and yet I'll be funny thing, he said, 'Lou is the only woman that whatever it was supposed to really proud, as he'll be a big man.' This is what I'm really close to that I haven't slept with,' and accomplish, and now we can all be in Do you find it harder to express we try to sum up in our music: these he said that this has taught him a lot. He's 'post'? happiness than sadness through your combinations of things, the poignancy rather younger than I am, and he's always been a real I use it in a kind of ironic sort of way, since we music? than a happy happy joy thing. I cry from joy hedonist. He's always had a really strong belief are so obsessed with putting labels on things. I think there is a climate presently where it's and sadness. I cry far too often! • that he should never not do anything, he's Yes, we are definitely in a post-feminism phase uncool to be happy, especially in youth culture, pushed the barriers in his life with everything — now, and there have been many bad things that and in music in general. For me, I don't know if drugs, sex, everything — and really feels that have happened: this whob 'girl power' thing, I I'm just a freak, but I do experience joy most he had to do this to be free. His idea of freedom Hnn't.knaw. iLthe.wholfi ^pica Girls thing has days. It might just be a tiny thing, so small that is that you must transgress all those barriers. maybe other people just aren't noticing. happei Now he has come to an equilibrium: he's with Betty Carter is my favourite jazz Yes, the Spice Girls became huge over somebody that he loves very much, and he's vocalist, and your style is evocative of here. England has reputation as come to the conclusion that he doesn't have to hers. You also remind me of other jazz being quite a frigid country. Do you be promiscuous in order to be free. He suddenly vocalists: you evoke a bit of Billie think that frigidity ii hat facilitates realized that, as he put it, he's been spilling too Holiday, or even Jimmy Scott. Do you things like the Spice Girls? much of his chi around, and that this was garner a lot of comparisons with jazz We h( England, there's a actually doing him more harm than good. I vocalists? weird division between thj don't think it's a very soul-enriching way of life, Yes, I'm very much into the chanteuse style, a a resurgence of ulture which came at the end of the day. I've never done it, so I strong woman thing. That's what I love, strong don't know, but sleeping with a different person like Billie Holiday and Nil every other night. who express such passion and emotion ftour you're probably provided strong yet vulnerable way, that's what I'ri
15 H^S£__0_ s Labradford discs begin to revolve, they don't room finished rumbling with the final notes of "S," talk about the evolution of Labradford's music. within the music." This digital marriage of Adissolve their surrounding silence — they Carter Brown (keyboards), Mark Robinson (guitar, Chronologically speaking, our convenience also fit well into Labradford's ethic of reveal that silence never really existed to begin vocals), and Robert Donne (bass guitar) suddenly discussion started dead centre; the group's sonic experimentation. In addition to enhancing the with. As the time codes advance, Labradford draws became animate and filed off the stage. They even eponymous third album seemed an obvious point to structure of live songs by providing reliably the not-sounds of open windows, street noise answered a few nervously placed questions begin, as Labradford (1996) is a pivotal point in recurring parts, sampling technology allowed the filtering into the listening room, air moving, barely- concerning the tuning stability of the oscillators on the band's discography. The disc marks an about- group to use a wide range of unusual sounds to heard words rising from pedestrian traffic, their Memorymoog synthesizer. Bingo. Nothing like face from the strictly analogue-electronic approach build their rhythmic accompaniment. Mi media breathing, and a beating heart around the dense a shared obsession to break the ice... to instrumentation on Prazision and A Stable naranja (1997) in particular is characterised by its tracks on Prazision (1993) and A Stable Reference Although tired (and, initiolly, looking Reference. On the one hand, this album was the use of chiming, shrieking analogue synthesizer (1995). The early recordings of the Richmond, VA slightly hunted) they were relaxed, approachable, first record to incorporate high-tech digital gear like emanations, and percussive musique concrete ensemble specialise in amplifying the dark tones in and friendly folks. Mark explained that Labradford samplers qnd sequencers into Labradford's set-up; components as foundations for rhythm parts. On background noise, especially that of urban organic (and his side project, Pan American) had been on on the other, the disc also inaugurated traditional this album, Labradford blends these programmed activity, crafting it into a musical vortex that the tour in Europe in the spring playing a string of sold- studio instruments, including a string section and beats with spaghetti-western guitar, silky-smooth listener can almost touch. Labradford's first two out performances billed as "The Second Labradford conventional keyboards such as piano and Rhodes tones, and bass twangs that border on the albums use a battery of analogue keyboards, Festival of Drifting." Since then, they had been on Hammond organ. The shift in production values baritone. The resulting mixture of soothing electric stringed instruments, and stomp boxes to the road in North America and were just starting to was also accompanied by a change in instrumentation and frenetic sequencer mojo create an imposing induction into a musical space feel the effects of a marathon trek across middle compositional style; as Carter points out, the creates an insistent dynamic unique fo the group's that suspends, dissects, and transforms the listener's America's interstates. The band agreed that their introduction of these new elements jnto the group's discography. Mi media naranja exemplifies understanding of aural landscapes. road-weariness stemmed from shifting major urban sound was a deliberate but natural progression that Labradford's commitment to making each new Given their sub-verbal approach to fhe centres rapidly. Passing through industrial accompanied Labradford's growth as songwriters. album a distinct entity, not only in terms of song creation of sound, perhaps it's not surprising that wastelands like Gary, IN (the murder capital of According to Mark, the band's new writing, but of atmosphere and sonic perspective. Labradford's members have a reputation of being, America, on the outskirts of Chicago) that surround direction was not only prompted by curiosity, The close correlation between the band's well, less than talkative about their art. The band's those metropolitan hives is typical of this recurring restlessness, and an evolving aesthetic, but by the choice of instruments and the development of their soundcheck for their September 21 st show at the landscape. In the dim black light of DV8, we took demands of their live show. The addition of music, then, suggests a kind of symbiosis between venerable Starfish Room certainly didn't seem like turns relating our experiences of this kind of samplers to the analogue arsenal "was Bobby's the two components of musical production. Carter the prologue for a relaxed chat: every corner of borderland. The dry, shock-masking chuckles that idea," he explains; "Digital gear was a way to free downplays the connection, however, and focuses the empty venue was haunted with sounds the various misadventures drew seemed to lift the us on stage. The early shows would be very tense instead on how Labradford's aesthetics fit within generated by the three dimly-lit, gaunt figures on road dust and lack of sleep, helping to regain some experiences, with us staring across at one another their current stages of perception. Referring to the stage, magnifying the isolation of the non-band flagging appetites. After a quick bite, a detour into trying to keep time. Samplers allowed us to relax liner notes on Prazision (which listed many of the members milling about the club. On the stage, a corner shop to snag a Buy & Sell (an and concentrate on other things." Bobby adds that obscure vintage synths used on the disc, including Labradford seemed unapproachable and immobile unshakeable habit of Carter's), and a (brief) his interest in sampling provided him with "the beauties like the Roland Vocoder Plus and Moog's as they hunched over their instruments, glaring at flirtation with a cheap Polymoog synthesiser opportunity to bring something new to the group, 1 8-oscillator Goliath, the Memorymoog), Carter the panels of flashing points of light. But, as the discovered therein, we settled into a comfortable and to discover how the technology would work describes the relationship with his gear at that point NUT*
16 November 99 as a reflection of his early influences. Carter cites Labradford's relationship with the tools in its sound- atmosphere that the band envisions for each the venue gave "3" at the Festival of Drifting. On E the excesses of the prog-rock era — "You know, forge. Mark suggests that the group made a album. Luxo So, the piece fits in beautifully with the tenor of the desire to have a stack of eight keyboards conscious effort to "reduce sound to its basic This process has paralleled Labradford's the album, and stands as a haunting bridge around you" — as an impulse acquired during his elements," and as far as his own instrument was changing relationship with the recording studio between the first and second movement of the formative musical years that carried over into his concerned, "to strive to be really comfortable with (currently Sound of Music in Richmond, VA with album; live, it sounded like a farewell that could current project. Although he feels that the band has maybe one or two sounds." The stark tones that engineer John Morand), which has become break a heart in two. (mostly) weaned itself off of these immoderate Mark discovered in this pursuit combine with the increasingly important to the composition "3" did not appear in Labradford's edgy tendencies, Carter remains an unabashed Rick resonant vibrations of Bobby's bass guitar and procedure. As an example, Carter refers to the and powerful show at the Starfish Room, but an Wakeman and Keith Emerson fan. Mark believes Carter's lush keyboard and string arrangements to creation of "3," an achingly beautiful piece that unexpected appearance by (fellow Kranky artists) that the almost naive reverence for innovation create devastating suites of urban psalms, so features a "bridge" consisting of a freight elevator Godspeed You Black Emperor's string section championed by Labradford's moustachioed musical forming the sonic template for the band's recent in grinding ascension: "We needed a transition to added a similarly affecting delight towards the end forebears still persists within the group. "There was direction. complete the two sections," he explains, "and of the set. The night progressed, and as Labradford a real innocence about our early efforts," he As Carter sees it, however, the main recording an elevator as a movement in the piece built up their intense musical tapestries with explains, "a sense of fun and discovery that intent behind Labradford's music remains was something that evolved naturally in the studio." electricity and vibrating strings only to tear them continues to shape the evolution of the band." "expressing and developing a language that's a The decision to keep the arrangement for the piece down again, bleak and sublime cityscapes Given the eerie, brooding quality of product of [their] three personalities, evolving over sparse was also formed at the mixing board, and unfolded and recompressed. Mark, Carter and Labradford's work, Mark's comment might come as time." The group's latest offering, £ Luxo So (1999), Mark states that "the song didn't improve when Bobby recreate their Pan-American travels as they a bit of a surprise. But not entirely. Listening to their further refines their dynamic and marks another more instruments were added, so we kept it solo." positioned themselves over their instruments on their discs, his observation in mind, emphasises the important step in the cultivation of this This left Carter's delicate piano refrain and rich current terminal stage. Their fatigue vanished into a dimension of gentleness, even guilelessness, buried communication. Developing fhe musical interaction string arrangement (featuring violinist Chris well of concentration, their eyes travelling invisibly within the architecture of urgency that supports that Carter speaks of seems to have been enhanced Johnston, who has played on each of their albums over every inch of every extreme of ugliness and many Labradford tracks. The innocence and (paradoxically, perhaps) by successively reducing since Labradford) to stand alone, exploring the too splendor that urban North America imposes. discovery that Mark describes is more easily heard their linguistic communication. E Luxo So is (apart often hidden potential of solitude. Labradford does not direct the listener away from in the later material, though, where delicate tones from EP and compilation releases) Labradford's first When Labradford debuted "3" (minus those city systems, does not drown them out or are given more prominence. The increasing use of entirely instrumental collection, with Mark's the strings) live this Spring in Islington Chapel, blanket over their pulsing substance; rather, the such sounds is characteristic of the Zen-ish attitude whispery announcements and sharp pictorial lyrics London at the Second Labradford Festival of group brings the intricate gaud, grandeur, and that band has adopted towards its gear, which noticeably absent. The disc also takes the band's Drifting, the piece concluded the band's set. One tragedy of metropolitics more sharply into focus. concentrates on getting more musical satisfaction practice of minimizing its song titles to the next by one, the stage lights dimmed and the cavernous The music evolves, playing the listener's sensory from fewer instruments. logical extreme by simply supplying numeric titles, church grew completely dark until all that remained receptors like another instrument, broadcasting the This approach is showcased in the 1 through 6, to the tracks on the disc. Rather than were the plaintive notes sighing out of a grand band's focused vision by heightening awareness. production of their later works, and although the diminishing the fullness of their musical panoramas, piano. When I eventually heard the recorded Labradford crafts the tranquillity and unease of the members see it as a natural progression, the however, Labradford's progressive reductions have version, the presence of strings on of the song unattainable, perfect silence by moving sound into process required definite decisions concerning increased the focus, the specificity, of the captured the absent majesty and resonance that stillness. •
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I really want to me to get my hitch-hiking career new direction, and write music keep it, but when you become a off the ground I admit that if not that appeals to ... I actually godfather you can't just walk for the riot of words the Beats AGNOSTIC FRONT CRASH funky while avoiding sounding don't know The group has around pretending you're cool published, the world of literature Riot, Riot Upstart Crash like a watered-down Get Shorty essentially decided to strip away and telling everyone that you might still be really staid and (Epitaph) (Mo' Funk) soundtrack. Knowing Vancouver, its raw, punked up distortion could have them killed. You have conservative. And I have to This should have been called Vancouver-based Mo' Funk this album may soon haunt the sound in favour of guitar har to be responsible You have to admit that this CD is not a dis "...and OufCome the Posers." Records has teamed up with speakers of a coffeeshop near monies and blending melodies. be mature. You have to play a gusting marketing ploy to cash This album is such a fuckin' Crash in order to show that I suppose this is fine if one likes role in your godchild's life. I am in on beat-fetishism, but a gen that sort of music, but for hard uinely interesting sampling of joke, I thought it was the new west coast Canadians indeed Samuel Kim neither responsible nor mature, core fans who have been listen Jack Kerouac's recordings of Weird Al disc 'cause I couldn't have something to contribute to but my godson is gonna learn a ing to Face to Face for years, himself reading and singing and stop laughing. I mean, they had the world acid jazz scene. It's THE EARTHQUAKE PILLS thing or two from me. I'm gonna this is rotten pie in fhe face. If the goofing around. the gall to write "play it loud, nice to see that Mo' Funk is gain General Happiness teach him about the labour ground has seriously taken a mothafucka" (by the way: moth ing recognition in other coun (Meloydia) I. He's gonna learn that The material here was new direction, I strongly suggest erfucker is the one with the O, tries, and hopefully the label will I'm from Calgary. And while nies suck, cops are recorded in the late '50s and they change their name. The muthafucka has a U) on the disc. help contribute to the movement yes, it is a hotbed of racism and ind scabs should be early '60s, though some poems album actually has ballads, Even worse: when you flip this seeking to foster a Vancouver cattle, there are some cool things thei mpty have additional music recorded namely "Everyone Hates a steaming morsel of fetid dung dance music scene worth talking about it. The music scene, for heads with picket last year and composed by the Know-it-All" and "Nearly over, you're informed (in big, example. Suprisingly, few gonna grow up proud to be a likes of John Medeski and Impossible" — by far the slowest bold letters, no less) that it was Crash pull off a number of Calgary bands ever play here, member of the working class. David Amram Tom Waits song the punk rock world could produced by none other than tight grooves and beats while causing Vancouverites tp ponder And this CD is gonna get him and Primus also do a turn that have possibly produced. Punk Lars Frederiksen, the silly-haired dipping their hands in various whether there is more to Calgary started. Twenty-seven tracks of is part tribute and part original rockers will be slow-dancing clown from MTV teen-cheese sen genres related to the than just Chixdiggit and Union-friendly goodness (union- Kerouac. The longest unaccom with their boyfriends to this one. sations Rancid. The worst part, In like Heuvos Rancheros Yes, my made, of course) for the little panied reading is from On The And the lyrics on this album are however, is that the first track on "Steppin' on Lemons," with its children, there is: the demons. Songs so good, they'll Road, and chronicles a night way too sophisticated. Just com this plate of tripe is pretty A-OK. walking basslines, one can EarthQuake Pills, comprised kick Sharon, Lois and wifh Neal Cassady (Dean pare them to the ones on the Big It's quick, fairly heavy, and has sense the band's respect for the of ex-Wagbeard singer/song Bram's Skidamarinky Dinky Moriarty) in a San Francisco Choice ahum oi 1995, and fhe neat words about asshole cops. jazz tradition. "Nick's Kick" gets writer/guitarist Chris Templeton, Dink asses all the way down the jazz club. It's pretty captivating, difference will be painfully obvi But the rest of this trash is char closer to the funk with its snappy Steve Elashuk on bass, classi block. The tiny terrors'll be run and nice to hear Kerouac read ous. The intensity of the music acteristic of the disease that's cal/art/brilliant geek Kara Keith ning around the house singing ing himself rather than someone clarinets and Rhodes pianos, has decreased to about one-half ravaged the punk/hardcore on keyboard, and drummer "If I had a hammer, I'd hammer else pretentiously fawning over and "Shuffulufogus" has a faux- of that of Big Choice: a song like community for far too long: the Christopher Pike. Their second in the evening." And the histo the text. Kerouac has a great swing feel to it. "Doin' the Dog" "Lost" sounds so radio-friendly, Epitaph curse. I mean, you album, General Happiness, is ry... oh, the history on this disc. voice — smooth and velvety at appears to make an attempt at I'd hate to see what would hap shouldn't buy shit from Epilaugh sort of like the Pixies meets Ella recants stories about going times, hyped and jumpy at oth something like ska, but all I could pen if the record company were anyway because they're a Flock of Seagulls, only totally to IWW meetings, supporting ers. He sounds like such a sweet, do was shrug my shoulders and stupid enough to release it as a bunch of sexist assholes (remem not. More like Wagbeard surfing picket lines, fighting nasty politi sentimental guy singing "Ain't skip to the next track. single. "Maybe Next Time" ber their "ho's, bongs, and on New Wave (more than one cians, etc. Buy this for the little We Got Fun," he should have The recording was complet almost could have been written beer" ad?) but this album reeks member has confessed to loving bastards in your life and maybe, had his own radio show. It's well ed in two days, with probably as by Goo Goo Dolls. The one of the over-produced, way-too- Men Without Hats) A quieter one day, they'll spit in their boss' worth a listen, and not only Beat little overdubbing as possible, track I actually liked is "I Know slick, football-team chorus, album than their first Meloydia eye and say "Thanks to the Ella fans need apply. and so the album successfully What You Are" — this sounds a made-for-white-suburban-geek release Audiodidactiphone Jenkins I grew up with, I captures a live and spontaneous bit more like their earlier punk Anna Friz bullshit that we've all come to (excepting the kickin' thrills of learned about the importance of feel, not unlike a jam session. rock songs. Copy the songs off know and expect from Mr. Brett "Self-Love" and the elated, a united labour front. I joined the While catchy and satisfying if a friend, or download them off KINCAID and the rest of his crew. Guess expansive "Intermission" song) movement, and now our Union you're listening to it at a house the Internet, but don't pay for this Kincaid Plays Super what, kids: punk is dead... and General Happiness is strange is strong enough to SHUT YOU party, on closer inspection record. Save the cash for Big Hawaii hardcore's on it's way out thanks and good. Expect them to be DOWN. We've got our ham you're not going to find anything (Kindercore) to sellouts like Agnostic Front. much louder live. mers, and we're gonna use 'em particularly pioneering about this For all those averse to cute, So fuck Rancid. Fuck Epitaph. Hancunt to tear your fuckin' factory apart. collection of songs (with the Jerome Yang catchy pop, beware Kincaid! Fuck Agnostic Front. Fuck this You will not exploit us any exception of "Meanstreak"), These boys from Athens, GA lame, tame shame of an album longer. Welcome to the strike, which I think is a problem with FACE TO FACE FIVE STYLE (now relocated to New York (and fuck you if you buy it). Play asshole!" Well, maybe that'll many of the acid jazz artists Miniature Portraits City, aspiring cosmopolites that THAT loud, muthafuckas. Ignorance is Bliss happen. Maybe... they are) are on top of that today. With all that said, though, (Ladyluck) (Sub Pop) gibby peach peach, g-baby the album still manages to be Qu'est-ce que c'est? Face to These guys are too skilled for whole pop scene thing. their own good. Listening to this Bandmates Ryan and Dan are record blows me away. There JACK KEROUAC the hard-working men behind are a lot of fun noodlings on this Reads On The Road Kindercore Records, a label Making this world a cleaner, fresher smelling place ... one dread at a time! That's right, kidz, check the ni (Rykodisc) which continually doles out pop- Dolar This "What the hell, isn't he dead tastically stellar records, their man's abilities are astounding. yet?" you wonder. Will this Beat- M Marr/BO/ He can play anything, and play boy fascination never end? It's Kincaid sticks to the safe pop for it well. Not to make out that Bill all been a little nauseating, over mula, ensuring plenty of sing- is the only hot ticket in this band the years, as we resurrect those along opportunities and — he's joined by Jeremy boys over and over again, name toe-tapping choruses. I like it Jacobsen, aka the Lonesome cafes after them, eulogize them when bands convey life in verse- Knotty Boy Oread Shampoo is a herbal shampoo that Organist, and John Herndon, as they die off one by one... all chorus format so perfectly. utilizes the naturally germicidal and anti-bacterial the drummer in, you know, that the while never admitting that all Julie Colero properties of tea tree and rosemary essential oils to help eliminate flakey dandruff and itchy scalp band... The best part about this that "freedom" was a pretty easy conditions! album is that it is so upbeat. These men are happy to be post- For tf»e «vveet«st Siqellli.' dreads y°a rock! So happy, in fact, that in ore reviews on ev«r done smelledHI with their jazz and Latin influ ences, they let the rock back in! h Now available at salons, hemp Julie Colero the next page, "^ stores, and cool places near you. www.knottyboy.com Wholesale Inquires call 250-537-0058 Also look for Knotty Boy Dread Wax to complete you dreadlock exf ELLA JENKINS sucka 21 H^ai£2S® these new interpretations this decade and it comes with which is like complaining about a seminal piece that catapults However, PLU (aka Vicki Bennett] the birth of a son, the result of a dub into an evolving slow-jazz ere's more o' has scattered a number of pieces spare moment shared by found Cobra and Phases Group structure. As you complete the entirely her own amongst others' ing members/life partners Play Voltage in the Milky Night album, and realise that Dub regurgitations, so there is some Laetitia Sadier and Tim Gane. is a lengthy disc with a lengthy Plates Vol.2, a new TCSS album indication that she and her The Internet has been ticking name and is breathtaking that is being done at the infa them reviews remixers are working in a simi- with debate surrounding Cobra Sadier, Gane, and team have mous Basic Channel/Chain and Phases Group... since ended their decade perfectly Reaction pressing plant, the There are some big names before its release. Those who don't love Cobra and mind completes the circle and Phases. . will pretend they did realises the spiral Moore has cre Rhythm and Strength at work on this album: Coil, The majority of this debate Negativland, Boyd Rice stemmed not from the album fen years from now in order to ated. With In Dub Vol I, Moore (Columbia/Sony) Julie Colero Stock, Hausen & Walkman, itself but from a path not taken save face Its place in history is created a dj-friendly dub album You'd think after five years or so Death In June, and Mika after the release of their 1996 that was a reinterpretation of the someone could come up with ME'SHELL NEDGECEOLLO inevitable. Vainio, to name only the most Emperor Tomato Ketchup. There Jamaican dub sound, just as something new Especially some Bitter John Keillor were two ways of hearing this one who burst onto the scene (Maverick) disc, either as airy euro-funk or TWILIGHT CIRCUS SOUND with such originality and Gorgeous, sumptuous, splendid, which involve irily, sample Maurizio and Mike Ink were as densely layered porno panache and yes, very bitter. This album 1 the v 1 of earlier SYSTEM doing the same with analogue Negativland — is often hysteri lounge Stereolab went with the studio gear. Now, Moore rein Alas, no, this is not to be the is so different from Plantation cally funny, and it is sometimes latter route and arrived at terprets Maurizio's Basic case with good old Leftfield Lullabys and Peace Beyond (M) shocking to hear how her remix 1997's Dots and Loops, which Channel/Chain Reaction sound The new album is so much like Passion that at first I wasn't Imagine that you are sitting in an es take this spirit of fun to heart, has been described as over ihe last one I actually had to down. Only for the first, like, 20 Amsterdam Cafe at fhe World nediums — often against their usual natures worked valium disco by some eject it just to check I had not seconds But when the strings Marijuana Finals, that BC has leaving the listener with a con Death In June, for example, a and as inclusive musical Zeitgeist accidentally placed the wrong that comprise the album's pre just won, and that providing spiracy-channel-spiral that any band as moribund as they come, by others. Those in the former CD into my rickety CD player lude, "Adam," drop out and music for the stone-bake afters- true Amsterdam Cafe aficionado manages to squeeze some camp are unhappy with Cobra ession is none other than will much appreciate Again, alas, I had not, this give way to the first piano note humour out from under his arm and Phases Group. Vancouver, BC born and Tobias was indeed the "new" album, of "Fool of Me," I thought the sky band on "Lycra Rally" Third Amsterdam-transplanted Ryan bland and boring in comparison was opening to pour itself down. Admittedly, Emperor Tomato Reich samples ceased to be Moore, aka the brains and con to the amount of electronica that Bitter is obviously about Me'shell Ketchup was a great album. Its VARIOUS ARTISTS transgressive/innovative 'round ductor and general founder of M has sprouted forth since Leftism falling in love and then being simpler bits, such as the bass Deep River of Song — about 1982; nonetheless, the Records, who basically is the hit the stores five years ago denied that love, presumably riff/saxophone ending of Mississippi: Saints and juxtapositions are shocking and Twilight Circus Sound Unfortunately, in such a becuase she cheated on her "Percolator," had a catchiness Sinners successful. Other artists, such as System, and although you developing field where new partner Have you ever loved that was both physically infec (Rounder) Rehberg & Bauer and Mika seem relatively content and at styles and blends of genres and and lost for that reason? This is tious and effortlessly hip Bul it Quite possibly the best CD re- Vainio, distill Bennett's work until peace with the world and all styles are blooming almost every the soundtrack. "Fool of Me" was not a diverse sound. If they release project of all time, the it closely resembles their own general things, when Moore and week, Leftfield has not kept up aches more than Marvin had stuck with this path it would Alan Lomax Collection is an To close this review, I think it Which is sad, as I think they Gaye, while Me'shell's voice have only been a matter of time archive of rare field recordings needs to be said that I don't have so much potential. I, per makes you wetter lhan Michael before Stereolab started sound giant puddle that can do nothing originally made for the Archive know what's more sad: that Coil sonally, don't need another CD Frente ever could. It has just ing like EuroDisney's version of more than try to dazedly com of American Folk Song at the submitted an answering machine featuring reggae vocals over a replaced the Karl Hendrix Sly and the Family Stone prehend the melding dub Library of Congress with the message and got it pressed to break-beat, or another Euro-tech- Trio's "Weekend of Sin" (which A great thing about Stereolab is acoustic beats merging from the intent of preserving the music of disc, or that I enjoyed listening no rebirth in turn replaced Elvis being able to trace their eight- speakers to your ears and taking year crawl from Westernized I don't have time for it And Costello s "I Want You") as my over your mind. of whom never recorded for a Krautrock to a '60s road movie neither should you. Official Anthem of Unrequited One of those days, and label or played outside their Love. The other songs are all soundtrack featuring Gilberto- Anthony Monday Moore makes that sort of music. neighbourhoods. From 1933 to fucking beautiful as well. MARK RIBOT style vocals and Esquivelian Moore's bio is a who's who 1942 Alan Lomax and his Meditating on the timelessness of musical intelligence. The group father John Lomax made LE TIGRE Live Shrek: Tol I Killed of the Vancouver late-'80s music sincerity, loyalty, and beauty and is obviously on top of our over a thousand recordings of Le Tigre Tour God scene: from working with cEvin framing her loss in the biblical decade's revolution in electroni African-American musicians (Mr Lady) (Tzadik) Key, Skinny Puppy et al., story of Adam and Eve, ca, dance music, and dance cul from the American South, I don't think this is meant to be This album, recorded live he's also been the house bassist Me'shell's lyrics are as sparse ture. People who do not Southwest, Haiti and the funny. Kathleen Hanna's latest between '92 and '94 at CBGB's for Netfwerk's Sarah and gorgeous as icicles: "My appreciate Stereolab's chosen Bahamas playing on front band, this time including Sadie and in Japan and Switzerland, McLachlan and has toured and Daddy made no excuse/I way simply want to cap their porches, in juke joints, at the Benning and Johanna Fateman, ain't no Y Los Cubanos Postizos. collaborated with Tippy believe my lies are truth/Why legacy by seeing it self-destruct, local store, wherever. is kinda kooky. Held over from This is Marc Ribot's "Jewish Agogo and Mark Spybey (of won't you eat what you are as did the Prodigy when they the Julie Ruin days are the key Punk Revolutionary." He covers Dead Voices On Air) On the Eventually, Alan Lomax com fed/When I touch myself/1 think decided to become rock stars. boards, samples and wacky everyone from Hendrix to international scene, Moore has piled the material into 12 of only you/And when I touch Stereolab took the Dots and drum beats, but more rock is Hammerstein, but his original been a part of the Netherland's albums, which are now being someone else." My only problem Loops direction further by introduced into this mix The compositions, fhe beautiful cult psychedelic band the released on Rounder. with the album is that Me'shell adding more acoustic instru strong, simplistic guitar parts "Requiem For What's His Legendary Pink Dots for the Mississippi: Saints and Sinners only lists the names of her musi ments and recording with a work well with Kathleen's grat Name" and the lyrically superi last 10 years and played bass is the companion installment to cians, not specifying which more live sound. The group has ing voice, but her message often or title track, are where it's at. for Muslimgauze and Single Mississippi: the Blues Lineage, tracks they're on and what instru also learned to enjoy dissonance gets garbled behind the music Ribot's guitar work is original Gun Theory, among many oth- and highlights folk traditions ments they use, so I have no way again, as in their 1993 Transient The first half of this album has a and his vocals are either lazy like work songs from the farms, of knowing whose incredible Random Noise Bursts with lot of rants and chants, while the and cynical or loud and idiotic. With this sort of musicality prisons, riverboats and levee voice is singing with her on Announcements. Few ensembles second half takes a more laid- Produced by John Zorn and behind him, it is no wonder that camps, songs adopted from "Wasted Time." If anybody finds will include string arrangements, back, electronic route. After released on Tzadik Records, this his most recent dub project, white Anglo folk music, early out, contact me at this paper Or theremin, and a cacophonous, struggling through "Hot Topic" (a album (although Ribot yells in his Horsie, is the sort of listen that blues, and spirituals. look for me at Me'shell's upcom rock guitar meltdown in the who's who of women who have own defense, "Keep away from sucks you in prima facie and These are rural recordings, ing show at the Commodore same song. Stereolab did and made a difference for the femi me with your metaphor") is pre then steadily reveals spasmodi and so the music speaks of the Ballroom. I will be the one melt the track is called "Italian Shoes nist cause) and "What's Yr Take tension at its best. cally-created layers of aural reality of rural life in the '30s ed into a big puddle right in Continuum." There's simply a On Casevefes?" (left speaker: Christa exploration in the carefully con and '40s — hard work, pover front of the stage. remarkable vocabulary at work "Genius!" right speaker: structed, stripped dub sounds. At ty, racism, love, lust, violence, Hancunt in their latest disc. The guitar has "Misogynist!" left: "Alcoholic!" STEREOLAB its place again. The production once musical and melodic, yet sin, and redemption. There are right: "Messiah!"), I enjoyed Cobra and Phases Group is slick without a plastic feel. It's full of percussion, this dub sound traditional songs like Lucious "Slideshow at Free University," is personified in the never-quite- Curtis playing "Stagolee" PEOPLE LIKE US Play Voltage in the Milky with its sampled oration by a achieves-a-full-funk-groove of ("that bad man") and Frank Hate People Like Us Night professor on the purpose of art, "Dance," full of (or should I say Evans playing "French Blues," (Soleilmoon) (Elektra) Stereolab's unique sense of mis and "Dude Yr So Crazy!!" which "spare of") echoing piano riffs as well as original tunes like This is, ostensibly, a remix Many critics feel that Stereolab sion. Sometimes listeners can is a big ol' dis song for all them and a solid bassline to keep Big Charlie Butler's "It's album/companion to People will define the '90s like the actually hear the musicians mak boys in wife-beaters, raver boys, your mind somewhat planted as Better To Be Born Lucky" and Like Us' 1997 release, Hate Velvet Underground defines ing eye contact during the and anyone else these girls don't you consider your imitation-'60s "Workin' on the Levee, People Like You. Having never the '60s, Kraftwerk the '70s, recording. Such diversity threat like much. Ups and downs, ups Bob Marley posters, as the music Sleeping on the Ground" by heard the original, I cannot real and the Smiths the '80s. This ens lazy minds. Such people end down:, and so it goes in the drifts languidly on into "Horsie," Jim Henry. One rare find on ly comment on the faithfulness of will be Stereolab's last record for have said this disc is too long, 22 November 99 short, both albums would have this album is Sid Hemphill, (Yoyo) the ability to make it onto local grandfather of Jesse Mae Pat Maley's got the mad hook mainstream radio, if they were Hemphill, playing quills (a rel up. Where does he find all marketed properly ative of panpipes) on these cool musicians to fill his The only difference is that "Emmaline Take Your Time", compilations with? He must live Vancouver's Veal, as was first and "Hog Hunt," where he re- in nerdy folk-pop girl central, shown on its 1998 debut Hot enacts the sounds of trying to right around the corner from Loser, is a band that is not catch an escaped hog Fans of innovative electro school and afraid to go out on a limb and early gospel will appreciate the the weird- rockin' convenience try the odd experimentation with God-fearing sounds of Henry mart Oh wait, he's in Olympia, back-masked drums and juiced Joiner and group and the place where good ideas are guitars, whereas Nova Scotia's Reverend C.H. Savage and too plentiful to capture on one Lonnie James, who did a stint as group. compilation. I believe Mr. Maley leaves his studio only to guitarist with the Superfriendz Musically, this collection discover new bands to record prior to their breakup two years clearly demonstrates the blues with, and in doing so, leads a ago, plays straight-ahead '70s- idiom in its formative years, very good life. Most compila influenced pop with no real with the influences of African tions have a couple of good experimentation (excepting and Anglo musical traditions songs — this one's got a few some studio noodling). This is a melding into a unique sound bad ones. Nice to reverse the shame, considering Scratch Lomax called the recordings "a norm for once I was delighted Records' reputation for getting monument to the extraordinary to get a new Little Red Car involved in eclectic and weird creativity of the black people of Wreck song, and the Get The projects. Nevertheless, these are North America," although pret Hell Out Of The Way Of two great releases that leave this ty much all modern forms of The Volcano song was so blues, jazz, rock and hip hop much in the same vein that it can be considered part of that has quickly and completely monument. Deep River of Song Spike endeared itself to me. There is is one of the few documents of a nice IQU remix on here, and the times past, and the music is ZAP MAMA lots of cute songs from nerdy A Ma Zone girls and boys. I didn't ever (Virgin) Anna Friz make it to the end of this in one This album is all about voices — sitting (22 songs! good value!), in particular the smooth, liquid VARIOUS ARTISTS but I've heard I didn't miss vocals of Marie Daulne. It even The New Women's Music much with the Loud Machine says so in the liner notes: "Zap Sampler 0.5. Nice artwork on here, too. Mama is Marie." That means (Mr. Lady) This record makes me sad that I she is not some stereotypical When someone offers me a didn't go to the festival this past pretty face with a great voice; "music sampler," I usually she is also the writer, producer cringe. Images of Chris and the creative impetus behind Shepard dart through my head. Julie Colero Zap Mama. Together with her The New Women's Music co-queens of acapella, Zap Sampler, put out by Mr. Lady, VEAL Mama mixes it up with the addi has changed my thinking. It Tilt OWhirl tion of hip-hop, drum and bass, TOONIE MAYHEM with DJ Jeremy Warn rocks my little red shoes off. It (Square Dog) A night devoted to past and present hits from the 80s an and soul beats to build a groove ain't all rock and roll, though — LONNIE JAMES Free Pool. Cover $2 00 All you need is your loonies! around the singers that is mostly some of the best tracks are sad Dee-O irresistible. Though I'm usually little s that (Scratch/Teenage USA) suspicious of that trendy world- THE ORIGINAL KLASSIX NIGHT little of the soundtrack for Party I originally planned to review 23 years strung! Vancouver's first 80s and Disco night beat trick of mixing hip hop and COVef $4.00 -Show up early to midline -up' of Five, but in a good way. both of these albums indepen traditional music, this album suc There's something really healthy dently, until I realised that my ceeds, with the help of the about listening to sad music — review for each one was going WEDNESDAY YA LIKE IT HARD DON'T YA BABY! Roots, This Kid Named namely Doria Roberts' A new night dedicated to modern hard-edged music to be almost identical (with Miles, and Speech My "Perfect." Other contributers to from Jane's Addiction to SlipKnot. Free Pool Cover $3.00 some slight variations), so here the collection include the favourite is "Gbo Mata" — a song about playing video games Butchies, the Need, and THURSDAY BEST OF BRITISH with DJ Jeremy Warren Veal's second full-length Sar_'-, Dougher. If you like — although the opening track, The longest running Brit night in Vancouver! Brit pop (Blur) and Lonnie James' solo debut dance (Chemical Brothers) Manchester (Stone Roses) girls and their voices, there's featuring Manu Dibango, is are solid examples of no-non 80s (New Order) Cover $3.00 — free passes available bound to be something on this catchy enough to glue the CD in sense power pop albums. The CD that will move you within. It the stereo. musicianship is tight and flaw sounds cheesy, but that's what This is a pretty slick produc COSMIC CONSPIRACY with DJ Brian St. Clair less. A good mix of hard pop- Start the weekend off with electronica. indi. Brit pop. music samplers are. One thing's tion, which is to be expected rock tunes and soft, quirky & other groovy vibes. Cover $4.00 •show up earty to mid fae-upi for sure: I'm going back for from a Virgin release. But, ballads on both albums. The despite a couple of generic songs, for the most part, are tunes, A Ma Zone is lush and ADRENALINE with DJ Jeremy Warren Erin Shaw melodic and hummable, almost The best music of the week with an underground tweak! delicious food for ears hungry to to a fault. Tons of harmonies, Progressive house/techno and new alternative rock. Cover $4.00 VARIOUS ARTISTS both musical and vocal... in no Lilith Fair crapola. Projector: Another Yoyo other words, lotsa "doo doo"s, Anna Friz Studio Compilation SUNDAY SKOOL with DJ Jeremy Warren A!i tha liits of the week! SB's, iiard-edged. Brit alternative rockan d progressive dance. Free pool Ti/ Aat w. e listened t a . . . No cover! Need we say more? le tigre (over and over and over) • u-ziq • ornette coleman • kiss • L NIGHTS FREE BEFORE 10:30pm WITH THIS AD. the faint • tribe called quest • joel r.l. phelps • iron maiden • v/a Excluding special events. everything is nice • v/a buffy the vampire slayer (briefly) • psychic tv • lung leg • my bloody valentine • trooper • cocteau twins (bbc ses 1275 Seymour Street sions) • reducers sf • dj vadim • and stuff 685.3288 23 nm^ms-js god turned to me, half way through the Tricky show, face deadpan (looking gorgeous, of Real Live course) and said, "Thirty bucks for a fucking ticket. You'd think it'd kill him to turn around?" I Action knew then what type of review the show was going to get LIVE MUSIC REVIEWS I don't care if you're a musi cal genius, a recluse or just a SUPERCHUNK familiar, some unrecognizable, can only hope that the bouncer "private person" if you sign to CLOSED CAPTION RADIO all perfect Although the visuals was fired, and that the promoter a major international label, if Friday, September 17 that accompanied Spooky's set thinks twice before he books you decide to do a tour across Starfish Room were suitably trippy and hypnot another show at Dick's I doubt North America for months, you This was a lovely, compact bill: ic, I closed my eyes upon hear it, though, as hip-hop continues can't hide behind a speaker in a Closed Caption Radio and ing the strain's of Miles Davis' to demonstrate that, for the most dark room and expect people Superchunk, with no lame, horn blow the opening notes part, it's about the money. who've paid a lot of money to pitied third band to mar the from Bitches' Brew I focused on MC Super Cunt see you to sit back and enjoy night CCR kicked ass as usual, Miles, Omette, and many of themselves showcasing new material from jazz's finest innovators swim 30 FOOT FALL Sure the music, sound, and MONDAY, NOV. 1 their upcoming album. Yum, ming in millennium electronica THE RETREADS guests were great It was a much UZJSMED0MA yum Superchunk rocked the from one of turntablism's finest Saturday, September 25 harder show than previous ones Fish with their usual confidence Sorry, but Kool Keith was kind of Brickyard I have seen, and at times much THE LIARS The Chunklets stuck to new mate sad I om so sick of hip-hop con Oh, how I longed for this show. more hard-core electronica than SINGLESEVEN rial off of the Jim O'Rourke-pro- certs where they ask you over It seemed too good to be true: on his albums, but I could have TUESDAY, NOV. 2 duced Come Pick Me Up (a and over again to give it up, two of the world's finest punk put on his new album and turned FLASHING divine release) and also dug into feed their fuckin' egos, for no bands playing Vancouver in suc off all my lights if I wanted that some earlier tunes including cessive weeks? Alas, it was too LIGHTS "Fishing" and "Why Do You son to scream uncontrollably good Frenzal Rhomb did not His back-up singer, stunning LOCAL RABBITS Have To Put a Date On about you and I will. Why not play, so I waited with baited in both her stage presence and DIRTMITTS Everything" (a high point for my put on a really good show, like breath until 30 Foot Fall took her voice, was the only attractive CLOVER HONEY companion, Meat) And was I Rhazel, who stood in the same the stage They might have bro thing about the show. She SUNDAY, NOV. 7 ever a Shocked Sheila when I spot as Kool Wank only a month ken an arm walking up to it, for lounged to the side, looking saw with my own eyes that all ago He didn't need to whine for all I knew. ethereal, or stood centre-stage LES SAW FAV the sweet, high-pitched singing applause because his incredible Rushing to the bar to ensure and belted out some of his older TUESDAY, NOV. 9 from the new album was actual demonstration of talent demand I wouldn't miss 'em, I actually songs (like "Karmacoma"). But TEAGANI & SARA ly Mac McCaughan and not ed it Are you taking notes, Kool arrived 45 minutes before the Tricky, oh Tricky, he had his back WEDNESDAY, NOV. 10 gorgeous bass goddess Laura Keith? No, just get on stage with Retreads played. This being to the audience half the time. The Ballance! I love gender mind- your tired schtick as some dork Ihe rst I I had e rest of the time, he was unlit and CRITTERS fucks. Superchunk put a lol of in a hockey mask running them, I was quite impressed hidden behind a speaker. His BUGGIN sweat into their set, and also had around, trying to stage dive, and They are indeed a Spawner entire interaction with the audi FRIDAY, NOV. 12 special famous guest musician then pelt us with shriveled chick band, no mistaking that, as they ence was a mumbled "thank you Matt Sharp, bassist for Archers BUZZCOCKS en bits in plastic baggies and have that we-wanna-be-on-Fat thank you thank you" spoken of Loaf, playing acoustic guitar porno mags (which could be tone to them but, like after every second or third song. DOWN BY LAW — off-stage, to the right right in interpreted as a brilliant Complete, they stand out. Turns I, personally, don't go to LUNACHICKS front of where Meat and I stood I metaphorical comment on out Complete is the singer's other shows to see that sort of behav SATURDAY. NOV. 13 The audience, as usual, was pornography and it's depen band. There you go. iour. I can get it at home if I want aloof, quiet, and typical of dence on a ravenous, sick con ARCHER So, 30 Foot Fall did make it. I'm not saying everyone has Vancouver I really liked my first sumer society but I FUCKING the stage okay. Starting with to have the Cirque De Soleil PREWITT Superchunk concert, but Meat DOUBT IT!) Everyone I talked to "Constipation" and "Urine come and perform naked and SUNDAY, NOV. 14 didn't, so he got drunk and agreed unanimously: Kool Nation," they stated their politics on fire to make a good show. angry with me. Keith's DJ sucked hard. He just MATTHEW right off the bat: absolutely no But I do want the performer to Hancunt put the needle on the record and SWEET politics. Oh, how I miss such realise that she/he is singing to then stood back What's the MONDAY, NOV. 15 bands in today's all-too-serious specific set of individuals, not fucking point? Perhaps Kool KOOL KEITH punk scene Butch is the singer's just a dark room. Tricky, sadly, GUSTER Keith recognized that his DJ SPOOKY name And move over failed in keeping a fan interest mediocre rapping (regardless of WEDNESDAY, NOV. 17 Sunday, September 19 Nardwuar, this man is entertain ed. his recorded brilliance and indi PEDRO THE LION Richard's vidual style, he was flat live, ment personified. He danced, he Anthony Monday DAMIEN JURADO Oh, the shenanigans shook, he boogied, he stripped, OK2) would be upstaged by any SWANK 0'HARA Where to start? We waited DJ wilh more than mediocre tal he spent more time on the floor TAKACS STRING QUARTET an hour (at least) in a ticket hold ents, so he got this guy. I dunno. than the stage. And this man's Tuesday, September 28 THURSDAY, NOV. 18 ers' lineup until being let into the The hilarity reached its grealest voice is unparalleled — my own Vancouver Playhouse MARCY Dick house at 10:45. Whatever, height when the rappers onstage would have rasped beyond It's wonderful that we PLAYG0UND I guess it can't be helped. But it coherence after two or three Vancouverites have such fine asked for some girls to come join BLINKER THE was a Sunday in Vancouver, them. After much coaxing, they songs. His was still conversa local talent and attract exem OK, so you know we were outta finally got some very reluctant tional after 20 or 30. I am in plary outside players as well. STAR there by 1 2:30. So glad we did Yaletown types on stage, who The Takacs String Quartet is FRIDAY, NOV. 19 n't pay for our tickets. And, to tell looked extremely embarrassed, I'll be frank. If you missed the real deal: when this stan PLANET you the truth, after the pathetic yet were too indoctrinated by this show, buddy, you missed out dard-setting ensemble comes to display that was Kool Keith their patriarchal conditioning to big time. This review is some town, the critical ears of industry SMASHERS we were happy to leave But not go along with an attempted what incomplete, because I did and serious listeners are sure to KINGPINS first, let me praise DJ "don't display of their booty. Robotic. n't stay for Straight Faced be there in rapt attendance. UNDERC0VERS AKA me, motherfuckin' try- What could have possibly Perhaps this accounts for the Oh, the shenanigans Then one SATURDAY, NOV. 20 hards" Spooky for such a gor of Keith's entourage informed the topped what I'd just seen? This group's hesitations in their open geous, although brief, set bored audience at the end of the may well be the best show I ing of Bartok's 1928 fourth quar ISOTOPE 217 Spooky created imaginative show that a Dick's on Dicks have ever attended. No shit. tet. It was not until the third THURSDAY, NOV. 25 sonic landscapes which incorpo bouncer beat the shit out of some Trevor Fielding movement that they seemed to KILT rated his own instrumental play agree on balances The rhythms guy that they hauled offstage. FRIDAY, NOV. 26 ing, including an electric upright This announcement barely got a TRICKY seemed uncertain as well, as if bass and a thumb organ. Beats reaction from the bored audi Monday, September 27 they were too concerned with SUSANABACA and loops and samples mixed ence. But it did happen, and I Rage keeping together at high speeds SATURDAY, NOV. 27 with the instrumentation, some My favourite coffee-slinging sex to let the music flow naturally. TRICKY WOO 24 November 99 Bartok's quartets ore among the but its reversal of instrumental happy little pop-bubbles in his the nimble fingers and imagina music was better when it was most difficult to perform and accompaniment — frequently world. tion of this beat kleptomaniac free of an artist's fingerprints of whatever problems the group demanding that the clarinet and Tanaka has a long history in would such sounds be heard :ing *. violin support the piano — slyly the turn-table world, his previous across the universe for 55 min The Audubon Quartet — n stage. By the third refers to the second movement of claim to fame has been working utes of non-stop kookiness? along with Erika Eckert on viola movement everything seemed Webern's Concerto, Op 24, with Deee-Lite (he played their James Holroyd spun and Walter Gray on cello — effortless and the audience was which did much the same thing opus "Groove Is In The Heart" house for 30 minutes too long had no problem uncovering the stunned into silence, entirely The concert's second half and proved that, apparently, it before the Chemical Brothers magic of both sextets. They knew attentive, and richly rewarded. began with Jacqueline is). took the stage how to bring out soaring The first half was completed with Leggatt's Raido, a 1999 duet His visuals were perhaps the Too loud, too late — I left the Romantic regist the fourth of Haydn's 1772 for cello and clarinet. Only three second best thing about the s bala. BRICKYARD "Sun" quartets, Op. 20. This minutes long, Raido was show (the first being the general Morgan Tanner Ckii I pois. was one of the most perfect per inspired by Viking runes, but all around pop-ness). They were both works translated to an effec formances that this critic can comes off as something gentler sort of the same genre as the car AUDUBON QUARTET AND tive dramatic curve. The second recall. The same can be said for than anything remotely martial. toons in Pink Floyd's "The FRIENDS: String Sextets of sextet positively ached, while the the second half, featuring the This critic found an extra-musical Wall," but happy. That's H-A-P-P- Johannes Brahms first of Beethoven's association with the cummings Y. Imagine the Muppets on E — Tuesday, October 12 of the composer's stiff upper lip. "Rasoumowsky" quartets from line "until the small, clumsy feet that sort of thing. The 2 metre by Vancouver Playhouse The enthusiastic and sympathet- 1806 Performances like this of april came-into the ragged 2 metre screen hanging behind Johannes Brahms (1 833-97) was Dught on a pro- remind us what all the fuss sur meadow of my soul." Raido was Tanaka was continuously filled not a typical German Romantic that gavfi rounding old music is.about; gentle and lovely, neither kitschy with primary-coloured little balls, composer in that he was never rounded portrait of a great we're in love with the" works nor soul shaking. Bradshaw or images of beautiful cartoon caught up in the ecstatic rapture very human composer, THE MURDER CITY DEVILS Pack's 1997 piece the earth for babes orbiting around a grin of his own genius. His music had THE COME-ONS rather than the age The audi acoustics at the Vai THE CATHETERS ence then got a movement from you a Standing place was more ning cartoon Tanaka. a sober integrity precluding Playhouse were excellent a quartet from Beethoven's very forceful and sinuous, featuring o The whole evening came to whims and temper tantrums. usual, and the crowd wa: deaf late period, his Op. 130, strummed cello introduction, per a crux, for me, in his rendition of However, the second work was good as a listener or perfoi after five curtain calls. If there's haps indicative of a troubadour's Eurythmics' "Talking to an written when Brahms was expe could hope for an afterlife worth attending, it's musical preamble. The instru Angel." Perhaps better than the riencing a relationship crisis. John Keillor something like that. ments eventually followed and original. Only Annie Lennox These two sextets, written during John Keillor surrounded the cello, creating differing emotional circum DEL THA FUNKY tension and depth of narrative The whole experience was stances for the composer, offer a HOMOSAPIEN STANDING WAVE: Local without programmatic preten made of yummy things. If you compelling aesthetic profile. CASUAL sion. Its exposition was distinct; haven't picked up FPM, do. The first sextet, Op. 18, was UGLY DUCKLING rather than transparently spelling Thursday, September 30 You'll thank me in the long run written 1859-60. Life was good Sunday, October 17 out basic materials to be devel Vancouver East Cultural Anthony Monday for Brahms and his disciplined, Richard's oped, Pack offered a mystery to Centre long breathed melodies worked Del Tha Funky be explored. Tfie earth for you a Standing Wave's season opener CHEMICAL BROTHERS well into robust counterpoint. Homosapien, powers activat Standing place was strenuously was a burst of sensitivity and JAMES HOLROYD Brahms' elegant and unwaver ed when the spirit hits the stage, involving and genuinely beauti heart. The ensemble appeared DJ SHADOW ing control over the material is a my friend there's no need for ful. rested and enthusiastic. They VELVET primary expressive factor, more alarm. Breakers from intersecting kicked off with James The concert concluded with Wednesday, October 6 in common with Mozart's late dimensional darkness emerged Beckwith Maxwell's 1 999 Brent Lee's 1 998 Ribbons of PNE Forum 18th century than Wagner's with light bending moves Forberen, a work that carves the Visible Air, and featured What evil lurks in the hearts of 19th century and its music's expanding the culture as the sty composer's name into the listen wilder nature. Brahms admitted lus grooves. Francois Houle on soprano men? DJ Shadow knows, and THE FIRST ANNUAL er's memory. Forberen is a rich saxophone and an amplified throws down moldy breaks of he should have been born a hun First up, the LA triad of Ugly EMO HARDCOREFEST quartet, filled with techniques Standing Wave ensemble. This terse toms, boombastic bass, dred years previously; he was Duckling: backbeats dropped NOV. 14-15 eliciting unconventional sounds was a lyrical, pretty work that and relapsing rides all itching for more Classical than Romantic. by Young Einstein got the two to compliment the music's resembled light electric jazz. It a scratch with more flavour than The Op. 36 "Agathe" sextet, emcees' synergy flowin'. Next in abstract narrative. Some com was a nice way to unwind after a pumpkin patch. Shadow completed in 1 865, exposed line, Casual maintained an posers have found it easier to a fine show. The Vancouver East carved a niche in my ear drum, Brahms' discomfort with free underground train through an simply string together unconven Cultural Centre is a great venue serving phat platters of aural Romantic expression. Having ocean of pleasure and throbbing tional sounds and call that col for new music, featuring good soul food smothered with heart painfully terminated his relation membrane pain. The Cas' bel lection of sounds a piece of acoustics, enough seating, and beat gravy. ship with Agathe von Siebold, low and free-style flow won the music, often legitimizing this an alert bar staff. Standing Sadly, the Forum was cho his musical testimony to his loss crowd's jiggy Jell-O joy. Jay-Biz compositional method with the Wave has a wonderful season sen for this quadruple-billed was both less assured in execu provided the heartbeats, gravy, label "etude." Conversely, planned, so make time to be platypus. Let it be said that the tion and perhaps more com and cutlets to make us shake our Maxwell elected to tell a tight, Forum should be used as a hock pelling in elocution. The inner butts. dramatic tale requiring a large John Keillor ey rink as it was intended. movements were rife with All set and stoked like an vocabulary to illustrate romantic The first act, Velvet, was melodies in high registers, not arsonist to a match, Del opened tension. The ensemble had no FANTASTIC PLASTIC loud and had vinyl for sale at the normally part of Brahms' musical the hatch to the funk trunk. trouble with the extended tech MACHINE swag stand. language. They sound almost Elevating the verb through the niques and stunningly reflected Sunday, October 3 Second phase, DJ Shadow clumsy and very honest, like a ceiling to the Mothership, truth the composer's vision. Chameleon Lounge took the wheels of steel for a tough, laconic man trying hard revealing, congealing with the Itmar Erez's 1999 When I think of Fantastic ride. I had to smile when he to talk about his feelings. Brahms beats, embracing the feeling. Ritornello I pluckily followed, Plastic Machine, all the con gave props to a thrift store (a was a composer who expressed The show included interludes featuring charismatic percus notations of "pop" that one can regular stomping ground for us music rather than himself, which from a local DJ who kept the sionist Lauri Lyster on the Udu, imagine come to mind — all the starving DJs). Shadow displayed is why his second sextet's partic night's underground vibe alive, a Nigerian percussion instrument bubble bursts and all the shiny his skills as a capable beat jug ular beauty is unique to his out lacing the joint nicely with dope that resembles a rounded wine happy tunes and all the sweet gler and remixer of fab party put. Even those who do not ind lyric gourd. A consistent rhythmic saccharine tastiness of soda. time favs such as "The Number tlie r of his 12" motif went through myriad Sunday night was like walk Song" and the beautiful can recognize his distinct com Phoney Phranchise and the colour contexts varying from ing into a pop factory; every "Midnight in a Perfect World." posure, which is dignified with upcoming LP Both Sides ofthe interesting to beautiful. African thing bubbled, sparkled, made Under the flashing lights he out any trappings of an affected Brain, slated for release in and Middle Eastern influences you want to jump and sing resembled an Afrika aristocratic grace. He also February. The jet skills set ended mpai ted s. along. At the same time, you felt Bambaata clone — cleverly refused to reflect the soul of the with a high energy lick from to Ritornello I, lending weight to like sitting down and chair- mixing records of any style into tortured genius. That was not for Third Eye Vision The show the impression it left on the lis grooving with a soda in your soundtracks taking beat-digging lasted from nine o'clock until tener Keith Hamel's hand. Either way, Tomoyuki archaeologists on a journey to tious and hard working compos midnight with beats that take Refraction, from 1991, ended Tanaka [AKA Fantastic Plastic the centre of the earth, excavat er with little interest in the flight and lyrics that enlighten the concert's first half with a trio Machine) gallumphed around ing broken bones and musings glamour that surrounded 19th and, as Del proclaimed so poet Heavy Metal Sunday: for piano, clarinet and violin. Its the turntables at the far end of century music. His music rarely ically, "the future is now." shape was not always striking, the room, making everyone i. How else but by got "personal" because for him Morgan Tanner M.49 Wednesdays 25 •2^g°QHSffi AGNOSTIC "Gadjits Junior FRONT itAtl (ur A/tMi -Wf Kimbrough :^(AF~ m iiiiinm gnffi^a www.epitaph.com _5 «. PUNK ROCK VIDEO/CD COMPILATION OUT NOW! [DVD OUT: 11/23] L_ SICK OF IT ALL • BAD RELIGION • MUSTARD PLUG • MELVINS • MAN OR ASTROMAN • THE WEAKERTHANS • SUPERCHUNK • AFI AND M0RE...20 BANDS IN ALL "EXCHA NGE " SC007-10"/MCD FFTHEN. "alleera" (live) SC008-CD only L; [iZsUBCITY(^] HOW THE CHARTS WORK CiTR The monthly charts are compiled based on the number or times a CD/LP ("long vinyl"), 7" ("short vinyl"), or demo tape ("indie home jobs") on CiTR's playlist Charts was played by our djs during the previous month (ie, "November" charts reflect airplay over October). Weekly charts can be received via e-mail. 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