fhe Aits and Entertainment Supplement to the Daily Nexus, for February 23rd through March 1 st, 1995 STAMP OUT JOE ROCK-STAR! Turn to 4-5A for some personal 2A Thursday, February 23,1995 Daily Nexus Associated Students PROGRAM BOARD presents The Sound of Loss Peter Kater/R. Carlos Nakai How The West Was Lost TOMORROW VoL 2 Silver Wave @ NOON Native American flutes, drums, rattles and an eagle bone whistle come together in harmony with European instruments to create the music on the second volume of the V o o d o o soundtrack to the Discov­ ery Channel’s miniseries “How The West Was Lost” D a d d y z The Peter Kater com­ positions, released earlier this year, are mostly in­ note to note in a whimsical ters in a Native American FREE IN STORKE PLAZA! strumental. Some do fea­ fashion. language over the soft ture beautiful vocals, in­ The mood of the album flutes and drums of “Chief cluding those by Native is altered, however, when Ouray's Death Song.” His American songstress the listener encounters message and somber Joanne Shenandoah. “Landscape of War.” The mood transcend the THIS SATURDAY As the solo voice on “In­ composition is quite un­ tongue in which it is spo­ dian Territory,” a compos­ suited to the feeling the al­ ken, and communicate February 25th ition of just under two mi­ bum evokes. It is here that well. nutes, Shenandoah’s voc­ Western synthesizers and How The West Was als echo over drums and snare drums take away Lost concludes the way it synthesizers to create a from the indigenous opened, with Shenandoah dreamlike atmosphere. sounds, moving the music ooh-ing over soft synthe­ in Campbell Hall “Challenge at White toward ’80s television sizer chords and a gentle River” is an emotional drama land with a track piano solo. The music for duet between a piano and more suited to a car chase the miniseries is beautiful, a native wooden flute. The scene from “Magnum P.I.” and if the listener is open piano is the driving force than for background to the sounds, they will of the song, pushing the music to an austere cul­ create striking visuals for music forward, while the tural documentary. the imagination. flute lightly ¿ides from Vocalist Chris White ut­ —M. Jolie Lash after There’s been a re­ surgence of a certain comic-book style over the past few years and it’s been mainly due to the work of one pair of creators. The style is Western and the men responsible have been Joe Lansdale and Tix still Available! _ _ ^ Tim Truman. General seating - Doors open X'wsgv Almost two years ago, _____ ^ ^ A j \ J the pair shocked readers @ 8 pm with their five-part series, Jonah Hex: Two Gun Mojo, which blended a with special guest tough-as-nails Southern gunfighter against a travel­ ing snake-oil salesman and his troop of zombies. J k i ^ w n s ’.' a i n i The comic was an excel­ Q ilr^ ^ r a lnu IqÆk ILg> lent mix of Old West and horror, Truman’s art and Lansdale’s witty plot and dialogue. It was a realistic depiction of the time... ex­ All Tickets are available at the A .S . Ticket Office, cept for the zombies. on the 3rd floor of the UCen, or charge by phone: 893-2064. Truman and Landsdale then went on to produce last year’s Lone Ranger Grupo Folklórico and Tonto, but now have returned to the character Raíces De Mi Tierra that started the ball roll­ ing, with Jonah Hex: Rid­ presents ers of the Worm and Such. Hex is a confederate of­ ficer who, after the war, spends time as a bounty hunter, at least when he isn’t being pursued by even if it weren’t all your natural in the mix, which ("TREASURES OF OUR CULTURE") trouble. Hex is easily rec­ fault and them folks comes in the form of giant ognizable because of a ter­ needed holes in ’em any­ worms living underneath rible scar down one side of way. It saddened me to see the prairies of the Texas Campbell Hall his fiice, and by his bright what Texas was cornin’ to Panhandle. The worms red eye. He always seems ... gettin’ so danged civil­ have been living under the March 4 to have some interesting ized and all.” earth for centuries and quip to explain what hap­ The story begins with have decided to come up Doors open @ 6 pm pened to him; “My mother Hex on the run from to the surface to get them­ $8 stu. / $10 gen. kissed me too hard” or bounty hunters, due to tile selves a little snack. “My toothpick slipped,” aforementioned incident Lansdale brings out the For tickets & info. - Call the Chicano/Latin but mostly Hex is a likable They catch up to him, but characters of the Old West character due to his have a little trouble bring­ with amusing results, E.O.P. office at 893-4040 cactus-like wit, supplied ing him in. After dealing while Truman keeps a Still Accepting Artworks for this year s Extravaganza. by Lansdale. with the situation, Hex Western feel in his art and Interested in getting a free T-shirt and lots of Posters? “Times is changin’,” runs into some fellow keeps the details as close Hexsays. “These days,you travelers, one of whom to reality as possible. It’s Then Submit & be in Awe at your art on the backs of shoot a bunch of bullies all closely resembles the out­ obvious that with two eople you know and don't. It's Funl Try It! More 411 - j to pieces and seta town on law, Billy the Kid. Old-West successes under Call 893-3536- Peace! fire, the law takes it It wouldn’t be a Truman their belt, this pair of crea­ personal-like. Law wants and Lansdale story with­ tors are on to their third. *0 you to pay for them killin’s out something a bit super­ —Matt Nelson Daily Nexus Thursday, February 23,1995 3 A Tricky^ B o n a n z a ! A fterm ath and Ponderosa 4th & B’way There is a remix on Tricky’s single A fterm ath that is parenthetically known as the "Hip Hop Blues” mix. That is as good a description as any of what TTicky — the man and his “band” — do. Imagine being a 26-year-old Black man growing up in a part of Bristol, England known as the “Bristol Bronx,” raised "Smart, jazz-laced hip-hop. by a rather old-fashioned Never self conscious." grandmother and getting — Rolling Stone into music at an early age, BLOWOUT COMB as well as alcohol, mari­ W ith Blowout Comb, juana and acid. more eerie and strange like all Tricky releases, it’s Digable Planets continue to than ever before. It has to pretty hard to find. Imagine at age 19 get­ grow on the promise of their ting involved with a bunch be said that they recorded Sometime this month, of young, wild musicians stoned out of their minds. Tricky will be releasing a debutalbum Reachin'(A New of a similar age who The remixes on Ponder- debut album, Maxin- Refutation of Time ^ pursued music and drugs osa were more creative, as quaye. It remains to be and Space). p-. ) with equal abandon. Ima­ well, than the ones on A f­ seen if they will be her­ gine being a part of the term ath. There were com­ alded as the “new sound of group that created Mas­ pletely funked-up disco acid jazz,” as so many peo­ sive Attack’s influential mixes of “Ponderosa” by ple would like to assume and critically acclaimed Dobie, and a monotonous, of Massive Attack, or if debut album, Blue Lines, ambient “Terrorists Power they’ll be taken up as the in 1991. Underground Club Mix,” by the Ultra- next Portishead. Triclqr, heroes, all of them. magnetic MCs. the man, has always been In 1993, Tricky (the very mysterious about his band) released its debut S ince Ponderosa, music. single, Afterm ath. It was a Tricky has released a new “Basically, it’s music slow concoction of low- single on 4th and B’Way, you can do whatever you down bass, a sampled called Overcome. It’s a want to,” he says. “If you garage-blues guitar riff and Tricky cover of “Karma- want to dance to it, go a shuffling backbeat with coma,” one of the songs he ahead. I’d like to see you the pulse of the streets. contributed to the new try. If you want to sit m a And it boasted the voice of Massive Attack album, darkened room and let it Martina, an 18-year-old and it features vocals by fill your head with strange student who has since be­ Martina. I’ve heard it’s dis­ thoughts, that’s fine.” come, with Tricky (the turbingly beautiful, but, —Mix. E man), a core member of Tricky (the band). It was like the cool jazz of Portis- head, crossed with the messy blues of Tom Waits. (Of course, to be fair, at this time Portishead had not even recorded an al­ bum yet — they were only a glimmer in Geoff Bar- row’s eye.) Afterm ath did not see release here in the States until 1994, and by that time, Tricky had recorded another single. Ponderosa upped the ante and pushed the envelope even further. Martina’s sensual Spearhead is a San Fran­ murmur had become more ■ SPEARHEAD visceral, along with Hom e cisco based seven member Tricky’s parenthetical group and the brainchild of mutters, groans and pioneering rapper/vocalist asides, creating something Michael Franti.