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HIGH NOTES

Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Feb 27, 2002
Epoca de Ouro: 'Cafe Brasil'
Brazil has produced more than its fair share of indigenous popular music, but the most basic is choro, which in Portuguese literally means "sobbing." That isn't to say all choro songs are designed to make the listener break down in tears. It has more to do with the ensemble sound, a kind of contrapuntal...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Feb 27, 2002
Janet Klein: 'Paradise Wobble'
Janet Klein was born in the wrong era. With her warm, lilting voice, flapper dresses and ukulele, she seems more suitable for the Roaring '20s than the world today. On "Paradise Wobble," she gives us a taste of the bygone era she pines for. Together with her Parlor Boys, a group of enthusiastic archival...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Feb 27, 2002
Angelo Badalamenti: 'Mulholland Drive'
David Lynch has always been one of cinema's most astute directors when it comes to sound. Whether its recycling pop songs in an entirely new context ("Blue Velvet") or pure industrial ambience (the radiator hiss from "Eraserhead"), Lynch has always used the soundtrack deliberately to add another dimension...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Feb 20, 2002
Shibusa Shirazu Orchestra
For those lucky enough to catch a live performance of Japanese jazz-animals Shibusa Shirazu Orchestra, one look at the legion of raised microphones in the crowd is enough to reassure that recordings of the orchestra aren't in short supply. Fans seem to collect and trade bootlegs like comics or Star Wars...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Feb 20, 2002
Sam Phillips: 'Fan Dance'
Nonesuch, America's premier record label for modern music (Kronos Quartet, Steve Reich), has recently become a place where high-minded pop artists can make mid-career course corrections. Emmylou Harris found a sympathetic outlet for her burgeoning Gothic-country tendencies, and the label let Duncan Shiek...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Feb 20, 2002
Supersnazz
Supersnazz's 1998 album, "Diode City," must feel like a bit of an albatross for the band. The 19-song punk-pop classic is so awesome that if you locked Supersnazz in a studio for 10 years and held a gun to their heads, they'd be unlikely to better it. On their latest album, "Rock-O-Matic," they don't...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Feb 20, 2002
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Last year, The Strokes and White Stripes were placed in a rocket of hype and blasted into superstardom. The media -- me included -- bludgeoned you into thinking they were the hippest bands in the universe and should be name-dropped at every opportunity if you wanted to be cool. Thankfully, they made...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Feb 13, 2002
Marc-Andre Hamelin
Canadian pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin was the only classical musician to play live at the 2001 Grammy Awards Ceremony, a distinction that some of his peers might find dubious and others downright horrifying. It isn't clear what benefit the gig afforded Hamelin in terms of record sales, but in a roundabout...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Feb 13, 2002
Michelle Wilson: 'Wake Up Call'
With searing vocals, Michelle Willson delivers her clear-eyed statements on work, love and life from a woman's point of view. And in that regard, nearly every cut on her fourth release, on which she teams up with the tight, rocking Evil Gal Festival Orchestra, is a wake-up call.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Feb 13, 2002
Monoland: 'Cooning'
What the Berliner four-piece Monoland are doing with atmospheric rumbling and washes of distortion is not completely new to modern music. The confluence of dreamy vocals and sonic thunderclap recalls the short-lived shoegazer movement of the late '80s to mid-'90s. It was then that bands like Ride and...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jan 30, 2002
Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble: 'Mnemosyne'
The collaboration between saxophonist Jan Garbarek and the a cappella vocal quartet Hilliard Ensemble is an avant-garde blend of modern European jazz and early music. On "Mnemosyne," their recent collaboration, the origin of their songs extends back to the second century B.C. with a Greek hymn to Delphic...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jan 30, 2002
Scanner
In the land of ubiquitous cell phones, it's hard not to eavesdrop on the chatterboxes around you. Scanner, aka Robin Rimbaud, a British sound artist, has taken technology-abetted voyeurism to another level. Dubbed a "telephone terrorist," he rose to notoriety in the late '90s by filtering "found" cell-phone...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jan 30, 2002
The Dismemberment Plan
In addition to the usual semi-coherent tour diary and merchandising gambits, The Dismemberment Plan's Web site contains a list of the 10 greatest songs of all time that, apparently, changes on occasion. Though the idea of such a mutable list is seemingly contradictory, it sums up the aesthetic of the...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jan 30, 2002
Electric Soft Parade: 'Holes in the Wall'
Electric Soft Parade have been heralded by much of the British music press as the best of a bunch of bands that currently make up what some call the nu-acoustic movement, which includes the whining of bands like Elbow, Starsailor and Coldplay.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jan 23, 2002
Jurassic 5
As a workplace, the underground has its advantages, the main one being that no one is looking over your shoulder. Jurassic 5 are the acknowledged leaders of the West Coast underground hip-hop movement, even though they aspire to be popular entertainers, a vocation that normally demands the cold, harsh...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jan 23, 2002
The Prodigy
The Prodigy might not be ancient history, but five years in pop music can feel like an eternity, and that's how long we've been waiting for them to release some new material.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jan 23, 2002
Brian Wilson's 'Pet Sounds Tour'
For most people, whose impression of The Beach Boys probably begins and ends with pop ditties like "Help Me Rhonda" or "Surfer Girl," it might be difficult to fathom that the band's 1966 album, "Pet Sounds," is ranked right up there with "Sgt. Pepper."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jan 23, 2002
Money Mark
Since breaking out on his own in 1995, Money Mark, the "fourth Beastie Boy," has evolved his organ/keyboard-based grooves from short, funky thumbnail-sketches and lo-fi pop to loose, jazzy soul-jams.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jan 16, 2002
Dhafer Youssef: 'Electric Sufi'
Sufism, the mystical side of Islam, is the inspiration of a musical style that emphasizes repetition and a trance-like intensity approaching ecstasy. Its most prominent style is qawwali, which developed in India and Pakistan and whose most famous practitioner was the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jan 16, 2002
John Medeski with Robert Randolph: 'The Word'
Until a year ago, Robert Randolph's only regular gig was playing sacred steel on Sundays for the parishioners at his New Jersey church.
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Shooter came within inches of killing Trump, but left few clues as to why
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The neurological disorder that 'kills culture'
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How to beat Japan’s summer heat in ways better for the planet
Tenugui towels hang up to dry at a dyeing company in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on May 8. The durable and versatile tenugui, which many people have in their homes, can be used in many ways to cool one’s body.
After Trump shooting, U.S. presidential race might take a violent turn
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