The debut CD from this female-male duo of Kit Messick and James Babbo comes in a digipak with two Mucha paintings. The cover is a picture of an idealized...
Craig Gidney
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Sep 15, 2000 2:15 am
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The Vintner's Luck, by Elizabeth Knox. Sexuality in general and homosexuality in particular is counterpoised to the sacred in our culture. Lust is one of the...
Craig Gidney
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Sep 20, 2000 5:22 pm
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Basque at the Metro Café, September 26, 2000 (Washington, DC) Basque opened their brief set with 'Wool and Water,' a piece off their debut full-length CD...
Craig Gidney
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Sep 27, 2000 1:44 pm
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Goldfrapp is the collaboration between Will Gregory and singer Alison Goldfrapp. It is clearly in the post-Portishead vein of electronica influenced...
Craig Gidney
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Sep 27, 2000 2:52 pm
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Bowery Electric, "Lushlife" Trip-hop is derivative of the most urban of art forms, Hip-hop. Most Trip-hop borrows the beats and sampling of hip-hop to create...
Craig Gidney
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Oct 22, 2000 10:17 pm
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Bel Canto, Images. Bel Canto's last album, "Magic Box", was simply dreadful. They had jettisoned their trademark delicacy for a homogenous dance-pop sound, ...
Craig Gidney
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Oct 22, 2000 10:17 pm
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Faith and Disease, "Beneath The Trees." Dara Rosenwasser and Eric Cooley create music that's cut from the same cloth; it's a slow, sad, lonely sound with roots...
Craig Gidney
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Nov 3, 2000 7:09 pm
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The band Broadcast has a beautiful voiced singer that sounds sorta Sioux (in that she's icy and detached). The music sounds like a cross between Portishead...
Craig Gidney
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Nov 24, 2000 11:51 pm
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While its by no means a perfect book, there is much to admire about Ricardo Pinto's first novel, THE CHOSEN. It's set in an ornate, cruel society ruled by a...
Craig Gidney
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Nov 27, 2000 8:19 pm
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Is it me or have you also noticed the recurrent theme of Seraphim in recent novels? I read one by Nancy A. Collins and came across another that I haven't read...
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Nov 28, 2000 10:14 pm
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TUNDRA is very dance-oriented, with simple, catch lyrics. Drecker's singing voice is in fine form, going from classical soprano to exotic oriental and Middle...
Craig Gidney
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Jan 17, 2001 6:21 pm
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Basque, "Falling Forward." Lacqua Records. http://www.basquemusic.com 1. Somefire 2. Falling Forward 3. Kamehameha 4. Grey and Green 5. Inheritance (Talk Talk...
Craig L. Gidney
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Feb 4, 2001 2:08 am
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COMING MARCH 21ST ... Combining subtle ambient atmospheres with locational resonance James Johnson along with Stephen Philips has created an ever flowing,...
Zero Music
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Feb 25, 2001 8:12 pm
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Louisa John-Krol, "Ariel." Blue Tree. http://www.louisajohnkrol.com 1. Blackbird 2. Red Balloon 3. Numb the Wren Tear 4. Nobeluis' Garden 5. Beads of Rain 6....
Craig L. Gidney
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Feb 25, 2001 8:17 pm
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Hello out there.... Here's the monthly news from Zero Music "Floating & Dreaming" from "Linger" to be aired on "Hearts of Space" ...
Zero Music
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Mar 7, 2001 3:52 pm
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Hannah Fury: The Thing That Feels http://www.mellowtraumatic.com 1. Not Like You 2. Love Today 3. Meathook 4. Of Longing (instr.) 5. Let It Show 6. I Can't Let...
Craig L. Gidney
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Mar 20, 2001 4:18 pm
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JAMES JOHNSON and STEPHEN PHILIPS Lost at Dunn¹s Lake Zero Music (2001) When I played an excerpt from James Johnson¹s and Stephen Philip¹s collaboration,...
Zero Music
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Mar 27, 2001 5:48 pm
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Jason Sloan -" to cross the river of light" NOW SHIPPING ********************************************************************************** Wer'e happy to...
Zero Music
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Apr 3, 2001 6:11 pm
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Set List: So Far Away Hangover Flower My Funny Valentine The Hate Song Sometimes I Wish I Had A Gun Sunday Is The Day For Love Everything's Wonderful Bottom Of...
Craig L. Gidney
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Apr 6, 2001 1:39 pm
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1. Antony and the Johnsons is beautiful, dark cabaret sung with wavering emotion by a bald, pale hermaphroditic person named Antony. His voice is beyond...
Craig L. Gidney
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Apr 19, 2001 1:44 pm
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Greetings all, I just found this group, and it seems to be right up my alley, which is somewhat rare, considering my alley follows many twists and turns ...
Miss Angel Eirlys-Tan...
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May 13, 2001 9:43 pm
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ETHEREAL TRIP HOP DIVA!:SIANNA LYONS Sianna Lyons 'Songland' Produced by Federico Gonzalez Scimitar Records LKP-22716 Review by Billy Tweedie Sianna Lyons is a...
Billy
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May 13, 2001 9:43 pm
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Cranes: Future Songs. http://www.dadaphonic.com 1. Future Song 2. Submarine 3. Flute Song 4. Sunrise 5. Don't Wake Me Up 6. Driving In The Sun 7. Fragile 8....
Craig L. Gidney
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Jun 18, 2001 1:23 am
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Annette Farrington: Azure Wonder And Lust. http://drawbridge.com 1. Magic 2. Viva 3. Dive 4. I Might Not Be Here 5. Let The World Go Away 6. Exotica 7. I...
Craig Gidney
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Jul 29, 2001 11:11 pm
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Distortion, by Stephen Beachy http://www.distortionthebook.com The second novel by Stephen Beachy is a paradox: it's a difficult novel that's easy to read. A...
Craig Gidney
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Aug 13, 2001 8:32 pm
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I saw THE OTHERS last night. It was a very good movie--chilling, elegant and beautiful to look at--like an Ivory-Merchant version of a horror movie, with...
Craig Gidney
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Aug 17, 2001 12:08 pm
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Ice, by Anna Kavan. http://www.redmood.com/kavan Kafka cavorts with Plath in this post-apocalyptic novel by the late Anna Kavan. A thermonuclear device has...
Craig Gidney
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Aug 20, 2001 8:24 pm
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I hated the last HNIA cd, Fort Lake. It was too unformed, and sprawling. The new cd, "Someday My Blues Will Cover the Earth," is wonderful. It has complete...
Craig Gidney
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Sep 5, 2001 3:39 pm
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hey All, As a newguy writer who gets all his ideas from life, listening to music, looking at art, and reading in that order, this looks like the place for me....
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Sep 11, 2001 12:37 pm
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In these troubling times, I find myself turning more and more to escapist music--like 4AD/Projekt ethereal stuff. I find that it helps me divert my attention ...