an ultra-modern take on the ancient singing style. Drones, sampled loops, mysterious shimmering modal harmony and a welter of studio effects, masterminded by experimental rock producer Michael Brook, underlay the ancient songs, and the effect is uniquely mesmerising and densely exquisite in its own idiosyncratic way. (NC)
Martyn Bennett
Bothy Culture (Rykodisc) * at a: it
Like Ireland's O’ Lionaird, Edinburgh’s Martyn Bennett attempts to meld ancient tradition and modern popular music forms, a process that can, and often does, sound dated almost immediately, given the ephemeral nature of music technology and most club dance styles. So this album won’t have an infinite shelf life, but it’s a brave attempt to marry his talent on pipes, violin and whistles With his own programmed beats, samples -- and his own v0ice (not singing) ~~ in essentially a home-studio recording. If a lot of it is heaVily riff-based and predictable, there are enough interesting textural and harmonic ideas to keep the attention, and it's all well performed (all his own work), and cleanly produced. Overall, Bennett's second album is a worthy
3 addition to the burgeoning Celtic groove dance scene (NCi
.I mm}- Belle & Sebastian
3 . . 6 . . 9 Seconds of Light (Jeepster Recordings) A i. 4,,
Come JOllT the conspiracy An EP, giving us the opportunity to nominate track
: two, ‘La Pastie De La Bourgeoisie as hero for the fortnight Lasts three minutes and ten seconds Especially recortirriended if
i you harbour a yen for the elegant hum
of the lylonochrome Set's 'Jet Set lunta',
; but more mellow, more drama (DL‘i
: Pacrftca
‘ Landlocked (Polaris Records) 4r 7k
Sounds, for the first eight seconds, like 'Girls and Boys' period Blur, before shifting into soriwething baggier and less dil(.’(llll() There's a dragging about
the tempo, as though each member of PaCifica is aware that they should speed up a bit, but doesn't want to say. Lasts three minutes and twelve seconds. (DL)
United Future Organisation The Planet Plan (Talkin' Loud) it Hr
Many mixes, but we’ll plump for the ’Edit' verSion. UFO cheekily ramming a Jazz James Bond right up the Mission: Impossible. Lasts four minutes and six seconds. Very nice, in that eclectic Nineties way you read about in all the glossies. (DL)
Foxy Brown Big Bad Mamma (Violator/RAL) me
We got as far as 'For the best effect, you've got to use your tongue, find my G-Spot, get me hot, Foxy, Chocolate, Baby, got milk, shake that ass like you JUSl don’t care. . .' before Sister Ruth made us take it off. Lasts three minutes and fifty two seconds. Bounces rather fairly. (DL)
? The Goldenhour
Until I See You Again a: a: sir
‘ Easy to imagine this cropping up on = evening radio, and, indeed the band
getting a slot on TF/ Friday. Make of that what you will. Nicer than a lot of the stuff that does, though, primarily
j because of the Dan Dare and the
Mysterons-type keyboard gluing the whole thing together. A wee bit like early Charlatans, come to think of it. (DL)
(Available by mail order Cheques/PO ~ for [3 made payab/e to M. Da/y, sent
to PO Box 76, G/asgow GI SAD)
REVIEWERS THIS ISSUE:
; Norman Chalmers, Thom Dibdin,
Roger Evans, Damien Love, Kenny Mathieson, Fiona Shepherd, Malcolm
Stewart, Jonathan Trew.
STAR RATINGS
* r it * * Unmissable
it t r: tr Very 00d
1 t * Wort a shot
‘ tr Below average
4r You've been warned
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Peace and Noise (Arista) «- v: si- 7:
Patti Smith’s career is now into its third phase; the first represented by four albums she recorded '75-'79, the second being the unfocused years shrouded in rumour and reclusion marked only by the release of the elusively textured Dream Of Life in 1988. Now,
; definitively returned from that
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Again much as Radio Ethiopia did Horses.
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’1959' and 'Dead City'. Similarly, again, this is perhaps a less immediate collection than its predecessor, but there is more a feeling of unity, or, more to the point, narrative, about the album as a whole. 'Death Singing’ sounds
i exactly as its title suggests. 'Last Call‘, a cyclic meditation on the Heaven's
(Mercedes Hopper)
Gate cult suicide is among the most affecting of Smith's recordings. And listen to that voice - it’s suddenly become clear that in Patti Smith we have the finest blues singer for a world peering over the millennial edge.
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