new != better
novelty != authenticity
cheers,
Luis
On Sunday, September 5, 2004, at 09:09 AM, Alan Lucas wrote:
quoted 46 lines I have yet to hear the new Bjork, but it's too bad that there are a
> I have yet to hear the new Bjork, but it's too bad that there are a
> lot of people out there who think she's done some amazingly new and
> original thing.
>
> Kracfive records was doing the same thing three years ago. Check out
> Original Instrument:
>
> http://www.kracfive.com/content/index.php?release=kfat009cd.htm
>
>
> On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 23:06:27 -0500, Luis-Manuel Garcia
> <lgarcia@uchicago.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Has anybody else picked up the new Bjork album yet? I'm still in the
>> middle of my "listen repeatedly" phase, but I'm really warming up to
>> it. There's lots of great tracks and, as someone who studied voice
>> and
>> did a lot of non-western singing styles, I'm fascinated by what she
>> did
>> with the human voice. Most of the tracks are close to entirely vocal
>> samples of various sorts, although some of these make use of digital
>> transformations to create granular and oddly-pitched effects. I'm
>> guessing that track 6 ("Who is it") will be her most accessible
>> ballad-hit, while track 14 ("Triumph of a Heart") will be remixed for
>> the dancefloor over and over. The album isn't for everyone, I
>> suppose,
>> but I'm really loving it.
>>
>> cheerio,
>> Luis
>>
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