You forgot first != best
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Tim Moore
On Sep 5, 2004, at 10:43 AM, Luis-Manuel Garcia wrote:
quoted 66 lines new != better
>
> new != better
>
> novelty != authenticity
>
> cheers,
> Luis
>
> On Sunday, September 5, 2004, at 09:09 AM, Alan Lucas wrote:
>
>> 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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