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Banco de Gaia Maya (Attic Records)

Wow! Cool! I am totally in love with this CD! I want to know why I haven’t heard of these people before.

The music on this recording is really hard to find on PEI, and I’m really glad that it made its way into the newspaper office and into my waiting hands. It’s the kind of music that you only hear at an ultra-chic dance club, or on a tour of the rave scene in a big city.

This is an oversimplification, but the tracks on this CD are made up of two basic parts. First there is an underbeat, consisting of all sorts of digital blips and bangs, which provides a trance feel to each tune. Overlaid are samples from a veritable cornucopia of sources, including everything from asian and arabic choruses to horror films and British wildlife documentaries.

This is an excellent recording. It would be a fine addition to the music collection of any alternative dance music aficionado.

(5)

--Steve Ellis

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Gregory Gray Euroflake in Silverlake

Gregory Gray says of his latest album Euroflake in Silverlake, ‘‘Ultimately it’s just really f---ed up pop music.’’ The ultimate question for the listener is which is

the more astute description -- ‘‘f---ed up’’ or ’. In Gray’s case, the two terms

**pop music’ are interchangeable.

This overproduced and nauseatingly pop-like disc is the latest effort in Gray’s decade-long career. Unfortunately, he doesn’t seem to have learned much. Every song is jammed with the 1980s pseudo- reggae brass lines, and Gray’s own insipid lyrics and vocals are reminiscent of Feargal Sharkey. This is fine, except no one likes

Feargal Sharkey. He has walked the path of

the embarrassing one-hit wonder which

Gray should have trod ten years ago. If you

see this album, run in the opposite direction -- Geraldine Quinn

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K.C. and the Sunshine Band and Silver Convention Greatest Dance Hits

It’s disco. It’s a full hour of the most mindbendingly stupid music ever recorded. A full hour endorsing nothing but boogie, boogie, boogie. The same riffs and words, over and over again, one song blending hellishly into another, sucking one back to the age of white, sequined leisure suits and bell bottoms and mutton-chop sideburns. Be afraid.

Why does disco make so many of us want to kill and destroy and rend and maim? Is it just the clothes, or do the weird repeti- tive synthesized notes subliminally induce murderous frenzy?

Actually, the current techno craze is pretty much identical. Current popular techno bands like Rednex and Nikki French can be seen as the bastard children of disco, with better synthesizers and a computer to repeat the lyrics for them (thus saving them the painful wear on the vocal cords encoun- tered by the BeeGees and the Village People).

With techno as with disco, I can say only this: kill it before it spawns again.

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Femi Kuti’s latest self-titled disc be worth checking out for jazz or soul fan looking for something a little different. Those of you hoping for a second Lion Ki soundtrack should avoid this one. Using seventeen member band to produce a hea jazz influence was enough to make this listener long for disco to make a comebag

-- Lorne Caborn

D’ Angelo’s Brown Sugar -- his de album produced, written and performed | himself would have proven to be more profitable if he had chosen to stick to the performance part. Help on tracks from Raphael Saadig of Tony!Tone!Toni! and of A Tribe Called Quest allow escape fro some of the more immature lyrics but thi CD should still only be purchased by the serious soul fan or someone hard-up for

juicin’ music. 3 -- Lorne Caborn Mighty Real by various artists.

contains some of the more notable tacks from the best-forgotten era of disco. Mu to my dismay I not only recognized man the songs, I even liked some of them. Di freaks and the slightly curious should ch this one out, especially since the proceed go to AIDS research. My hope is that thi doesn’t mark a comeback for disco, I th out all my Saturday Night Fever costumé

-- Lorne Caborn

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