11/19/08
ROCK PAPER SCISSORS
GENTICORUM/La Bibournoise: Take Cajun music, turn it inside out and sent it back to Quebec with a sense of humor, let some jokers with chops propel the proceedings and you have the kind of set that belongs on NPR but is just a touch too feisty for those moldy figs in the the programming department. Nutty stuff from life’s little journeys through the looking glass, this bunch of northern dadas deliver the punch in a 60s come 00s kind of way that the young and clever should love.
SIX DEGREES
ALICE RUSSELL/Pot of Gold: After giving us a healthy dose of all those world beat darlings from the southern hemisphere, the label turns it’s gaze northward for a solo debut of a jazzy lady that has worked with noizemakers and melody makers alike giving her the diverse resume that adds up to her landing at this place and time in a soulful/jazzy white girl thing bottomed by her chops as a hard working vocalist intent on doing it all. There might be a lot of borrowed vocal iconography, but Russell knows how to cook her own stew and this is sure to be the adult listening antidote to original fans that are getting tired of the Norah Jones vibe in this lane.
DVD SUPPLEMENT
CULT EPICS
GITANE DEMONE Life After Death: It wasn’t her thin vocals or hungry, talented boyfriends that put Madonna over the top, it was her uncanny ability to bring lite kink to tourists making them feel naughty, outré and opening their mind to the possibilities they thought only they harbored. And then there’s Demone. From the look of things, this nastier “sister” of Madonna might well have been the inspiration into Madonna’s alter ego, Dita. Something of a Madonna look alike with a passion for fetish fashion as well as serving up the smoky underside of cabaret life, we know we have no problems with a gal that doesn’t mind being blind folded and wagging her ass up in the air. Covering a decade of Demone’s performances across the 90s, it’s about time she came up from the underground and got her shot at bringing kink less lite to the masses that might now be ready for her cross pollinated genre splicing that results in an experience uniquely Demone. Wonderful experimental stuff, and not in a church basement kind of way.
Volume 32/Number 19
November 19, 2008
MIDWEST RECORD
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