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music

Ure’s songs are all strong and bristle

URE ANSWERS nothing but
bids us to question; Aussies
explore the darker side of
their bright world; College
offers jazz big band buffet.

Midge Ure — Answers To
Nothing, Chrysalis Records/MCA
1988
The follow up to Ure's solo
release of three years ago, The
Gift, moves along with supple
#~ precision from the moment the
first note is popped off in the
bouncy title song, Answers To
Nothing.

MICHAEL
BECKER

music reviewer

The impassioned musings are
the result of 10 months spent re-
cording in his home studio.
Answers To Nothing is an act of
creative purging. As co-writer of
the Band Aid holiday hit Do They
Know It’s Christmas, and through
his work with the Live Aid famine
relief effort for Ethiopia, Ure has

figured largely as part of the trendy

pop music philanthropic phe-
nomenon. in part, the songs on
this release respond to despair
witnessed first-hand in Africa.
While the former Ultravox
guitarist and vocalist claims no
ar::wers, Cirection is offered in an
eppeal for “love for the lone-
ly...dgod for the hungry...peace in
a resifess world...hope for the
child:=n...a worldwide religion.”
The songs are all strong and
bristle with seductive pop hooks.
Ure’s self-production is unclut-
tered. There is much to like about
the release. The song Sister And
Brother is even easier to like with
the inclusion of spine-tingling
support vocals by Kate Bush.

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Hunters & Collectors — Fate,

IRS/MCA 1588

In the year when Midnight Ou
came burning in from the Aussie
Outback with its breakthrough
release Diesel And Oust, Hunters
& Collectors’ Fate LP was over-
shadowed and probably
overlooked by many.

Aside from Midnight Oil's bor-

rowing of the Hunters & Collec-
tors’ horn section for supercharg-
ed backup on the hit Beds Are
Burning, the two bands share a

ically uncompromising lyrics.

But while Midnight Oil chose to
focus on the plight of Australia’s
aboriginals, Hunters & Collectors
walks us along the bread line and
into a world defined by broken
dreams and populated by broken

preoccupation with penning polit-

people.

Raw guitars and lead singer
Mark Seymour's earnest outbursts
are given an elegiac sense of
dignity with a tasteful lacing of
brass throughout the LP.
Douglas College Jazz Band — At
This Point fa Time..., D.C. Re-
cords 1988

Students from the Douglas Col-
lege music programs, directed by
Blair Fisher and backed bv local

musicians including jazz hot

property Phil Dwyer, deliver a tas-

ty batch of jazz-style samplings.
The Douglas College jazz band

won first place in the 1986 Cana-

dian Stage Band Festival. This is

the fourth album recorded by the

college’s jazz bands.

The record is available

through Douglas College

Music, P.O. Box 2503, New

Westminster, B.C., V3L 5B2.

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