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ELTIC SPIRIT visited;
Orhb’s in the house;
Gibbens debuts with

friends.

Loreena McKennitt — The

Visit, Quinian Road/WEA 1991

Pristine vocal delivery and harp
presented with earthy Celtic flair
should make The Visit an appeal-
ing release to those looking for a
change of pace.

This is the Manitoba native’s
fourth release on her own record
jabel. WEA has picked it up to give
it the distributive push it deserves.

The selections are suitably
romantic, steeped in mist and
haunting history.

Prime selections include an
11-minute musical version of the
Alfred Lord Tennyson poem Lady
of Shallot; a passionate blue take
of King Henry Vill's Greensleeves;
Cymbeline, McKennitt’s music and
William Shakespeare’s lyrics —
“Golden lads and girls all must,
as chimney sweepers, come to
dust.”

The Visit is a deeply evocative
trip to another time.

McKennitt plays the Orpheum
Wednesday, Nov. 27.

The Orb’s Adventure Beyond

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Michael Becker
RECORD REVIEW

The Ultraworld, Attic Records
1991

Great concept, dodgy delivery.

The Orb is the brainchild of
former London ciub DJ Alex
Paterson. A house mixmaster, he’s
preduced and mixed for Primal
Scream, Art of Noise and Erasure.
He also did a stint with Jim Cauty
before he split to form The KLF.

This Ultraworld trip might be
telegraphically described as a
melding of Kraftwerk and Soul Ii
Soul.

At 70 minutes-plus, the general
effect is one of music relegated to
the role of home decorating ac-
cessory. The concert takes the
listener through a number of
“earth orbits’ and on to a final

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segment dubbed ulzraworld probe
eight (a huge ever growing
pulsating brain that rules from the
centre of the ultraworld).

The mixes, although generally
mesmerizing once you let your
own brain disconnect, stretch
thinly as metaphorical space
altitude and maximum space at-
titude is attained.

Jammed in among the in-
strumental atmospherics is a fine
soulful reggae surprise -- Perpet-

Geoff Gibbons, Energy Discs
Records 1991

The North Shore musician
shines brightest when his brand of
country-flavored folk rock trans-
ports the listener to the core of the
matter — heartache, recrimina-
tion, the spurning, the yearning.

The lead singer for Silverlode
shows a sure melodic and lyrical
touch with songs like Ribbons And
Chains. (Watch out for that soul in

HARPIST LOREENA McKennitt
enchants with her album The
Visit, which inctudes  sefec-
tions from Tennyson and
Shakespeare.

chains!): ‘She's left me to pay for
the dance, holdin’ those shadows
so tightly so long, they’ve melted
to time on my hands.”

Among the many local musical
friends who contribute to the solo
debut — Robbie Steininger on
guitars, Chris Nordquist on drums,
Dave Taylor on bass, singer Pat -.
Corroy, exotic instrumentalist
Randy Raine-Reusch, percussionist
Sal Ferraras.

The disc is available at A&B,
A&A and Silver Disc record stores.

Catch Gibbons live at the
Commodere 9 p.m., Wednesday
Oct. 23 for an evening of “roots
rock’ with Gibtons, Jonny and
the Stickmen and the Carolyn
Arends Band.

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