26 — Wednesday, December 2, 1992 - North Shore News

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Soulless sweets

Deep disco from the syrupy *70s

ISCO DAWNS
again; Stone Roses
singles picked; john
Cale shows his spooky side.
Various Artists — Disco
Classics Vol. 1}, BMG Music
1992
Dust off the platform shoes and
glitter-Dalls, the polyster powers
at be are attempting to revive
disco. There is much of this music
in the vaults of jabels such as
BMG.

The boogie cogie-genie is being
pumped from the bottle in
measured, orgasmic doses.

Blame it on the voracious samp!-
ing habits of the new kids on the
dance-music scene.

Blame it on the nasty habit aging
boomers have of exhuming social
trends best left in the compost
heap.

Blame it on those who wore
Disco Sucks! T-shirts: for bad is
ultimate'y good when staking out
generational turf.

Disco Classics Vol. 1 resurrects
the likes of Village Peopie,

Inc. Chic, Barry White and cen udja
Barry.

Apparently 18- to 25-year-olds

are eating this up, hence volume

wo.
In hindsight the earthy funk of

some of the tracks does stand the
test of time. Kitsch-culture can be
fun, but the bulk of the cuts show
themselves for what they always
will be, soulless sweets for the
programmed masses.
The Stone Roses — Turn To
Stone — Silvertone Records
1992

_ Fervent fans of this U.K. outfit
should be happy that these
erstwhile import-only tracks were
picked for this fluorescent bouquet

Michael Becker
RECORD REVIEW

of singles.

Like many of the current crop of
progressive bands to surface from
Manchester, The Stone Roses’
stock-in-irade is grounded in a
synthesis of fey psychedelia and a
detached, unhurried spin on hip-
hop as expressed within the acid
house movement.

Some cf the nascent stuff repre-
sented here teeters on the edge of
foppish irrelevance.

The extended-jam tracks, the
ones where the band locks on a
groove and rides it like a Hendrix-
ian monster, reveal the appeal.
John Cale — Fragments o
Rainy Season, Hannibal Records
1992

The defining tone of Fragments
ofa Rainy Season i is sombre and
elegiac. It’s a simply presented live
set featuring an uneasy man, an
abused piano and a spooked in-
tensity.

A packet of well-chosen songs
fuels the fire.

Cale casts his spell with the help
of Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go
Gentle Into That Good Night, Lie
Still Sleep Becalmed, and On A
Wedding Anniversary: Brian Eno,
Cordeba: Elvis Presley, Heartbreak
Hotel, and Leonard Cohen,
Hallelujah.

Feast of music presented

(T WOULEN'T be Christmas
without music. North Shore resi-
dents can get into the Yuletide
spirit early this year by attending a
feast of music Dec. 12 and 13.

The North Shore Chorus is
hosting two Christmas concerts at
Mount Seymour United Church
featuring special guests ihe North
Shore Chamber Orchestra.

The evening program includes
Vivaldi’s Magnificat, Brahms’
Lullaby and Mozart’ s Ave Verum
Corpus.

The North Shore Chamber Or-
chestra, under the baton of

Philippe Etter, will also perform
Handel’s Pastoral Symphony and
exe:pts from Mozart’s Eine Kleine
Nachtmusik. .

The chorus will be joined. this
year by three school choirs in a
Christmas caro! sing-along.

Collingwood Junior Chamber
Choir performs Dec. 12, followed
by the Seymour Heights lnterme-
diate Chow and Lord Selkirk [n-
termediate Choir on Dec.13.

All concerts are held at Mount
Seymour United Church at 7:30
p.m. Tickets are available at the
door.

an afternoon or evening of

CHAMBER MUSIC

Young Musician’s Concert featering soloist
Robin Streb, viola
Performing Telemann’s Concerto for biola da braccio, 2 violins and bass
accompanied by the Pro Nova Ensemble

Works from Haydn, John Verrall, and Dvorak will also be played

Other guest artists include
Aurora Felde, violin and Ann Statford, bass

Thursday, December 3, 7:30 p.m.
Ferry Building, West Vancouver
and
Sunday, December 6, 2:30 p.m.
Mc. Seymour United Church, 1200 Parkgate, North Vancouver
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