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of Dusty Springfield

(Mercury Records 1998 314
558 208- 2)

Mary Isabel Catherine
Bernadette OCF died tows
soon, Yet the British saver
known to most as Duss
Springtield has left a lasting
pop music legacy

tracks on this retrospective
give us a caste of much of it,
Many of the high-iling
his from 1963 to 1969 show
up here. Hal David and Burt
Bacharach did some of their
best work with Dusty and
were

belting out the songwriting
team's Wishin’ and | Hopin’ and
The Look of Lav:

Good music will stand the
test of time. The Verv Best of”
Dusty Springfield proves the
point with cloguence and
sophistication.

Mxetxkk VYat-Kha— Dalai
Beliiri (Wicklow/BMG
1999 09026-63351-2)
Siberian descendants of the
tribes that rode with Gengis
Khan ride a dark horse with
this wild and compelling con-
coction. Tuva Republic is
located north of Mongolia.
Yat-Kha was formed by one of

the regions top singers, Albert
Kavezin.
This exotic hybrid is a far
y from the strety folklore.
Traditional instruments. for
example a owo-string horse
hair cello and Tuvan throat
singing -— called khoomei —
blend surprisingly natural
with western ousical emt
ishment such as the electric
guitar, bass
However it’s the voices
that ultimarely hold the atren-
he skin.

Houston. Equal measures
corporeal and ethereal, there is
ssential beauty in the melan
cholic tones.

When Kuvezin reaches
deep into the cellar of his
voice its like nothing most
mortals have heard before.

awesome. Once of the scariest
tracks you”Hl hear anywhere has
to be Sodom ¢ Gomora, a trad-
tional song performed with
voices and percussion only
from the Sraro Vera (Old
Believers) book of spiritual
poetry.

@ &&* The Cranberries —
Bury The Hatchet Island
1999 314-524 611-2}
Dolores O'Riordan Burton
still has one of the most inter-
esting voices from the Emerald
Ise, bur Bury The Hatchet
finds The Cranbe ries in th
mood 70 co
come before rather than will-
ing to risk a hit of evolution.
We are lett with some sim-
ple, pretty songs — Jist My
Imagination — to name the
best, and some “angry” songs
sperate Andy — that
come off a tad too breezy to
ting true as honestly cathartic
exercises.

— Michael Becker

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