34- -North Shere News — Friday, December 8, 2000 Pd Harvey’ S$ Si “ Joha Goadman” “This Week Editor _ goodmanEnsnews.con 1) PY Harvey: Stories from the Ci: #5 Stories From the Sea” (Islan: Classic Dock trio with long- : time collaborators Mick .- - Harvey and Rob Ellis. Like the great blues artist that she _is Harvey makes universal ‘ themes part of her own story. Unserdling, unforgenable. “ Maybelle and Helen Hume are just some of the icons filtered through Miss Thing’s time machine. Lavay Smith and Chris Siebert are sensational musicmakers. . 3) The Legendary Marvin -Pontiae — Greatest Hits (Straage and Beautiful . Music) ~ Lounge Lizard extraordi- | naire John Lutie constructs the story of a fictional "African bluesman on this ‘greatest hits” package. An ‘ensemble of great avant _ garde musicians (including John Medeski, Marc Ribot, Calvin Weston) play it . straight — deadpan, heart- felt, sublime. Contact «strangeandbeautiful.com> 4) Thievery Corporation: The Mirror Conspiracy | (4AD) ~. Down tempo DJs create a _ very un-American sound * from their Washington, DC studios. Dub, bossa nova, - - Indian sitars, Latin percus- :. sion are’all grist fur Rob’) ~ Garza and Eric Hilton's perform the works on origi- na! instruments. The CD comes with a 38-page book- let on the origins of classical klezmer music. Contact . 8) Broadcast: The Noise Made By People (Warp Records) Birmingham, England’s Broadcast go to the margins of rock on their debut CD. Ethereal vocalist Trish Keenan floats in and out of an electronica mix that ries best refers to old and new approaches. 9) John Corbett: Unbeard Music Series (Atavistic) Chicago writer/producer John Corbett released cight albums in a new Unheard Music Series that unearths previously unissued or rare recordings from the ’60s and *7@s. Corbett is one of the most important people currently working “behind the scenes” in jazz. He was in Vancouver last summer An arts and heritage miliennitim project that commemorates and links }2 historically significant sites with interpretive prints. West Vancouver Museum: & Archives’ 680 7th Street, West Vancouver —Y/ V7V 3T20° Ph. 925.7293: y ae | For more ft with the Chicago/European free jazz contingent and is. an integral part of impro- vised music’s resurgence. The Unbheard series intro- duces us to great early recordings from musicians like Peter Brotzmann, Fred Anderson and the Tchicai- Schweizer Group. Contact’ . 10) Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks: Beatin’ the Heat (Surf Dog Records) An acerbic wit singing his ~pasrtses Gorempin e hunch know-it-all observations over gypsy jazz with back- ground singers (“the Lickettes”} answering in call and response harmonies. No colioquialism or cliche is safe from Dan the Man’s deadly turn of phrase. The music has a timeless quality thar never gets tired — twenry years forgotten with the snap of a finger. Tom Waits, Elvis Costelio and .- Rickie Lee Jones are among : the celebrities that get to sit in with Dan. information pise cal 525 7297 . (Eighteenth Street) founge aesthe oy - @ WSneSeNsR 2 ateeeman erento aes point for thie ‘own exploration of 730s and 740: 22: Billi Holiday, Big 5)! World Saxophone . Quartet: Requser for. Julins Justin Time) Jazz masters celebrate the’ vitife of their late colleague. Julius Hemphill, one of the. ° WSQ's founding members. All of the. pieces are new. . compositions focussing on Hemphill’s funky, semiaal .: work’as’a central ‘theme. Recorded for Montreal ‘so ; vital Justin Time label.” thing right as they remake. rock in their own image. |. Thirteen takes from a pop: pantheon tuned to the ‘00s ; ( (Smithsonian/Folkways). Half of these A9th-century:, Jewish ‘Klezmer compositions |” are recorded here for th first tine. The Khevrisa. ensemble led. by Steven Greenman ai dq Zev Feldman Fax. 925.5915, oY < Mactng Phe Ueomem ” ates