super Fly tu Brake Curtis Mayfield — Super Fly (1999 Rhino /Warner R2 75863) Music category Baaad-ass creamy funkifica- tion. Rhino Records bigwig David Gorman calls Super the “black Set. Pepper's.” T glowing assessment is not far off the mark. Few soundtracks: manage to stand up as creative state- ments once stripped of the images they were meant to accompany. Even fewer stand the test of tiz: Fly does both and at the hows us just how slapdash wretched most contemporary movie soundtracks have become Mayfield took the ser play writer’s script and sketched musical character studies of the key players in writer Phillip Fenty’s tale of drug-culture woe, The mu cal arrangements are impecea- ble, incorporating a congo- driven mix of horns, strings, funky bass lines and wah-wah guitar. Mavfield’s silky voice brings it all together. The disc comes with nvo bonus tracks — the single mixe, of — million-selling Freddie’s Dead and Superfly. ~—— Michael Becker wkee Mukta— Indian Sitar & World Jazz Acoustic & Remixed Tracks (1999 Warner Music France 2 26688) Music category: Beat happy sitar on a jazz joyride. Two CDs explore nwo approaches to bringing the textures a sitar can create to the traditional jazz palette of trumpet, bass clarinet drums and bass. Disc Onc is by these Laurdlb, Tan Sunday Sept 26 11:30am & 2:00pm a ' ae = ancouer Wind Frio Sunday October 24 14:30am & 2:00pm The Ferny Stuff Circus iy Stull Cire 21 17:30am & 2:00pra four musicians from France (Jean Chevalier, Simon Mary, Brigitte Menon and Geoftroy Tami at-ahead acoustic. Wo features remixes by hop and ambi- ent DJs. — Michael Recker GB xxe% The Sprague Brothers — Let The Chicks Fall Where They May (1999 HighTone Records HCD8102) Music catego- ry: Politically incorrect sesnabily. The Spragu. us back to a time y quite OK to call gals chicks"; when it was right to ats take nit was like wide cars with big motors and fat slicks that tore trenches into asphalt when you stomped the pedal to the metal; «vhen it was cool to say you dug rock. These flat-cop roots-rock- ers — Frank (the elder) on vocals and guitar, and Chris (the younger) on vocals and drums — hail from Wichita Rick Stole Sunday December 19 #4 11:30am & 2:00pm te 12300 Loinse icNarth: Vancouver Bo es siand the te California. Shades of The Everley Brothers, Buddy Holly and the y Roy Orbison bust out of the tracks. The Spragues avoid the trap of pale tribute and instead crackle with raw authenticity. A tasty bit of trivia: many of the songs on this dise were recorded at Radio Recorders in Holywood. Stravinsky, Little Richard, The rockabilly Collins Kids, Everley Brothers and Elvis (who did Jailhouse Rock there) all made music there. — Michael Becker #iteokek sx Death in Vegas — The Contino Sessions (1999 Time Bomb 70930- 43521) Music category: Velvet bloody valentine. The linc between pop, dub and alternative is blurred beyond recognition on the new Death in Vegas CD The Contino Sesstons. Richard Fearless and Tim Sunday Jon 16 11:30am & 2:00pm {Ages £ > 12 years} 3 show subscriation $40.00 3 show packago $27.00 Single show tickets $9.50 Subscriptions & pack- ages on sale September 1st Single Show tickets on scle Septernber 15th Holmes have fashioned an album of disembodied pop culture from their London studios. Friends sitting in include Primal Sercam’s Bobby Gillespie, Jesus and Mary Chain’s Jim Reid and the godfather of punk himself Iggy Pop. Recommended. — John Goodman & Paris Techno Parade— House and Techno compila- tions (1999) Music catego- ry: Street life celebration Paris’ second annual Techno Parade takes place tomorrow starting at 6 a.m. (Vancouver time) at the Place de la République. More than 40 floats/dance floors are expected to take part this year — in 1998 over 200,000 techno fans partied on the strects with even more expected on Saturday. Go to their Website at