Listener beware: Swans songs are dike ‘black holes’ BLACK SWANS do the slow burn; Wainwright Ill turns to therapy. **** Swans — The Burning World, UNi Records 1989 Producer-bassist. Bill Lasweil, who gave us last year’s drearay East meets West New Age fusion music on his Hear No Evil album, swims with Swans for a stunningly depressing release. Swans lead singer Michael Gira, a dead monotone deliverer of relentlessly bleak vision and despairing emo- tional resonance, continues where dead rock vocalist lan Goy Divi- sion) Curtis left off. MICHAEL Se BECKER record review Listener beware — the songs ‘here are black holes for beating hearts. Take this passage from the cut (She's a) ‘Universal Emptiness — pay special attention, you . blindly cheerful walking-talking Barbies and Kens: ‘‘And she sits there by the wall; making holes - where | just stood; and her hands ‘they touch her face; like her.face is made of wood; and she haids ‘on to a memory; of something ! never said; but she still can’t quite remember; if my eyes are blue or dead... What's one man’s flagellation is another's entertainment, and so, this collection warks nicely as catharsis, Just remember to do your sulking alone and with the lights out. - Musicians from Laswell’s solo venture are along for the ride here, with Shankar on double vio- nurrated five in. person by: JOE ADAIR . 9 Films For The Price Of 6! a CANADA’S NTNL. PARKS: x ALASKAN AUTUMN & GREAT CITIES OF EUROPE ‘te HAWAII % AFRICAN SAFARI ate 5, 65.35, ans . ‘yas Ss. $1}, i, 10.50, 9.50, Ste. S715 Dis iadede Fordity Fea North Van. lin, Nicky Skopelitis on bazouki and Aiyb Dieng on percussion. Swans keyboard player Jarboe adds her blue voice to take the lead on the chilling / Remember Who You Are, anc to an evocative cover version of Steve Winwood’s Can‘t Find My ‘Way Home. Dark passion fuels the fire in this burning world. But the flames consume light rather than set it free. ** Loudon Wainwright Ill — - Therapy, Silvertone Records 1989 Ever since that capricious dead skunk turned up in the middle of the road stinkin’ to high heaven, Wainwright Il has been pumping it out in semi-obscurity to a loyal clique. “In addition to a great song about therapy, calied quite appropriately - enough, Therapy, the album Therapy offers some revealing moments. The session explores the artist's response to father, ‘‘in the long _ run they always screw up’’; fickle fame, ‘there he goes, there's what’s-his-name. We saw him on TV"; and the industry acceptance _ .of music such as his, the kind that ’ “calls for listening skills to enjoy it We've got manufacturers who want |help pay your advertisin ‘PRODUCER-BASSIST Bil! Laswell joins the Swans for a dark, depressing release. to best advantage, “‘they’re not sure you can grasp it, they don’t give you much credit.” In between the good and in- sightful bits are some not-so-good bits — the lyrical moments where Wainwright Ill’s tongue in cheek goes a little soft and drops the theme of obsessions. Ex-Fairport * Conventioneer Richard Thompson lays on some mandolin and guitar tracks to keep things musically in- teresting. eee a & REGGAE GREAT Burning Spear makes an appearance Saturday Sent. 16 at the Commodore with world beat tribalists The Bonedaddys for a promising even- ing of roots riddum roundup. The . Bones are currently heating up Californian clubs and have a wild and crazy release out with A&M called Hey Hey We're The . Bonedaddys. 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