é pe
Michael Becker

RECORD REVIEW

NEW native voice is

heard; Manchester’s

James gets better with
Eno; Enigma puzzles along.

Wapistan — Lawrence Martin,
Wawatay Recordings £993

Martin is the mayor of Sioux
Lookout, Ontario, and the execu~
tive director of the Wawatay
Native Communications Society,
an organization which provides
radio, television and newspaper
services to approximately 50
reserves throughout northern
Ontario.

He is the son of a Cree
woman and an Irishman.

Wapistan furthers the cause of
inter-cultural_ understanding
much in the way Charcoal Lane
provided a window to the
Australian aboriginal warld
through the frank talent of Archie
Roach.:

lronically both Roach, coming
from his Aborigine heritage, and

iP

QUALITY

SUSHI
Be.
SASHIMI

59% OFF

SUSHI HAPPY

Martin, a Cree, choose to encode
country music with First Nations
perspective,

in Martin’s case dabra and
fiddle find common ground with
Powwow drum and chants ina
Nashville recording studio. The
synthesis is a natural one given
Martin's personal slory and so
one hears on the disc the instru-
mental Celtic Nemowin (Celtic
Dance) and breezy two-stepping
country rock bearing snippets ot
indigenous mythology, Watwatay.

Wapistan shares the wasdom
of elders as well as the hard
lessons of repression and self-
destruction, Martin ultimately
settles for a direction of cautious
hope.

James — Laid, Fontana/Mercury
1993

_ With Laid, Brian Eno does for
James what he did for U2 with
the foshua Tree.

Laid advances the Manchester
band’s cause with a refinement
of sound and intensification of its
character.

Singer Tim Booth has always
had the knack of transforming
raw yearning to uplifting mantra.

Cao's meditative, mannered
elegance focuses ames.

The group’s celebratory
essence is lifted ta higher ground
than that reached sporadically on
the breakthrough release of Gold
Mother in 1990 and the follow-
up Seven in 1992,

beanges

Enigma 2 — The Cross of

Changes. Virgin 1993

Michael Cretu came out of
nowhere in 1990 with a weirdly
evocative pastiche of samples,
Gregorian chant and numbing
dance beat, MCMXC a.D. dic
incredibly well, moving 12 mil-
lion CDs across the world.

The Cross of Changes is basi-
cally a calculated reprise of the
debut outing. In this case, monk-
ish chants are replaced with
native chants and Arabic wails.
What passion there is in the
sources is dissipated in the soggy
new age wash. :

It's all a rather dubious amal-
gam of reincarnationist senti-
ment, comet chasing electronic
claptrap and First World guilt
messages.

Bring on the Etruscan hip-hop
string quartet Mr. Cretu!

WHILE QUANTITIES LAST

PACIFIC CIPy
LIGHTING LTD.
4702 E. HASTINGS ST. BBY

1 biock west of Happy Honda)
“Lighting up the West Coast in every way”

Phone 294-5256

atm

23

lteian Restaurant

pen for Lunch «
Dinner
Daily Specials...

We also serve Chicken, Veal

Steak & Ribs ;
“Large Portions for a small price” 8
#3 - Lonsdale, N.Van. 984-3337

EC

Manicure $12.00

Call Sharon
a

at
NAILS TODAY
980-1632

AER SLE

DAY
EVENING

*  PASPAROS
TAVERNA

Greek Food at its finest
Serving the North Shore since 1974

ROAST LAMB
‘GRILLED CHICKEN
GRILLED SALMON

“YOUR CHOICE FROM 3 OF

°Nalld Sun; thru: Thurs: Dinner only

Served with your choice of Greek Salad, Tzatzki,
Roast Potatoes or fresh dally vegetables
Hours: 7 days 4:00 p.m. until well into the night
Offer ends Feb, 28/94

132.West 3rd St., North Van. 980-0331

i

wo Se Se

NEY

. 8-Sided Bound Glass
Dining with Gownlight,
Clear Top Panels and
Glue Chip Skirt. 20°w

x 16"h
Sugg. List 1399

§-Sided Bound
Glass Foyer in
Clear with Glue
Chip Bands
Sugg. List '599
15'vi x 34°h

$4 Ages a
Flush Mount Ceiling

Light, Polished Brass

with Sparkle Glass

1, 8142
13”... S2D°°
is"... 52°

HOURS: Mon.-Sat. 9 a.m. to 5:30
Sunday 12 noon to 5 p.m.

CONF sche 5 Bree a7 Fh TE SATEEN . Pe AS