kal 4 ey bs pins Friday, October 13, 1998 - North Shore News - 19 Ben Harper fights for our hearts and minds on latest Michael review * Ben Harper — Fight For Your Mind, Virgin Records 1995 ; Disc number two from this 26- "year-old wise-old soul is a provoca- tive follow-up to 1994’s debut Welcome To The Cruel World. Fight For Your Mind is fueled by Harper’s potent moral integrity -— he’s up there with Bob Marley as far chop fast, these Langley punks are as Mint supreme Grant Lawrence puts it “tighter-than-my ginch-from- grade-one.” They use the f-word and the sh- word, burp and muke farting sounds but that’s okay because they are a likely voice of alienation. The kidney punches: come hard and mostly well under two minutes a shot. Oy, oy, ouch! Crank the volume, jump up and down on a bag of Rice Krispies, wrestle your gerbil, drink some juice and make it squirt out of your nose, whatever. Gob is’ aggressive and cathartic. It's the venting sound of a generational pressure valve.’ as speaking powerfully in'song for | social change and individual ‘responsibility. Head and heart are given much. The band’s: sensual’ rhythmic intensity punctuates the. word. The . body has something to imove on. The. singer-songwriter is an’ “accomplished acoustic guitar picker » and -brings additional warmth. and intensity to the texture of the tracks ‘playing ‘a Weissenborn, a. hotlow- “neck lap slide guitar, Gob —_ ~ Too: Late..: No Friends, ~ Mint Records, 1995 | _cycle of : .Dispatches from a dark and deca- : dent place in time, beginning with - Since the 1970s; David Bowie — Outside, Virgin Records 1995 Brian Eno, Bowie's collaborator for an oblique yet rewarding trio of discs released in the 1970s — Low, Heroes and Lodger — returns to produce and contribute synthesizer. treatment for what promises to be another trilogy Bowic calls “a hyper musical drama.” now, The Nathan: Adier Diaries are _ scheduled to be completed by 1999. Musicians on board for the pro- ject include Carlos Alomar, a gui- tarist who has worked with Bowie inventive Tin Machine guitarist Reeves Gabrels; Soul Asylum drummer Sterling Campbell; Erdai Kizilcay on bass ‘ and-keyboards. ~~ Musically the disc percolates along the squiggly jazz-funk struc- _ tures defined by Eno, who inspired the musicians with ominous direc- tives like “you are the last remaining survivor of a catastrophic event and you will endeavor to play in such a way as to prevent feelings of loneli- ness developing within yourself" Bowie — strides — purposefully toward the new millennium by reaching back, sifting through the detritus of his many past incarna- tions to bring us the good work. WINDS the folk musical four friends, their lives and the songs they used to sing «October 24 to New Year's $ Eve _ Starlight Theatre ” 935 Biman Street Weekday & Weekend Dinner and Show Packages starting at $37.50 at the English Bay Boathouse subject to availability—service charges apply—not valid with any other offer TicketMaster 280-3311 for group sales, call 733-7469 &ssential Steps to a more Passionate You’ve seen her on Oprah, don’t miss her North Shore appearance! Pat Love, Ed.D. teaches about sensuality and intimacy in.a-respectful, down to earth manner with a dash of good humour. Friday, October 27th, 1995 7:30 p.m. “@entennial Theatre - 2300 Lonsdale Avenue, N. Van. 984-4484 Tickets: $16.00 per person, available in advance at the theatre For anyone interested in a, Sponsored by: sOz strengthening a loving relationship, “Like no other R LATRINSHIPY RAP INC. experience, Hot Monogamy will give you the tools you need, to make the transition from EAMILY SERVICES of tie NORTH SHORE ‘romantic’ to ‘vintage’ love that grows deeper with time.”