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bristling dementia is layered
through it, courtesy of several
sporadic psychotic outbursts.

To get to the point, Somewhere
in America There's A Street Nam-
ed After My Dad, conjures the
possible in an eloquent bit of
Was-wish-fuifilment, ‘No more
bland TV dinners, No 10-car colli-
sions, No showbiz beginners,
Making global decisions, No day-
care Fellinis, No fast-food
assassins, No billboard bikinis, Just
truth and compassion.”

Spy In The House Of Love, pro-
vides a brilliantly-twisted extended
metaphor you can dance to. Earth
To Doris offers a slice of American
kitsch culture delivered in terms of
a sleuth movie wise guy voice-over
barked out by a sinister Liberace
sound-alike.

Of course there's lots more and
it’s all great.

Sweet Honey In The Rock — At
Carnegie Hall, Flying Fish Re-
cords/Festival Records 1988

You are Bushed by the election
news to the south of you and
you've been Vander slammed in
the solar plexus just once too often
this year.

Hearing these Washington D.C.
women will help re-balance the

From the
Beaujolais area ...
a special selection
of dishes.

spiritual scales. The songs on the
double-disc release were recorded
live at the fabled Carnegie Hall just
one year ago. Powerful a cappella
voices of conscience, the ensem-
ble sings black traditional songs,
songs embracing global human
rights struggles and songs that
speak of the healing power of
love.

Together the voices mesh ele-
menis of gospel, soul, and
African-rooted culture to produce
an intricately-exultant choral ex-
pression.

As harmony has been honed to
a fine craft. so too has a knack for
collecting and then singing songs
with unequivocal social messages.

Among the songs on this release
given musical and spiritual wing is
Song Of The Exiled, a poem by
Alicia Partnoy, who was once jail-
ed in Argentina and counted
among the disappeared. The Bi-
ble’s Matthew 5:3-12 is adapted by
the group on Beatitudes. Dr. Mar-
tin Luther King is addressed in an
adaptation of an epic poem writ-
ten by Sonia Sanchez to com-
memorate the civil rights leader’s
58th birthday. Multinationals, the
international debt, apartheid and
world peace all find a place centre
stage on the album.

You'll be hard pressed to find

+ more truthful music elsewhere.

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from
November 47th on.

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