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Michael Becker
RECORD REVIEW

TOMPIN' TOM

keeps it Canadian;

Zap Mama zips
along with voices; a relaxed
Monee sings campfire

songs. .

StoMpin’ Tom Connors —
Kic (Keep It Canadian)
Along With Stompin’ Tom,
EMI 1993

“Oh the good ald hockey
game Is the best game you can
name, and the best game you can
name is the good old hockey

ame!” Mr. Canada concisely
sums Up a nation’s obsession in
2:28 with nary a penalty in The
piuckey Song.

EMI has been busily re-releasing
the Stompin’ Tom catalogue. Kic
Along is the most recent compila-
tion Of hard-earned, plain-spoken

jsdom, This folksy treasure is «
stacked with tributes, working-
mani Ministrations and actual,

eat-life Canuck catastrophes. :

Highlights from the man with
the Bnarled face and force-of- :
nature voice include Muckin’ ;
slushers (A Damned Good Song

&

For A Miner) and Handy-Man
Blues (The | Don’t Know How To
Fix The Damned Thing Blues).
Zap Mama — Adventures In
Afropea 1, Warner Bros. 1993

A cappella music presented by
five talented women based in
Brussels who specialize in making
the most of the original musical
instrument, the human voice, is
made all the more remarkable
given the context; Belgium is
techno-music central for dance-
crazed young Europeans.

The group was formed by
Zairean Marie Daulne. Her study
of Arabic, Asian and African
polyphony, and her background in
traditional African song and Cath-
olic chorales, enriches the cultural
scope of this roots music project.

The disc includes Mupepe,
taken from a central African

im’ Tom

Pygmy chant; Abadou, based on a
Syrian song; Din Din, a 16th cen-
tury Spanish song; and several
songs from Zaire,

There is much pure rhythmical
joy and celebration to be heard
here,

Michael Nesmith — Tropical
Campfires, MCA 1993

He once was a Monkee, but
now he’s a smoothie crooner and
an accomplished producer.

Trapical Camptires is a little bit
cowboy and a whole lotta relaxed,

It's twilight time in the desert as
Nesmith and friends on pedal steel
guitar, percussion, mandolin, bass
and keyboard, hunker down by
the glowing embers and ease in
with — yes, Michael has chosen to
name his publishing company
Peaceful Music for that is what this

essentially is — gracefully peaceful.

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