Stompin’ Tom wails
in the name of patriotism

MICHAEL
BECKER

record review

OM WALKS with
pride; Rai rebels rouse
rabble; stars sing for
angels.
Stompin’ Tom — A Proud Ca-
nadian, Capitol Records 1990

Tom Connors is back and just in
the nick of time, what with the
uprisings and all.

Do we asa nation look to our
political leaders in times of con-
stitutional convulsion? Heck no,
fellow northerner. The real man of
the people is a cowpoke who
wears a chiselled face and sings
The Ketchup Song and ot a Sud-
bury Saturday Night and the tam-
ed Gumboot Clorgeroo,

in chronicling the peculiar cul-
tural vagaries of the country, the
nasal-voiced nomad has quite
naturally evolved to become a
man of coast-spanning vision.

This release represents a taste at
the massive 32-album output and
a bit of (according to the rather
bombastic liner notes) “the eter-
nal glowing residue ot a patriot’s
burning passion tor his land, its
people and their way ot life.”
Chaba Fadela And Cheb
Sahraoui — Hana Hana, Island
Records 1989

The Algerian pop superstars
brought Rai to the rock-raised
rabble earlier this year at the Town

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Gumboot Cloggeroo.

Pump. Hana Hana sees Cheb and
Chaba moving a notch turther
trom the traditional, investing
heavily in svathesizers and studio
Hash,

Yet in Fadela, who ts said to be
the most pnpuiar temale Rai singer
working her pipes this side of
Oran these days, the compelling
force of sheer vocal brilliance re-
mains untarnished.

Highlights here are the title cut
Hana Hana and N’Sel Fik (89 Min).
Lyrics included with the disc shaw
the group groping through the
same tortuous territory travelled
by most western pop practitioners
— sentimental matters of the
heart.

But mundane expression turns
kooky sublimity when passed
through the wringer of haphazard
translation: ‘““My eyes saw this
good looker and my heart was

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Nobody's Child — Romanian
Angel Appeal, WEA 1990

Stellar omnibus ettorts are usual:
Iv something to be avoided at all
Cost,

You have vour worthy cause
you have your convergence of
empathic mega-star egos, vou
have your hoisting oF the guilt
thins. Sublly-orchestrated media
hype tries hard to get joe Public's
internal monolgue to BO some-
thing like this: “Golly. this must
be the mavement 1 missed in the
1960s. Perhaps tt} purchase this
release f will snatch a glimmering
of the grand cause and maybe Ul
teel a bit better about myselt and
the inherent integrity of rock
musicians.”

So the Romanian Angel Appeal.
a benevolent baby born of Beales
wives Olivia Harrison, Linda Me-
Cartney, Yoko Ono and Barbara
Bach, presents 16 groups and per-
tormers as contributors to a fund-
raising effort for thousands ot
Romanian orphans.

While the cause is coherent, the
musical selection is touch and go.
The stars shoot off in all directions.
Bally Idol's ians will have to live
with the Bee Gees. Duane Eddy
alicionados must muscle up to
Guns N’ Roses.

For those who spend fittul nights
wondering just how great it would
be to hear a new song by the
Traveling Wilburys, toss no more.

he wandering guys, minus the
man in black, go country with
Lonnie Donnegan’s Nobody's
Child.

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