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...confuse “approachable” for “bland.” Frankie’s playing does border on the conservative side, but in his compositions, the depth of his musical knowledge emerges. The amorphous, ethereal introduction to “Mi Amiga Mi Amore” paid obvious homage to Miles Davis’ landmark album Sketches of Spain, and another self-composed number, “Smooth Ride,” has a lovely and palpably soothing warmth. Frankie always seemed more at home on his own compositions, extracting more complexity from their chord...
...abbreviated dirty funk treatment. Eguie Castrillo occupied a middle space on the congas, sometimes meshing with the rest of the rhythm section’s ideals, but at other times, seeming almost at odds with drummer Nomar Negron, who played drum set. On “Mi Amiga Mi Amore”, the two traded combative fours (four-bar solo segments); instead of amicably pushing each other to greater creative heights, the same goal was accomplished antagonistically, as if they were attempting to show up one another (for the curious, Castrillo won). The spectacle was out of place...
...Friday, Gateway announced that it was cancelling plans to build a new version of the Amiga computer. Who cares? After all, what's one more failed product launch, one more high-tech strategy initiated and then abandoned? But for faithful fans of the Amiga, a perennial also-ran home computer that's been around since 1985, it was the end of a dream...
...What is an Amiga? Fourteen years ago, Commodore (remember Commodore?) introduced the Amiga 1000, a sporty little desktop computer that featured one of the earliest commercially available GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces) and a flexible, efficient 32-bit operating system with an array of features, including multi-tasking and serious multimedia muscle, that have turned out to be extremely prescient. The Amiga built up an active user base and a respectable software library, and it seemed ready to take its place with the Macintosh and the IBM PC as a major home computing platform. MORE...
...news at the moment is NewTek's Video Toaster, a $1,595 plug-in board that attaches to Commodore's video-friendly Amiga computer. It gives operators a "frame grabber" to freeze images for computer manipulation, an animation program to create flying 3-D titles and a long menu of digital effects like the Star Trekkian "transporter" that can dematerialize people from the screen...