Word: amor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frenetic pulse of this album comes from the variety of traditional music styles that Byrne combines with modern lyrics and instrumentation. Of the 15 pieces on the album, only two merengues repeat themselves rhythmically. The rest range from the intense pace of "Loco de Amor's" salsa/reggae to the seductive tension of the bolero, highlighted in "Women...
Warren, as the lovestruck Countess, lyrically opens the second act with her sorrowful "Porgi, amor, qualche ristoro al mio duolo, a mieis sospiri" aria ("Grant, love, that relief to my sorrow, to my sighing"). Aided by a dramatic blood-red backdrop, she expresses her grief over her unrequieted love for the Count. Although wooden at first, Warren's Countess warmed up as the action heated up. She does, however, keep a cool distance from the audience as well as from the Count, who is well-played by Kravitz...
...years for a string of bombings, he escaped from the U.S. to Mexico in 1983, was captured in a gun battle and drew an eight-year jail term for killing a Mexican policeman. The U.S. had been dickering to get him back. But Foreign Minister Bernardo Sepulveda Amor proclaimed that Morales is a "political fighter for Puerto Rican independence" and so not subject to extradition. Morales was turned loose and fled to Cuba...
...different, as kicky and eccentric as Jonathan Demme's inverted thriller (starring Jeff Daniels and Melanie Griffith), which it accompanies. Hearing these ten tunes is like checking into a padded cell inside a Wurlitzer. Listen to David Byrne's lyric for his salsa-inflected opening song, Loco de Amor ("Like a pizza in the rain/ . . . No one wants to take you home/ But I love you just the same"), there is no doubt that this album is a passport to alien territory. The music -- which includes Jerry Harrison's sinister Man with a Gun, the roof-raising African rouser High...
...AMOR EN LOS TIEMPOS DE COLERA, by Columbian Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, sold by Schoenhof's Foreign Books...