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...monophonic singing known as Gregorian chant is still alive and well, thank you. In the year's biggest musical surprise, a recording of Gregorian melodies sung by Benedictine monks from the abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos in Spain has suddenly become a monster hit. Issued, appropriately enough, by Angel, Chant has sold more than 220,000 copies in its first two weeks of release. The album is already No. 1 on the classical charts as well as 47 in the pop rankings, and a video is on the way. Even more improbably, Chant is getting airtime on alternative-rock...
...majority of Chant purchasers are ages 16 to 25, seemingly hooked on Gregorian's timeless, otherworldly quality. Angel has shrewdly given the album a New Age-ish appeal, with a Magritte-like cover painting of brown-robed clerics suspended in space and an ad campaign with the theme "Prepare for the Millennium." The basic appeal of the album, says Father Jerome Weber, a Catholic priest and an expert on chant, is "simplicity, purity and mysticism. There is an intuition of the beyond, both in the recording and in the way people are hearing...
...something that sets it apart from most of the failed prime-time soap operas of recent years: modest goals. The show does not set out to capture a historical era (Homefront) or reproduce the glitzy New York high life (Tattinger's) or create a parable about going home again (Angel Falls). The characters on Melrose Place have a bland, modern universality. Indeed, watching the show again for the first time since its debut, one is struck by how the personnel have blended together. There was once a black neighbor (Vanessa Williams); she has moved away. Michael and Jane were initially...
...multi-layered Autoclave textures, the interplay produced by having 3 (or 4?) songwriters with different tastes, are just as missing from Slant 6 as they are from Helium and Rastro! But the riffs on Soda Pop Rip Off(especially in the second-to-last number, the sparkling "Blue Angel") could pass of Autoclave riffs, and have the same tightly-coiled double-reversal feel that Autoclave songs like "Dr. Seuss" and "Summer" used to have. I think Autoclave may be remembered as the Yardbirds, or the Sneakers, of the 90s indie-pop underground: a short-lived band whose ex-members...
Schindler is a friend to both Stern and Goeth, and the movie develops into a kind of triangle where Stern is the angel of good and Goeth the angel of evil battling for Schindler's soul. As the film progresses, Schindler finally opens his eyes to the atrocities committed by the Nazis. When the orders come that the labor camp must be dismantled and all Jews sent to Auschwitz, Schindler manages to buy the lives of 1,100 Jews...