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...Crimson filled Elliott's position at guard with a rotation of Warner and Garcia and inserted Jacobson at center after an injury to junior backup center Will Ratcliffe...
...copier and a fax machine. "People never took delight in having 20 different cables going around the desk," says Envisioneering's Richard Doherty. "Now you have all-in-one peripherals and one or two cables to plug in, and you're finished." Tempting. But you'd better have a backup plan if, say, the scanner conks out, since the whole machine takes a trip to the repair shop...
Badu's 12-minute rendition of the hit "Next Lifetime" comes close to perfection, finding new heartache, wisdom and charm in the hit. Sounding like Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, the song climaxes first in a soulful whirl that is followed by Badu's backup singers scatting into heaven. "I'll be the moon shine on you/I'll be the womb give you fruit/I'll be heaven love me right/I'll be divine give you light," Badu sings at the end. Here, as on the entire album, she proves that although she is not the second coming of Billie Holiday, Erykah...
...born singer's previous CD, Prophecy, he performed alongside rapper Method Man of the American hardcore hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan. I-Testament also boasts street-wise, street-tough swagger. Capleton's vocals are a mix of slurred rap, chanting and Jamaican patois, supported by R.-and-B. backup singers. His songs are often built around samples; Original Man draws liberally from the bass groove of Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side. Capleton's talent lies in his ability to fuse gangsta-rap energy with socially conscious lyrics: the album's premier track, It Hurts My Heart...
...Lamest Flame" and "Western Union Song"--which may or may not appear on Got No Shadow. Although Lord played both songs solo, either could easily be adapted as band material, especially "His Lamest Flame," an upbeat and gregarious sour grapes song which wouldn't easily be adulterated by backup accompaniment. The audience responded enthusiastically to the new material, crowding up to the stage for the first time during the sequence of bands that evening; they also got a kick out of Lord's announcement that she would be playing a limited engagement in the subway the following evening...