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...Replacements--there's one song, "Featurist," on this disc that wouldn't sound out of place on the 'Placemats' LET IT BE LP. But the best analogy for aMINIATURE's sound is a defunct Richmond, VA band called Honor Role, who combined continually off-balance, polyrhythmic bass and drum work with very simple guitar attacks and half-spoken, half-sung, half-muttered grumblings about life, the universe and high school. (Yeah, I know that adds up to three-halves of a vocal line. When I'm in this kind of mood I tend to let these things go.) Almost...
Moreover. Eggs were already kinda sorta well-known for their oddball instrumentation--live, and on their previous records, Rob Christiansen some-times plays bass, and sometimes instead plays trombone. But that's nothing compared to the "Day in the Life" style piling up of styles and timbres on this album: a smoothly anachronistic analog synth (could it be a Mellotron?) pops up in several songs, and so effectively each time that by the end of the 66-minute Exploder opus you'll probably have moved from wondering how anyone could use a Mellotron sound on a rock record...
...black and white clip; she has since let her hair grow out a bit), and a Rolling Stone critics' poll chose NdegeOcello, 25, as "the brightest hope for 1994." The praise is well deserved. On her album she is almost a one-person band, playing drums, keyboards, guitar and bass in addition to singing. Plantation Lullabies also has some impressive guest performers, including Joshua Redman, a summa cum laude graduate of Harvard who is the young jazz saxophonist-of-the-moment...
...songs on Plantation Lullabies feature whiplash bass grooves and down- for-the-struggle lyrics. This is literate, smart music about black life, like a Terry McMillan book set to a beat. NdegeOcello's voice flows easily from singing to speaking, brashly loitering in the space in between. "Konks and fade creams, sad passion deferred dreams," she sing-speaks on Soul on Ice, a swipe at buppies who refuse to date black women. "You want blond- haired, blue-eyed soul;/ Snow-white passion without the hot comb." Other songs deal with everything from love on the subway to what she sees...
...Cleveland Chamber Symphony and soloists tenor Paul Sperry '56, soprano Julia Kierstine and bass Thomas Paul will perform Bernard Rands' Sun Songs, Moon Songs and Eclipse Songs at 8 p.m. in Paine Hall. Admission is free. Call 495-2791 for details...