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...roughly translatable as something unprintable. Jeff Wise will reside in Manila, supporting either Marcos or communist insurgency by knocking over tourist bingo games. Andrea Monfried will sojourn to Greece and promises to spray paint "Bono is God" on the Parthenon. And Mimi Sheller will slip down to Mexico to buy drugs. As usual, I'm staying here to do all the dirty work for a hopeless bunch of miscreants. Oh well. Until September...
Spanish Fly is filled with subtle and not-so-subtle allusions to Full Force's own recordings. On "A Fool Is Born Everyday" they toss in their well-known "Don't even try it/Full Force don't buy it" line over some spare beats. The album's fine opening track, with a beat reminiscent of last year's "I Wonder If I Take You Home," is even titled "Everything Will B-Fine," after Full Force member B-Fine...
...make sense of, and any categorization is approximate and limiting. To try to comprehensibly describe in words the works of a composer, much less a group of composers, is an impossibility, for most classical music uses neither words nor images. In the end, the proof is in the pudding. Buy recordings of music you like and go to concerts where it is being played...
Classical recordings are difficult to choose because there are so many of them, sometimes even of the same pieces, and it makes a great difference which recording you buy. You can buy everything from 70-year-old recordings, painstakingly transferred from old 78 r.p.m. records, to monophonic recordings of the 1950s, to stereophonic, to the latest digital recordings...
WHICH ARTIST'S PERFORMANCE TO buy is a matter of taste, which cannot be explained but can most definitely be cultivated. If there's a piece you really like, try to listen to another performance of it. You may be shocked by the difference. Classical music lovers swear by certain artists' performances of certain pieces or certain composers...