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...will also organize trips to concerts in Boston, and it hopes to bring a well-known funk artist to perform at Harvard. The group is compiling a CD lending library, and Rosenbaum says a funky clothing library may be on the horizon...
...show and the starting time, those three songs were the only ones I witnessed. I can only imagine how the rest of the show was; supposedly everything but "Let Forever Be" was performed off of the superb album Surrender. I can only go home and put on my CD and imagine the joyful beats and mesmerizing noise spewed forth from the mechanized consoles of the Brothers. I must be content with the knowledge that if the rest of the show looked and sounded like the first frantic minutes, then one amazing experience...
...first major album to feature primarily compositions in English. Anthony not only switches languages for his newest release; he also changes genres--the tracks here are Latin-tinged, but for the most part they obey the standard rules and regulations of Top 40 pop. The best songs on this CD burn with Anthony's customary golden fire: the first single, I Need to Know, has a welcome urgency. In addition, one of the Spanish-language cuts, the salsa-infused De la Vuelta, is vibrant and involving...
Overall, however, Marc Anthony is just a pleasant album by a singer who on past releases has proved himself capable of greatness. Still, after listening to this new pop CD, one looks forward to Anthony's recording more salsa albums, or at least an edgier brand of pop. A singer as good as Anthony deserves material that's up to the challenge of his talent...
Bassist, singer, sometime hip-hopper Me'Shell NdegeOcello created a wake-up call in her first album, Plantation Lullabies, brimming with funk and flavor and attitude. Her new CD, Bitter, is more of a good-night kiss, slow, atmospheric and a bit weepy. Bitter, which features narcoleptic production by Craig Street, has carefully structured songs and cautious vocals, but it lacks NdegeOcello's edginess and verve. The songs are about breakups and betrayal, but the emotion is buried. This album feels like that uncomfortable pause in an argument when there's nothing left to say or throw...