Word: discoed
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...Kodo's live performance, these songs illustrate Kodo's range from the meditative to the sublime. Kodo: Sai-So-The Remix Project (Red Ink/Sony) is a funked-out, intelligent dance album that maintains the ritualistic feel of Kodo's drumming while sampling them into styles as different as disco-house and ambient...
With its voracious appetite for the new, teen pop can be blissfully nonjudgmental. Unconcerned with matters like artistic credibility that can make rappers and alternative rockers so self-important (Remember how Alanis Morissette ran from her disco-diva past?), teen pop is a universe unto itself, with its own strange laws of gravity. A record that tanks with Generation Xers can rise like helium in the teen market...
...subject is too sacred for the men of the HPT, who yearly tackle thorny issues of the day. Erik Amblad '99 assumes the controversial and theologically challenging role of the Reverend Hal Elujah, who must sell the word of God in disco-rhyme from a pulpit of rhinestones--undergoing a casually hidden, usually Russian and sexually appealin' internal drama in the process. If the body is a temple, there is a doctor in the room, and Elvis left the building, then Jesus brought the house down...
...Houdinis of Whodunit") or endearing ("Blue Suede Blues"); and the cast appears to be genuinely enjoying itself on stage. Furthermore, (as these things go) the plot is compelling. (Present-day presidential candidate General Lee Aliar (Jason Mills) threatens to ban Rock 'n Roll in exchange for campaign funding from disco-freak Hal Elujah; in order to save Rock 'n Roll, Elvis impersonator Al Shookup (Seth Fenton) travels back in time from the year 2099 to Philadelphia in 1787, where he elicits the help of Founding Father sidekick Brook Worm (Adam "Waka" Green...
...first number of Act II, "Prayin' Alive," led by Hal Elujah (Eric Ambald), the evangelic disco-loving preacher, decked out in a stained-glass-window-printed suit and sequined cross and papal collar, is one of the show's most electric moments. It demonstrates the skill not only of Kaplan and Lau but also of the terrific and fiery Ambald, supported by the entire chorus...