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...those admirers who still wanted to hear the artist recite his own work, Williams joked that his second book does come with a compact disc...
...just me, or has installing software become harder? It used to be that setting up a new program simply meant sticking a disc in my computer and clicking yes when asked if I agreed to an unfair and unintelligible licensing agreement. My computer would then crunch away for a while, restart, and--voila!--the application was ready...
...their way onto his playlist), but listening to the album is nowhere near as fun as hearing him live, even if it's a good recording. Perhaps what the night proved was that DJs--more than any other kind of musician, perhaps--are not suitable to export by compact disc. Lucky thing they can afford airplanes...
Back when he was 18, the self-taught pianist released Brown Sugar, a truly inspired disc that reawakened the ghost of Marvin Gaye in the name of good old-fashioned baby-let-me-put-you-on-a-pedestal-and-worship-you sensuality. Since then, a few heads, led by Maxwell, have emerged and stolen a good part of the spotlight from the angelic one's cornrowed head. Never fear though. D'Angelo has reclaimed center stage. Voodoo is thick with the same sensuality as Brown Sugar and doubly infused with bottomed-out, layered funk that recalls a smoke-filled Brooklyn...
...provides an appropriate backdrop for her deep, probing lyrics. The soundtrack also contains two gems from Supertramp, a flashback to the early '90s with Gabrielle's "Dreams," and the movie's instrumental theme by Jon Brion. But, in the end, it is Mann's work that carries this disc to greatness. Anderson's movie has quite a task in living up to the expectations created by this masterful soundtrack. A -- ANDREW P. NIKONCHUK