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RUBEN BLADES: NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH (Elektra). The Panamanian sensation's first all-English album is a stone dazzler. A bold, totally successful mix of Latin pop, jazz, rock, doo-wop and unflung street passion...
...CALL: INTO THE WOODS (Elektra). Spiritual adventuring by a California band that dances well clear of high seriousness into a unique groove...
...HOUSEMARTINS: THE PEOPLE WHO GRINNED THEMSELVES TO DEATH (Elektra). A fast-moving band of Brits that uses a pared-down format to meet some serious social issues head...
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...detractors write of his "blank interpretations," and indeed Ozawa has always been more effective in Strauss and Stravinsky showpieces than in Beethoven symphonies. Music that demands depth rather than flash taxes him. He has taken up opera in Europe, but his strengths and weaknesses remain the same: his Elektra in Paris was the work of a master colorist but lacked the manic intensity that others generate...