Word: morcheeba
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These days some of the best jazz singing is turning up in the pop-record racks. Nineteen-year-old Esthero, singer of a Toronto trip-hop duo that bears her name, is the newest member of the school of so-called blue-groove vocalists (it includes Skye Edwards of Morcheeba and Tracey Thorn of Everything but the Girl), who use the delivery and seductive lilt of jazz to bring warmth to chilly avant-garde pop. Esthero's debut with her co-writer and producer, Doc (Martin McKinney), weaves hip-hop, drum and bass, funk and ska into tunes full...
...clubs have popped up in Orlando in the past three years); the sound tracks to the movies The Saint, Batman & Robin and 187 draw on it; major rock acts like U2 and Smashing Pumpkins are incorporating it into their sound. And there is some great electronic music out there. Morcheeba's Who Can You Trust? (Discovery) is a rapturous blend of bluesy vocals and electro atmospherics; Carl Craig's More Songs about Food and Revolutionary Art (Planet E) is puckishly inventive; and The Rebirth of Cool FOUR (4th & Broadway) is an excellent compilation of electro acts. Later this year...
...with synthesized sounds, isn't new--R. and B. dance remixers have drawn on it for years. However, the form is bustling with activity these days. Electro visionaries such as Tricky, Goldie and Carl Craig are pushing its boundaries; youthful trip-hop bands such as the Sneaker Pimps and Morcheeba and the promising avant-dance group the Prodigy are giving what has largely been instrumental music a voice, fresh faces and heart; and rock vets like Eric Clapton (with his new band T.D.F.) and David Bowie are tapping into it for inspiration. Now, this week, U2 releases its electro-tinged...