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Fifteen years ago, violinist Nigel Kennedy blew hot air up the skirts of the somewhat dowdy old lady that is classical music with his recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. He played sections fast, slow, ornamented. He played his own cadenzas. He had a punk??s hairstyle. He shot a music video in which the entire orchestra wore sunglasses during the “Summer” movement...
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While Strummer seems to have mellowed since punk??s heyday, Streetcore remains, at heart, not all that different from anything The Clash released. He continues to struggle with themes of social responsibility and equality. And the combination of folk, reggae and punk that permeates the album can be traced all the way back to “Police and Thieves...
...real prize in the series is the set created by Michel Gondry. Gondry demonstrates an acute perception of the visual manifestations of music, and in an astounding triumvirate of videos, gives each aspect of the song its own aesthetic texture. The first, Daft Punk??s “Around the World,” displays each instrument and vocal part in the song enacted by a costumed dancer; the Chemical Brothers’ “Star Guitar” replaces the people with aspects of a landscape viewed from a train window; and Gondry?...
...materials to organize a structure that supports the music but remains the essential product of his imagination. The days of dismissing music videos as fluff will soon go the way of your Kajagoogoo cassettes. So stop complaining that MTV never plays music videos anymore, turn off “Punk??d”, and invest in these three DVDs. If not for their indisputable artistry, then for the simple satisfaction of robbing Ashton Kutcher of a little of his livelihood...