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...GOULD EDITION, to be completed in 1994, presents Gould's entire recorded oeuvre (much of it previously unreleased). His Haydn is superb; his Mozart and Beethoven range from riveting to risible; his moderns dazzle. Above all, sensibility and omnipotent fingers made him a peerless contrapuntalist, who could with uncanny rhythmic acuity articulate multiple lines and transmute complex musical thought, especially Bach's, into pure and exciting expression...
...Coke signs flash against a rhythmic backdrop of bright colors, all in time to a lilting rock song: "Wherever there's a beat, there's always a drum; wherever there is fun, there is Coca-Cola...
...QUESTION: TO BE OR not . . . to bop. The problem, first stated by an English playwright of some note, was rephrased and repunctuated by John Birks Gillespie in 1979 and used as the title of a free-swinging memoir. To Be or Not . . . to Bop: hip, funny, silly, fractured, rhythmic -- each word is like a snap of the fingers -- pointed, pertinent, dizzy. Very Dizzy...
...ALARMING SIGHT greeted American health officials visiting the town of Hoddur in Somalia. Relief workers had distributed unmilled wheat to starving villagers, and scores of living skeletons were pounding the wheat by hand in order to make an edible mush. To the casual witness, the rhythmic thuds might have seemed the music of deliverance, but to those familiar with the grim calculus of starvation, they formed a dirge. The energy expended in grinding the wheat vastly exceeded the nutritional benefit of the mush. Relief supplies were killing the starving...
Producer Paul Fox has given the band a more solid rhythmic foundation for this outing. Previously, Merchant and the other Maniacs could be so evanescent that they threatened to disappear in their own vapor trail. Here they sound sturdier, even when a string quartet floats through Merchant's wrenching Jezebel...