Word: shades
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three-hour tour of Kampala by bus and on foot, I saw not a single white face on the street, and only one Asian. Uganda's white population today is only a shade over 3,000, down more than half from that of last August. There are fewer than 1,000 Asians left, mostly skilled specialists who were exempted from the expulsion decree...
...leading. Critics jump at the chance to be witty, and this is a chance to glibly toss off an entire album and entertain your readers at the same time. Trouble is, Traffic's newest, Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory isn't. Uninspired, that is. It's just a shade better than Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, and, while it's not real innovative, compared to, say, Mr. Fantasy in 1967-68, it certainly cements Steve Winwood's reconstruction of the form fusion that made Traffic's first a quantum jump away from the Spencer Davis Group...
Bertolucci turns an equally sensitive eye to shade and tone. Stucco covered by luxuriant ivy, the red tile roofs of the village when the sun is high, are played off against a haunting night-time blue in which lamps stand out in the windows, or, in one stunning scene, a fire leaps up and down, leaving a lingering after-image on film pushed close to the limits of its sensitivity...
Another California artist who sees cars as art is Tom Sewell. Sewell's "Picklecar" looks like a cross between a giant cucumber and a stray automobile. Actually "The Picklecar" is a 1950 Studebaker that has been sprayed with polyurethane foam, and painted a loud and ugly shade of green. "The Picklecar" is bizarre to the point of being offensive, and indeed, the Los Angeles Police impounded the car after someone complained about it being parked in front of their house...
...seventeen, playing with Clapton at nineteen, it goes on. Winwood may be the most talented person making music today, his virtuosity on keyboards, bass and guitar makes me think Stills has a lotta gall trying to play those three instruments. Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory is a shade better than Low Spark. It's one of the few albums I can listen to, in its entirety, at one sitting. And what never fails to impress me is how Winwood gets away with those "40,000 Headmen" acid image lyrics this long after flower power...