Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best. Stereolab is no stranger to personnel changes. What hasn't changed is the thrill of hearing where Stereolab is going next, whether it's a casting out for funkier shores or spending a night in with Burt Bacharach and martinis. The next stop on their magical mystery tour? Soul. Not James-Brown-soul, although the drawn-out, reverb ad infinitum song endings the band took to performing at the Roxy do recall the virtuoso rock-outs that end so many soul anthems. This was soul as in a little jump start, an extra pumping in the veins...
...think he's given a lot of his heart and soul to Cambridge," said Jonathan S. Myers, a former city councillor...
...organic" Fantasia): Flight of the Bumblebee; the Mozart piece that incorporates Twinkle Twinkle Little Star; Brahms' First Symphony; Dvorak's Ninth; even Beethoven's Ninth. Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini had a nifty concept (a nightmare and a dream struggling for a sleeping child's soul), but it fell through, as did the revival of a segment prepared in the '40s by Salvador Dali; a few clips from it are shown...
...execution (the wet sponge on top of the prisoner's head conducts electricity directly to the brain, allowing death to occur sooner and less painfully), resulting in a gruesome electrocution scene. John alone recognizes the evil that is everywhere, and the burden of this insight weighs heavily on his soul...
...Essentials promise "an evening of manicured sonics and tell-tale coiffure in the tradition of club-circuit Berlin circa 1980," with themes of repetition, exaggeration and anachronism in sublimated soul music. The band will be selling their Christmas 7" at the show and a live CD and LP, out on English Muffin/Swill Records, is forthcoming...