Word: vocalists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wilson's latest CD, Wilson covers a broad musical spectrum with jazz versions of songs by U2, Neil Young, The Monkees. "The album marks a new high point for the 40-year-old Wilson, who over the past two decades has become America's most important and daring jazz vocalist," says TIME's Christopher John Farley. "Her voice has the heavy, rolling darkness of a storm cloud, but Wilson isn't given to flashy lightning vocals. She finds emotion in restraint -- her voice murmurs low like distant thunder, or strikes a brief, bright note, like sunlight after rain. New Moon...
...blissfully oddball music, by contrast, is free of any overt social agenda. The duo's impressive debut album Viva! La Woman is a seductive mix of hip-hop beats, jazzy instrumentation and goofy yet provocatively surreal lyrics. "The velocity of time turns her voice into sugar water," sings lead vocalist Miho Hatori on the genially bizarre Sugar Water. Food--apples, artichokes, white-pepper ice cream, beef jerky--is the album's constant, almost perverse preoccupation. "When Miho and I used to hang around before we started this band, we became close friends because we love...
Twinlights also continues vocalist Liz Fraser's recent trend toward a less embellished singing style. Considering her assertion that abuse in childhood led her to sing in nonsense syllables, one can only be glad to see her emergence into the realm of the intelligible. Yet Fraser's voice has now lost its most striking asset, an "I'm either verging on a nervous breakdown or about to explode with joy" quality. Her singing on this EP is on a par with the pretty but insipid vocals of the Sundays' Harriet Wheeler -- without the cynical edge of humor that makes Wheeler...
David R. Capiola '97, the vocalist of competing band Steamship of Beef, said he "had a great time. We played pretty well considering we were down one guitarist...
David R. Capiola '97, the vocalist of competing band Steamship of Beef, said his band "jumps at every opportunity to play" and was looking forward to performing for such a large audience. He also said he was enthusiastic about the prospect of doing a gig off-campus...