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Recent releases from Tori Amos Derivative Duo and
Deee-Lite, who will all grace local stages this month
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by Aaron Bong
S teve P erry
For the Love o f Strange Medicine
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I know when I hear timeless music. Excellent
music creates and expands emotion; bad music
only rides on existing emotion. This is not great
music, only mediocre.
Steve Perry has a distinctive voice that evokes
memories of the band he was previously in, Jour­
ney.
The music itself is upbeat and not bad, but the
lyrics sound like Perry is “trying to really get into
his craft,” whatever that means. Definitely not on
my Top 50 albums list for this year.
T he D erivative D uo
Opera fo r the Masses
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My first thought before I even listened to this
CD, was that comedy is at least 95 percent physi­
cal. My belief was confirmed.
T ori A mos
Under the Pink
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Amos has returned with a fierce and moving
album that reaches out to many facets of humanity.
Her first album, titled Little Earthquakes, was rich­
sounding, but lacked the maturity that seems to
come across on
this album. The
songs and instru­
ments provide a
brilliant canvas for
her richly textured
voice.
Don’t buy this
album expecting
to hear a group of
songs that sound
like the radio hit
“God.” On one of
the songs, titled
“Bells for Her,”
Amos sings ac­
com panied by
what sounds like a celesta, but, according to the
credits, it is actually a “demolished” upright piano.
Seeing Tori Amos in concert should be incred­
ible, given the quality of her music. She will be in
Portland on Sept. 13, at the Civic Auditorium.
Tickets are $20.50 through Fastixx.
N ewsflash : Yes, my little disco bunnies and rabid
ravers, the rumors are true!! That fabulous,
funkadelic, lip-smacking, disc-spinning, hip-grind­
ing group Deee-Lite is coming to town, after the
recent release of their third album Dewdrops In the
Garden.
The new album is full of new sounds for the
group, including Lady Kier rapping, and a more
sensual sound to their music. All in all, not an
album to be missed.
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That aside, these women are excellent vocal­
ists. The team of Susan Nivert and Barb Glenn,
who are life partners, works. Their voices bounce
off of, and intertwine with, one another.
The album is a collection of re-worded classi­
cal songs. My favorite was the “Waltz of the
Toreadors” from Bizet’s Carmen, reworked into
“Ode to Grete.” It is a song about Margarethe
Cammermeyer, discharged from the National
Guard for being a lesbian, and a song about queers
in the military in general.
The Derivative Duo will perform at the North­
west Service Center on Sept. 24 at 8 pm. Tickets
are $ 10 in advance (through Fastixx outlets and It’s
My Pleasure), and $12 at the door.
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Deee-Lite
The music on this album feels like a soft beam
of sunlight—comfortable and reassuring. Also with
no risk involved.
It seems that risk-taking in Marsalis’ music is
no longer an option. Winning a larger audience and
a bigger slice of the corporate music pie seem to be
the aims of this album. How sad.
I do not enjoy hip hop music, and, if you don’t,
I suggest that you skip the intro. The second song,
“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” has every­
thing to do with the poem by Maya Angelou. She
reads the poem against a beautiful sounding back­
drop of chirping birds and alto saxophones.
The entire album has a “breakfast jazz” feel to
it, very quiet and soft with few surprises.
M P A N Y
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Monday, Sept. 19, Deee-Lite plays Queer Night
at La Luna. Tickets are $ 10 in advance (available
at Ticketmaster outlets), and $12 at the door.
However, I doubt that any tickets will be left for
sale at the door. One dollar from each ticket will
benefit the No on 13 campaign to fight the most
recent Oregon Citizens Alliance ballot effort.
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