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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (June 6, 1997)
ju s t o u t ▼ Ju n e 6 . 1 9 9 7 ▼ 3 9 TONGUE IN GROOVE MUSIC M ILLENNIUM CELEBRATES LESBIAN & GAY PRIBE J ocelyn E nriquez found the rest of the songs on this disc to be less interesting and a poor excuse for using sampled Jocelyn • Classified/Tommy Boy music. EAST PORTLAND Maybe I got fooled into thinking that someone 32nd & E. Burnside hen I received this CD in the mail, I just had akin to Beck (Hansen, that is) would come along. to scre-e-eam! After all, how often would Oh well. 231-8926 I get to review a CD by a diva-to-be of Filipino descent, hunh? Hunh?Tell me! NW PORTLAND Well, Jocelyn Enriquez is just that—an up- M oodswings and-coming dance diva who will definitely rock Psychedelicatessen • BMG 23rd & NW your world. “Do You Miss Me,” a popular track Johnson ike some systemic biochemical freakout 248-0163 (akahormonal imbalance), the Moodswings pivot frantically between fast and slow. One track may find you breathless and amped, and then when the next one plays you’ re jerked to a screech ing halt. The unpredictability is refreshing and hitting the California airwaves and dance club makes it difficult to pigeonhole the band’s sound. floors is one of many bumping songs on this debut Is it techno? Industrial? Electronic? Ambient? release. But I must say that the thing that makes You tell me. THE WORLD'S LEADING me gush with flashbacks of my beloved homeland I ABBA TRIBUTE BAND is “Kailanman” (it means “forevermore”), a typi cal tragic/romantic ballad sung in Tagalog, the V arious A rtists national language of the Philippines (yeah, it’s The Big Wheels of Azuli • Twisted Records corny but very Filipino). ecovering from the ear-popping altitude changes on a flight to San Antonio, l spent my one-and-a-half-hour layover in the Las Vegas (ka ching! ka ching!) airport listening to the sounds of Azuli. Never mind that it was a little past l o’clock in the morning, or the fact that I had gotten hardly any sleep for the past several days— my cerebral cells were definitely awakened by the thumping beats deftly mixed by the illustrious DJs and remixers at Twisted. I paid special atten $13 ADVANCE/S15 DAY OF SHOW • ALL AGES • 9PM tion to the Stonebridge mix of “R U Sleeping” due to my own sleep deprivation at the time. Later I wasn’t surprised to find myself grooving down to 1332 W BURNSIDE • FOR MORE IN FO CALL 7 7 8 -5 6 2 5 • w w w .m cm enam lns.com the Pucci mix of “Groove Thing.” What can I say: TICKETS AT JOHN BARLEYCORNS, McMENAMIN'S BEAVERTON MALL, BARLEY MILL, McMENAMIN'S MALL 205 big beats, big sounds. Big Wheels of Azuli. & THE CRYSTAL BALLROOM BOX OFFICE TUES - SAT FROM NOON ON • SUN 3-9:30PM OR www.HckeIweb.com W L R FRI. JUNE 13 CRYSTAL BALLROOM V arious A rtists Jocelyn Enriquez What is a little disturbing is some of the publicity stuff that arrived with the CD stating that, because she has such a Latin-sounding name, Enriquez’s cultural “ambiguity” is an asset that will widen her “appeal” to the masses. Shut up already, stupid clueless people! Um, the Philip pines was colonized by Spain, just like many Latin American countries that fell victim to the Spanish conquistadors, OK? Hence Jocelyn’s last name. Why can’t it just be noted that this Filipino American songstress kicks club music ass—that is good enough (and then some). Rhythm Zone and Peaceful Planet • Mango been difficult not to notice lately how the I t’s current music trend is the melding of the “world music” sound into various types of music. Dance, pop, techno, electronic—all have borrowed some tunes from the traditional music of Africa and Asia (particularly India and the Middle East). C innamon The Courier • Island T he first track sounds eerily familiar (The Crabs!). The rest sounds like Bjork stripped down to the basic guitar, percussions, keyboards and vocals. Cinnamon’s sticky sweet and sedately voiced lead singer, Frida Diesen, blends well with the group’s overall sound, but tiptoes the line between too cutesy and annoyingly whiney. These two compilation CDs continue the trend, showcasing the richness in rhythm and grooviness W hite T own of music from the aforementioned places. Rhythm Zone pumps up the beat meter with fast and Women in Technology • Chrysalis/EMI frenetic tracks, while Peaceful Planet provides eah, yeah, I got caught up in the the mellow and appropriate-for-nap-time music. whole Star Wars re-release frenzy and Both CDs boast tracks from various artists such as found myself instantly liking White Town’s Angélique Kidjo, Baaba Maal and King Sunny “Your Woman” because of its use of the Star Adé, as well as Bahia Black, Uakti and Ismael Lô. Wars theme as backbeat sound. The song’s Reviews by Rachel Ebora. Questions or ambiguity (it’s sung by a guy, but the lyrics and requests for band coverage? title suggest a woman’s point of view) also E-mail eborachel@aol.com. contributed to my affinity for it. Surprisingly, I Ut «il (WliKAl UYL Oh WflCL Y SERIES A Della Air l ines juNi KtX H % I w a rn H nw nv 2wn K ( h h t iiìì (JIMU W MU 7Q0-M1 CAOUP DIKOUNTi 2QQ-40QC
