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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.
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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
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(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
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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
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to my own sleep deprivation at the time. Later I
wasn’t surprised to find myself grooving down to
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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
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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
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