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THE MICHIGAN DAILY

Saturday, October 30, 1971

Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, October 30, 1971


Recreating the Edo festival

-Daily-Rolfe Tessem
THE LEAD SINGER of Parliament Funkedelic belts out a num-
ber amid flashing light effects before an enthusiastic audience
at Hill Auditorium last night. A review will appear in Sunday's
Daily.
Pink Flo'yd:Sown
that ecstatic unity

By ROANNE BARRIS
Listening to Taneo Wakayama
and his company play last night
was an incredible experience.
When the musicians began, the
different parts sounded unre-
lated and confusing to the lis-
tener, but gradually patterns
began to emerge, such as high-
pitched notes on the flute sig-
nalling the ends of movements,
and related patterns between
the drum parts.
Like American jazz,kafter the
musicians have drunk a little
sakeiand shed their shirts, the
music begins to swing much like
a New Orleans rag. The music
built in intensity and complex-
ity, and it was hardto believe
that, unlike jazz, none of it
was improvised.
The music is called matsuri
hayashi-matshuri meaning fes-
tival, and hayashi an ensemble
of drums and flute. On certain
holidays in Japan, a portable
shrine is carried by fifty or sixty
men through town or city
streets. Encouraging the men
and enlivening these occasions
are a group of five musicians
Dance troupe
from Africa
here tonight
. The Sierra Leone National
Dance Company will perform
traditional African d a n c e and
music tonight at 8 p.m. in the
Power Center, under the auspices
of the University Musical So-
ciety.
Comprised of 34 dancers from
all sections of Sierra Leone, the
troupe was established nine
years ago by that nation's Min-
istry of Social Welfare as part
of an effort to develop the coun-
try's cultural potentials. It has
been acclaimed throughout the
world for its excellence of per-
formance.
The various dances of the
troupe portray the environment
in which they were inspired and
created.
The decorative style of their
costumes shows traces of the old
splendors of the tribal king-
doms which were flourishing
among their ancestors, to whom
most of the dances and social
improvements are attributed, be-
fore the white man first reached
Sierra Leone.
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playing this most surprising
type of Japanese music.
Of the four instruments that
make up the hayashi, only one
is a m e lo d i c instrument, the
take-bue or bamboo flute. There
are two taiko (shime-daiko)
drums, a larger o-daiko, and a
hand gong, the atarigane. The
drum parts consist of a certain
pattern that is played several
times (often picking up speed
with each repitition) before the
piece ends. One of the taiko
players usually sets up a steady
beat while the other adds synco-
pation, farming an interlocking
rhythm. The atarigane frequent-
ly plays twice as fast as the
drums, serving both as an em-
bellishment and as a rhythmic
drive to the piece.
After the matsuri bayashi
there were three numbers of
sato-kagura, a folk r e l i g i o u s
dance music. Pantomime is used
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dancers wear masks, wigs of
long hair, and brightly-colored,
o r n a t e costumes. Underneath
the costumes they are dancing
very restrained movements and
even the leaping of a dragon
and hero in combat is based on
delicate r e f i n ed actions. The'
first dance, Orochi Taiji, began
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of/ all that ,.
By FARGO
Pink Floyd invaded Hill Audi-
torium T h u r s d a y night with
extra-terrestial music. Their in-
fluence on other groups is im-
possible to discern b e c a u s e
nobody can approach their grasp
of psychedelic m u s i c. Pink
Floyd's first albums appeared in
the States sometime in 1967, on
the heels of the other vital but
undiscovered British group, the
Yardbirds. But whereas the
Yardbirds' innovations in elec-
tric - instrument sound clearly
showed up as influences on later
groups, no group has been able
to follow up on the wizardry of
Floyd.
The standard rock-group set,.
up: lead guitar, bass, organ, and
drums. Plus a few magic and
moogic boxes which this group
can wield to get sound effects
you cannot believe could be
heard off record. Sure, they in
effect- bring a whole studio into
the auditorium with them, but
even though some sounds are on
tape, watching the guitarist slide
up the neck and knowing the
final tones started there, five
filters previously, is still damned
exciting because these guys have
mastered what they are doing.
People unfamiliar with the
group may have heard the FM
favorite "See Emily Play," or
remember the soundtrack from
"Zabriskie Point." They played
the latter; i.e. "Careful With
That Axe, Eugene," earlier stuff
from "Saucerful of Secrets" al-
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believe four !people with I-don't-
care-how-many boxes could pull
off.
Dealing with cosmic and mag-
ical themes as does Pink Floyd,
it is difficult at times not to
slide toward the punkishness of
Black Sabbath, or the soppiness
of T-Rex. Floyd rarely slips from
a genius level, having made an
art of molding and virtually
curving sound, based on nega-
tive space, a frequent use of re-
verb, and projecting speakers.
Their music is closest to hymn,
an elegiac quality flows through
the perfectly paced crescendos
and interludes; even screams fit
into the continuum.
The first half of their set had
music flowing out of the roots
of the earth. It was light years
from jazz in struc ture, but
reached with tendrils that would
have made Dean Moriarity of
On The Road jump up and
down screaming Y E S! Y E S!
More of the same music the sec-
ond half; while you were won-
dering how four dudes in levis
could pull themselves into a
group and radiate the same con-
cept out to an audience as com-
ing from a single entity, at the
same time they were convincing
you that all music was the same
in the ecstatic sense of same-
ness. But the pre-encore cut
from their new album was a bit
tedious and by the end the peo-
ple who were too foolish to go
out in the hall while Guardian
Angel wasted time and ears with
blaring rock probably could not
pay the attention Pink Floyd
requires.

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