TH E ORONATION OF OPPEA music Continued from page 4 majestically out of the mix, mesmerizing as it swoops, trills, and roars a dramatic, filigreed melody. The title track is even stranger, a nine minute plus suite that takes African music into new territory while the lyrics preach the transcen- dent magic of group harmony in a purely African sense. The tune is a schizophrenic concerto of tumul- tuous African musicianship and ex- perimentation. Overall, Soro is a strange but very potent concoction. There's bracing tension between the florid horns and synths and Keita's grit; a tension enhanced by a formal French arranging sense versus subversively African elasticity in the phrasing. At times Keita, will remind you of Jackie Wilson, at others James Brown. Most of all, however, he sounds like Fela-Kuti with a hefty dose of. high-powered benzedrine kicking through his bloodstream. Keita's Soro is definitely the best French/African album yet to rise from the bizarre, cross-galactic groove of the Paris fusion scene. -Todd Shanker When it's SPRING FORMAL time, there's only one place to go: BRIDES SHOWCASE Lita Ford Lita RCA Records One of the most feared epithets in the music business is "sellout," and rightly so. Too often acts cave in to mounting financial and managerial pressures and begin to compromise+ their music. It's sometimes hard to fault bands for this since the market is viciously competitive and being a cult favorite just doesn't pay the rent. It is a sad sight to see, however, and, just as sadly, it applies to this album. Apparently, Lita Ford has been in the metal background long enough to get sick of it and has released an album with major leanings to commercial radio. Her first band, the Runaways (yes, the same band Joan Jett came from) was basically a marketing ploy, so this isn't a completely new track for her. Not that the music is bad, or poorly performed. It's just too generic and obviously sets its sights on the Top 40. The video to the first single, "Kiss Me Deadly," appeared on MTV's Headbanger's Ball. It's as bad as calling Bon Jovi a heavy metal band. Lame, lame, lame. The album does have two bright spots. One is a song co-written by Ford with Lemmy Kilmeister of Motrhead, "Can't Catch Me,"and the other is a duet with metal's favoriteruncle, Ozzy Osbourne, called "Close My Eyes Forever." But these songs are mere shadows of what they could have been. The song by Lemmy merely causes a craving for Motorhead (say, "Ace Of Spades," perhaps), while =the Ozzy song would have been better if he sang the whole thing himself. 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