4 Page 8- The Michigan Daily -Wednesday, April 12, 1989 Good Question Good Question Paisley Park Remember Under the Cherry Moon? Whatever Prince intended to do with that movie did not happen. Same principle here. He's to be pointed at when ridiculing this horrific piece of vinyl, as well. More of the confused, somnolent stuff you might hear from fellow misfits Taja Sevelle and Dale Bozzio boggles your mind as you attempt to listen to this, destroying any great expectations you might have. These guys look like Mazarati, but that's where the similarity ends. The commercialism here is so over- whelming, you would almost expect subliminal messages underneath it all, telling you to buy the record. At challenge? Where's the flavor? It be- least Mazarati wore cool makeup. comes the aural equivalent of baby When there's no good singing, no food. Open your mouth, and they'll distinctive groove, no interesting pour it in. You don't even have to concept, not even a beacon of origi- chew it, and swallowing is just to nality to help you through the cohe- help facilitate the process. Actual sive, ambiguous plastic oatmeal that contemplation of the music becomes constitutes this record, you begin to something of a thoughtcrime. realize why pop music is DOWN- Prince was always one to throw RIGHT SCARY. commercialism and conventionalism If I were to take at random two to the wind, and do what his left foot songs from this record and program tells him to do: funk. For the horror them into a pop radio station's of pop to strike so viciously in his playlist, for the uninitiated, there camp is a sorry thing to happen to would be no way to distinguish music. I imagine that he's laughing them from the others, at himself, right now. It only hurts When the producer (Big Brother) when you laugh. makes the music easier for you to assimilate, it becomes tiresome and boring to listen to. Where's the -Forrest Green BY LIAM FLAHERTY GUITAR may be the phallic focus of rock, but in jazz, the fret is plucked by both sexes. The well- known innovators on the instrument have traditionally been men, but both perception and fact are changing. Emily Remler is at the front of a number of young, female guitar players, all of whom are threading a dif- ferent voice through the instrument. Remler taught herself folk and rock before studying jazz at the prestigious Berklee School of Music. In the early '80s she began working on a fiery, Latin-tinged style, often backing the Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto. Noted guitarist Herb Ellis heard her play and turned Concord Records on to this still relatively un- known player. They were excited by her precarious balance of technique and fire, and soon she was playing at their festival. Following her overpowering perfor- mance, she was signed to the label, with obscurity now forever past. Her latest recording has made some inroads into that precious atmospheric region known as radio airplay. Yes, there is a trace of fusion, but it is not fatal. Most examples of this godforsaken hybrid emasculate the best qualities of jazz and pop to produce an easy to swallow musical laxative. But Remler has made no transactions on her soul, retaining her unvarnished voice in a more viable context, in which she'll be per- forming tonight. Guitarist Emily Remler escapes jazz enema of fusion 4* EMILY REMLER, the third artist in Eclipse's WOMEN IN JAZZ series, will perform tonight at 8 p.m. at the William Monroe Trotter House at 1443 Washtenaw Ave. Admission is free. Presh.ge, toy Fm PLUS A chance to score complimentary stuff, get in places for free, and even receive marginal compen$ation p 00, Flame 'continued from Page 7 ance of a sea monster while Walker is on location on a beach, strange conversations with people he does not know, and his ability to foresee events and stop them before they end in tragedy send Walker looking for help and explanations. What he finds is a pattern of reincarnation for him- self that always ends with a jealous man causing Walker to suffer a violent death. This man is a magical storybook figure who thinks of himself as Walker's father. The novel then becomes a battle with time as Walker tries to rediscover the magic that the man once taught him in order to stop his "father" from fatally wounding either himself or Maris. At the height of the novel, Carroll takes the easy way out. He's built up the tension, given his readers a captivating plot, developed Walker's magical powers to a believable and interesting degree, and then he takes it all away. Walker's final confrontation with his father is a let- down, to say the least. In three pages, Carroll reduces the evil father back to a storybook image. He has Walker kill his father by continuing the fairy tale into the present day and giving it a happy ending. The father is "so sad that like his heart, he turned to glass and broke. When he died, his magic died with him.... Walker was only human again." At this point, one feels the entire book was a hoax. What could have been a fantasy that left readers speculating on the possibili- ties of magic and past lives turns into a bad joke. On the cover of Sleeping in Flame is a blurb by a critic describing Jonathan Carroll as a "cult waiting to be born." With the drawn-out beginning of the book and the discrediting done at its end, Carroll may have to wait quite a while for cult status. These blemishes are really a shame considering the ingenuity of the novel's middle. -Jill Pisoni 4 -..Wednesday, April 12 and Thursday, April 13 Basement Arts is holding audi- tions for The Connection from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in 2518 Frieze Building. A racially diverse cast of 4-5 women and 9-10 men is needed, as well as 3-4 musicians (jazz). No prepared monologue is necessary. Auditions and Opportunities runs Wednesdays in the Michigan Daily's Arts section. If you have items for the column, contact theater editor Cherie Curry at 763-0379. 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