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The Michigan Daily "Thursday, June 11, 1981 Page 7

New Musik

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MUSIC
Urban Verbs-This group displays
more pretense than talent in the
lyric department, but they are all
fine musicians. What's more, they
are related to the Talking Heads in
the person of singer Roddy Franz,
brother of Heads' drummer Chris,
Actually, the similarities extend
well beyond the familial relation-
ship. Friday, June 12; Bookies (in
Detroit); $6.00.
Mission of Burma-A highly regar-
ded new wave combo from Boston,
this group's single, "Academy Fight
Song," has been called one of the
best singles of 1980 by several new
wave magazines and polls. Monday,
June 15; Second Chance; $3.00 in ad-
vance.
Mountain-Leslie West and Corky
Laine return with the group that they
led into hits like "Mississippi
Queen" and "Nantucket Sleigh
Ride" in the late 60s. "Heavy" is a
good description of both their music
and West himself. Tuesday, June 16;
Second Chance; $6.50 in advance.
Koke Taylor and the Blues
Machine-The grand dame of the
blues makes another one of her all
too infrequent stops in Ann Arbor.
Her gravely singing style (a la
Muddy Waters) has won her
widespread recognition as the best
female blues singer around. Wed-
nesday, June 17; Rick's; $3.00.
THEATRE
'The Member of the Wedding'-This
play by Carson McCullers is con-
sidered an American classic. The
Department of Theatre and
Drama's summer repertory com-

pany will present it as their second
play in a series of three plays in
three weeks. Wednesday through
Saturday, June 10-13; Power Cen-
ter; 8:00 p.m.; $3.50-5.00.
'Three Dollar Revue'-This late-
night vaudeville show is also presen-
ted by the Theatre Department. It
will be directed by Joan Morris, a
long-time aficionado of the genre.
Wednesday through Saturday, June
10-13; Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre;
11:00 p.m.; $3.00.
FILM
'A Slave of Love'-Easily one of the
most stunning films to come out of
the U.S.S.R. in several decades. It
brings a glorious sense of color and
an unusually realistic touch (con-
sidering the strictures of Socialist
Realism) to the story of bourgeois'
film actors-who are not so much
anti-revolutionary as a-
revolutionary - as they try to com-
plete a silent melodrama while
being pursued across Russia by the
Bolsheviks. The final scene is not to
be missed. Saturday, June 13;
Auditorium A, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.;
-$2.00.
'Hi Mom!' and 'Greetings'-Two
early films by two men who were
later to go on to bigger (if perhaps
not better) things - Robert DeNiro
and Brian DePalma. DeNiro of
course wenton to starring roles in
"Raging Bull," "Deer Hunter,"
"Taxi Driver," and so on. Brian
DePalma went on to direct "Carrie"
and "Dressed to Kill," but this is in
his earlier style of outrageously ab-
surd comedy. Wednesday, June 17;
Auditorium A; "Hi" at 7:00 and
10:20, "Greetings" at 8:40; $3.00 for
the two.

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New Musik - 'Sanctuary' (Epic) -
There's plenty to dislike about New
Musik's Sanctuary - the beat is
laughably simple, the lyrics pleasantly
unsubstantial, the production antisep-
tic. But if you can imagine that New
Musik uses all of these qualities to their
advantage, then read on.
In many ways, New Musik epitomizes
the Europop genre. This is the kind of
pleasant, airy, melodic popbased not so
much on technical complexity as on
sheer cleverness that 10c.c. used to
churn out in a simpler time.
The major way New Musk differs
from 10c.c. is in the former's almost
exclusive reliance on keyboards to sup-
port the vocal hooks (which arealways
of central importance to this kind of
music, anyway). But even here, New
Musik echo 10c.c. in their stellar
production quality. Sounding
something like a Giorgio Moroder (the
producer of Eurodisco's finest momen-
ts, like Donna Summer's "I Feel
Love") on a calm summer day, New
Musik's sound is based on vibrating and
shimmering keyboards that are
produced so cleanly that they ring like
bells.
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THOUGH New Musik's strengths lie
in their simplicity, they shouldn't just
be written off as air-headed pretty-boy
pop. Jarringly odd keyboard sounds are
a regular part of their otherwise
pristinely straightforward arrangemen-
ts. For the most part, they rely on craf-
tily arranged and manipulated vocals,
ranging all the way from simple echoes
on half the cuts to random editing from
one interrupting vocal to another on
"This World of Water:" (again
rempiniscent of former 10c.c'ers
Godle and Creme).
But simple, straightforward melodies
in upbeat, major keys are the stuff of
New Musik. If you can't consider using
terms like "simple" and "pleasant"
without stooping to condescension, then
you probably won't enjoy Sanctuary.
But'you might give ita try anyway. It's
just this kind of unassuming stuff that
might sneak up behind you and snare
your cysical heart.
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