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DAVID SYLVIAN/ROBERT FRIPP
Glasgow lloyal Concert llall, 2 Dec. Dextroust-played fret-melting sheet- metal guitar lines darting around the limits of acceptable tonality? Me, I love ’em. The weirder and angrier the better (unless your name’s Steve Vai, in which case, get a grip, you bombastic longhair). David Sylvian seems to like them too, which is why he and Robert Fripp are sharing a stage for this short series of dates. Fripp, with typical contrariness, prefers to kid on he’s a mere hired hand and coaxes an entire lexicon of textures from his black Les Paul while shrouded in shadows. llis garb,
1 glimpsed through the gloom, suggests
: this may have been a wise move.
Both parties were pioneering ambience when the current flock of
' chill-out merchants played in punk bands, but you’d be hard put to tell,
because they really - can you hear me? HELLO! - whip up quite a racket up there. With Fripp, Michael Brook
, and often Sylvian playing effects-
j laden guitars, Trey Dunn stroking his
' versatile Stick (by the way, it’s been
. said many times that guitars are penis
’ substitutes, but have you ever seen anyone playing a Chapman Stick? If Segovia had learnt his stuff in a
1 Bangkok bordello instead of the
conservatory, his technique might ; have looked a little like Cunn’s well- greased, faintly embarrassing manipulations) and a drummer hammering away, the field of sound is crowded and stormy.
Even though there are moments when they cross the line between insistent and overbearing, when they click, the quintet can call into existence some ; towering sonic sculptures, and the f single, ‘Jean The Birdman’, is,
* naturally, sublime. Significantly, the most memorable and affecting moments come in meditative songs like ‘Earthbound’, where Sylvian is
E given the space to croon in that unique way which seemed so affected .f when he fronted Japan, but now rings 1 out soulful and genuine. (Alastair
1 Mabbott)
, Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, 2 Dec.
: As the distinct smell of grass
1 pervades the nostrils, so Keith Elan
5 aka 6qu invades the stage in the name of a jazz and hip hop experiment. 1 What transpires is an evening of hand- i clappin’, toe-tappin’, energy sappin’,
; very uncrappin’ talent.
g Accessible but eclectic,
1 Jazzamattazz keep on going art in
i gifted tangents. The structure of the
1 performance 1s loose but the musical
: foundations iron strong. As well as
; Guru, there’s Donald ‘What’s the
: word?’ Byrd on trumpet, Courtney
; ’What’s my line’ Pine on sax,
; singer/crooner Big ‘Aye, big’ Sugar,
1 Deejay Seanski and chanteuse Akema
; Johnson to replace the unavailable
} Carleen Anderson, D C lee, and II’Dea
: Davenport. What a supersub she is; far | removed from soul restrictions of the
i aforementioned, Ms Johnson hollers
a llDIlSE - that’s peaks and troughs
. rather than linear.
1 Private hardcore ebony enhancement
I comes when Guru goes back to the old skool - just him, Seanski and Big Sug. ; ‘We ain’t talkin’ no gangsta shit,’ booms Keith; in ’94 Guru’s on a self- , styled mission to seek and destroy all 5 those who falsely live by the gun.
In the jazz corner, the excited, ageing face of Donald Byrd creases f constantly with excitement, and he 5 seems anxious to whip up the home crowd - what a pity for poor old Don that nobody told him that Scots take as kindly to a horn version of ‘Bule 5 Brittania’ as Gerry Adams is as likely Q to banshee ‘The Sash‘. It’s up to 1 Courtney to instil some shortie tin 1 music with his interpretation of ‘Auld lang Syne‘ before tearing the show ; apart with a wicked fifteen-minute ; version of the ‘Inspector Gadget’ tune : within which Seanski brilliantly drops 3 Cangmaster Flash’s ‘White lines‘. ‘I E want to paaaarty,’ wails Don. I did, Keith did, hell everybody did. Klassy, very Klassy. (Philip Durward)
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Concerts listed are those at major venues, for which tickets are on public sale at time of going of press.
ROCK
I GLASGOW BARROWLAND (226 4679) Paul Rodgers. 22 Ian; M People. 22 Feb; Man'llion. 26 Feb; Wonder Stuff. 24 Mar.
I GLASGOW CONCERT HALL (227 5511) Kenny G. 28 Jan.
I EDINBURGH INGLISTON (0715871414)UB 40.14 Jan.
I EDINBURGH PLAYHOUSE (557 2590)
Deacon Blue. 22 Apr.
JAZZ
I GLASGOW CITY HALL (227 5511) Carol Kidd. 16 Feb; Danish Radio Big Band. 10 Mar.
I GLASGOW CONCERT HALL (227 5511) Kenny G. 28 Jan; 1n the Mood. 18 Mar.
I EDINBURGH QUEEN’S HALL (668 2019) Michel Petrucciani. 11 Feb; Carol Kidd. 18 Feb; Tommy Smith. 4 Mar; Danish Radio Big Band. 11 Mar; Cauld Blast Orchestra. 18 Mar.
FOLK
I GLASGOW CONCERT HALL (227 551 1) Celtic Connections. 14—23 Jan. I EDINBURGH OUEEN’S HALL (668 2(119)Cau1d Blast Orchestra. 18 Mar.
LIGHT
I GLASGOW CONCERT HALL (227 551 1) John Denver. 15 Mar; Shirley Bassey. 19 Sept.
CLASSICAL
I GLASGOW CITY HALL (227 5511) Mozart Requiem. 20 Mar.
I GLASGOW CONCERT HALL (227 5511) Favourite Music. 13 Feb; Julian Lloyd Webber. 10 Mar; Choral Spectacular. 5 Jun.
I GLASGOW RSAMD (332 5057) Paragon. 23 Jan; SEMC. 4 Feb; BTSE. 11 Feb; Cappella Nova. 12 Feb; Paragon. 27 Feb; Hebrides. 6 Mar; SEMC. 11 Mar; Paragon. 20 Mar; BTSE. 15 Apr.
I EDINBURGH QUEEN’S HALL (668 2019) Emperor Qt. 17 Jan; Paragon. 25 Jan; Hebrides. 2 Feb; BTSE. 6 Feb; Hebrides. 6 Feb; Schubert Ens. 7 Feb; King‘s Consort. 19 Feb; Paragon. 1 Mar; Hebrides. 7 Mar; Endellion Qt. 21 Mar; Paragon. 22 Mar; ECAT. 30 Mar; BTSE. 17 Apr; ECAT. 28 Apr; King‘s Consort. 7 May; Meadows CO. 15 May.
I EDINBURGH USHER HALL(228 1155) ERCU. 7 May.
4B The List 17 December 1993—13 January 1994