From: owner-bklist-digest@smoe.org (bklist-digest) To: bklist-digest@smoe.org Subject: bklist-digest V1 #5 Reply-To: bklist@smoe.org Sender: owner-bklist-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-bklist-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "bklist-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. bklist-digest Friday, January 17 1997 Volume 01 : Number 005 Today's Subjects: ----------------- REVIEW: Destination Anywhere Re: REVIEW: Destination Anywhere [none] PROMOTIONAL IDEA: Make a BK Live Video ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 15:03:12 -0800 From: Gordon Wong Subject: REVIEW: Destination Anywhere Here is a negative review from the Boston Phoenix regarding the Destination Anywhere album: ==================== Brenda Kahn DESTINATION ANYWHERE (Shanachie) The cover art for Brenda Kahn's Destination Anywhere is airy and angelic; her music is anything but. Her strident vocals, harsh guitar, and sometimes discordant delivery make every song edgy, often menacing. "Night" begins calmly and builds to a screaming frenzy. In "Terrorist," Kahn plays the thinness of her voice against a macabre, threatening melody, but despite her theatrics, she never lets her music control her. Her edges are carefully honed, especially her free-flowing lyrics. Beautiful, intriguing images ("a blurry twilight pool of clear green time") are juxtaposed with sucker-punch phrases about humanity ("some call it suicide, some call it survival"). On "Spoon," about a young boy strung out on heroin, drums and guitar pound out a double-time tempo while Kahn offers a tribute somewhere between a Throwing Muses song and Jim Carroll's anthem "People Who Died." "Faith Salons" is the one exception to the generally unnerving tone as, barely whispering, Kahn forces you to work to hear her. It's one of the album's most engaging songs. (--- Jen Pieters, Boston Phoenix, 08/22/96) ==================== So what do you think? Agree or disagree? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:55:05 -0500 From: DelphiBlue@aol.com Subject: Re: REVIEW: Destination Anywhere I would hardly call that a negative review. The declaration that "the cover art for Brenda Kahn's Destination Anywhere is airy and angelic; her music is anything but" is stating simply that the music is disturbing. But not in a stomach-turning "this is horrible music" way. It's clear by reading the rest of the article, that the reviewer liked the album... alot. If I read that review, and never heard Brenda before, I'd definitely think about buying it. It's an honest review: Destination Anywhere is a harsher outing than previous releases... "threatening... beautiful... engaging...". The reviewer also makes note of her incredible lyrics... "Her edges are carefully honed, especially her free-flowing lyrics. Beautiful, intriguing images ('a blurry twilight pool of clear green time') are juxtaposed with sucker-punch phrases about humanity ('some call it suicide, some call it survival')." Definitely a good review... Dennis in the delphi ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:00:41 -0500 (CDT) From: Bad Penny (Kory P Klein) Subject: [none] Hey, does anyone know where I could get a copy of the first record? Is it out of print, maybe? Frank Richie at Schanachie knew that someplace had been selling copies, but they don't anymore, and last I talked to him, he hadn't found anyone yet. Kory ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 18:56:01 -0800 From: Gordon Wong Subject: PROMOTIONAL IDEA: Make a BK Live Video From reading the reviews of people who have attended BK concerts, BK puts on a heck of an entertaining concert. Since some people are unable to go to one of these concerts and experience it firsthand, maybe Shanachie Records can make a live video of a BK concert. ===== List Stats ========= Subscribers: 19 (mailing list started on 01/12/97) ... compare it to the Jewel mailing list ... they have 279 subscribers (it started on 01/01/96) ------------------------------ End of bklist-digest V1 #5 **************************