From: owner-harbinger-digest@smoe.org (harbinger-digest) To: harbinger-digest@smoe.org Subject: harbinger-digest V4 #134 Reply-To: harbinger@smoe.org Sender: owner-harbinger-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-harbinger-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk harbinger-digest Saturday, October 9 1999 Volume 04 : Number 134 HARBINGER DIGEST To post, mail harbinger@smoe.org To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe harbinger-digest To get list info file, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info harbinger-digest Today's Subjects: ---------------- (harbinger) Paula Addresses Amen Critisism [steven.stewart@nokia.com] Re: (harbinger) The Tour [Ruediger Hanke ] (harbinger) pseudo-off topic: PG/WOMAD [Jimmy Mac ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 11:29:53 +0300 From: steven.stewart@nokia.com Subject: (harbinger) Paula Addresses Amen Critisism Where have all the accolades gone? By JANE STEVENSON -- Toronto Sun When it comes to the career of Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Paula Cole -- to quote Gilda Radner's Roseanne Roseannadanna -- "it's always something." First, there was Wal-Mart's outrage over her naked form on the cover of Cole's 1997 breakthrough album, This Fire, which the retail chain refused to stock. Then there was the brouhaha over her armpit hair, which was seen worldwide during Cole's fiery Grammy performance last year of her nominated hit, Where Have All The Cowboys Gone? Now, with Cole's latest release, the week-old Amen, the R&B-heavy album's getting some downright nasty reviews and some people think the New York-based artist -- pictured on the record cover with a halo over her head -- has, literally, become too preachy. (Entertainment Weekly called it "a lumpy mix of urban inflections and pious introspections.") Cole, in town yesterday prior to her show tonight at the Phoenix, is trying to take the latest attacks in stride. But it's not easy. 'People-pleaser' "I wish I were more oblivious," said Cole, 31, seated alongside longtime drummer Jay Bellerose and guitarist Kevin Barry in a downtown Toronto hotel conference room. "You're not supposed to care what people think, but I do. I do care what people think and that's why I do what I do. I'm people-pleaser No. 1. And I always have been and I probably always will be." Cole said she even expected music critics to misinterpret Amen, which follows the more accessible, multi-platinum This Fire. That previous album led to a staggering seven Grammy nods for Cole, including best producer (a first for a female artist), a Grammy win for best new artist, and the single I Don't Want To Wait becoming the theme song for the teen TV series Dawson's Creek. "It doesn't really matter," said Cole eventually of the Amen barbs. "I knew that the critics wouldn't be supportive of this album. I knew it. I even wrote about it in the lyrics ahead of time." (The new song Rhythm Of Life begins: "To the critics and the cynics who don't understand the lyrics." ) As for the departure aspect of Amen, whose first single is a funky, orchestral stew called I Believe In Love, Cole said she and her bandmates go way back with R&B music. (They met a decade ago at the Berklee College Of Music and are now officially the Paula Cole Band.) 'Together for years' "We've all been playing roots music together for years," she said. "And definitely the hardcore fans would know this. Especially if you've seen us live, you'd have more of an understanding. There'd be more continuity. It surprises me that it's a surprise. Maybe it's the superstar guests that were on the album -- I don't know." Cole is talking about the presence of Gang Starr's DJ Premier, who scratches on the new album's title track and Rhythm Of Life -- which features Cole rapping -- and backup vocals from TLC's T-boz on Be Somebody. "People that I really respect have been blown away by this album," continued Cole, who will begin a full-out North American tour in April. "And artists that I really respect understand what I do. Time will be our friend." steven stewart helsinki www.mp3.com/fakefinn - ------------------------------ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe harbinger Btw, if you are an AOL subscriber the above instruction will work for your EVERY time. Digest, further unsub and problems FAQ at: http://www.netaxs.com/~jgreshes/lists/harbinger.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 20:46:32 +0100 From: Ruediger Hanke Subject: Re: (harbinger) The Tour > The same advance CD papersleeve announces that the official tour isn't scheduled to begin until February. Perhaps here in Europe we'll be luckier. From what I heard, Paula will most likely tour in Germany in late November/December. That would fit in with the info on the advance CD; by February she'd then be back in the USA and could tour there. Ruediger - ------------------------------ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe harbinger Btw, if you are an AOL subscriber the above instruction will work for your EVERY time. Digest, further unsub and problems FAQ at: http://www.netaxs.com/~jgreshes/lists/harbinger.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 19:09:28 -0400 From: Jimmy Mac Subject: (harbinger) pseudo-off topic: PG/WOMAD .......was Paula invited??? ================================ Gabriel, label celebrate world music October 8, 1999 Web posted at: 5:44 p.m. EDT (2144 GMT) A CNN WorldBeat Report (CNN) -- When Peter Gabriel first led Genesis onto the music charts in the early 1970s, his band was one of the first to sign with the then-fledgling Charisma label. Twenty years later, he started his own record label as a way to promote lesser-known artists from around the world. Today, with a sizable body of his own music behind him and international recognition of his status as a human rights advocate, Gabriel still helms the the label he founded. Real World Records boasts a roster of such diverse groups as Afro-Celt Sound System, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Tibet's Yungchen Lhamo. The label's 10th anniversary recently was celebrated with a party at New World Studios. Many of the company's top recording artists attended. To hear Gabriel tell it, the road to a label was paved with frustration. "In 1980, a group of us who were really excited about world music wanted to find more of it," he says. "And there were maybe two or three record shops in London (where) you could find it, and it was very hard to see it anywhere. "So I called a few friends together to try to put together a festival, which might promote and really introduce people to a lot of stuff, and that was called WOMAD, the World of Music, Arts and Dance." WOMAD, which has since grown and spread to five continents, proved a springboard for the label. "We started Real World Records on a very tight budget," Gabriel says. "Things took a while to get going, but today it's very healthy." - ------------------------------ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe harbinger Btw, if you are an AOL subscriber the above instruction will work for your EVERY time. Digest, further unsub and problems FAQ at: http://www.netaxs.com/~jgreshes/lists/harbinger.html ------------------------------ End of harbinger-digest V4 #134 *******************************