From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V5 #66 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Thursday, March 16 2006 Volume 05 : Number 066 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:12:47 +0100 (CET) From: Shaz Subject: Re: seven-seas My Siberia review Ted - That sums it up!! I have tears in my eyes!! Excellent review! Shaz > Message Received: Mar 15 2006, 06:38 AM > From: "chris adams" > To: seven-seas@smoe.org > Cc: > Subject: Re: seven-seas My Siberia review > > Ted, I wish you'd written Turquoise Days, yr a fukkin genius. That was gorgeous, thanks. > > C. Adams > > Theodore Turner wrote: > hi everyone > > I've finally reviewed Siberia for my magazine column, here's the just > finished, unedited, grammatically imperfect version. > > some of this may look a little familiar re: Mac's voice..as I pulled > some of it from a post I had sent to the list in the Fall....hope you like > it & thx for taking the time to read it...if you do. > > Ted > > > Stylus Magazine > Winnipeg Canada > > Rock is Dead Long Live Rock > By Ted Turner > > Echo & The Bunnymen: Siberia > (True North/Universal) > > It9s been almost 20 years to the day since my first Echo & The Bunnymen show > on a perfect Vancouver night in April of 86. That night I stood awestruck > before what was unquestionably to me, the greatest Rock band in the world. > > The Bunnymen made records in the 809s that effortlessly transcended the > existing aesthetic and emotive frontiers of Rock. This new magical, generous > light was partially sourced from the rough shine of The Velvets and the glow > of Bowie9s sublime otherness, But its heart & soul (its VISION) was all new > and all theirs, it was Bunnymusic > and nobody has even come close to making > Rock music as timeless, beautiful and cool since, except them themselves, as > is the case with the renewed swagger and shine of Siberia, the first 21st > century Bunnymen masterpiece. > > > Siberia sees founding Bunnymen Ian (Mac) McCulloch & Will Sergeant in a > glorious return to the magical form that made their earlier work so large > and otherly. Siberia Grooves hard (and soft) with Sergeant9s cavernous > tumult while McCulloch navigates through some of his most personal (and > beautiful) writing and singing to date. The elemental interplay between Mac > & Will is back in full bloom, with Sergeant9s lush, soaring, often eerily > lingering and always emotively rich leads as further lyrical support for > (and tonal tension against) the swaggering iconic romance of McCulloch9s > sublime vocal and poetic forces. > > Sergeant is one of the most accomplished and influential Rock guitarists to > ever play, his brilliant work on Siberia stands as renewed evidence of the > immense scope and depth of his craft. > > The metaphysical wailing McCulloch of the 809s has evolved into the > confessional (less vocally soaring) crooning Mac we now hear. But what has > been lost in sheer scope is well replaced with an emotive, fragile, rough > timbre that opens new and exciting doors for him as a singer (its worth > noting that he ends the record with his voice standing naked and alone, an > act of stylistic confidence we9ve haven9t heard since 849s Ocean Rain). > Siberia also finds McCulloch9s craft in a burst of natural evolution that > brings his gift continually closer in form and content to that of (his much > admired) Leonard Cohen. > > McCulloch9s purely physical achievements as a singer in the 809s placed him > in a pretty singular category within the history of pop music (only Bowie9s > gift is of the same true kind). To push his voice as hard as he did for so > may years was an immense feat, if he wants to drop it down a key or two and > fly a little closer to earth at this point, he's more than earned the extra > leg room. He still nails the old superhuman notes live though ,and with > Sergeant scaling new endless heights (again) The Bunnymen are still the > greatest live band in the world. > > These songs are bold and inspired, and will again, live forever. Where some > elements of their post reunion catalog have felt somewhat paint-by-Bunnymen > numbers at times, Siberia pours out of them as the raw enchanted light of > Echo & The Bunnymen now hovering again at the height of their mighty powers. > Lay Down Thy False Gods and Groove. 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