From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V5 #68 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 23 2006 Volume 05 : Number 068 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:17:58 -0600 From: Theodore Turner Subject: Re: seven-seas My Siberia review Thanks for saying so Chris, but I'm glad you wrote it, as only you could have. TT On 3/15/06 12:16 AM, "chris adams" wrote: > 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. (Ted Turner) > > www.bunnymen.com > > > > ===================================================================== > Bunnymen Online Presence: > http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info > http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ > http://bunnymen.nexuswebs.net/ * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ > * > > ====================================================================== > > > > > --------------------------------- > Brings words and photos together (easily) with > PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! 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Anybody see Bunnies at SXSW? TT On 3/15/06 8:12 AM, "Shaz" wrote: > 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. (Ted Turner) >> >> www.bunnymen.com >> >> >> >> ===================================================================== >> Bunnymen Online Presence: >> http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info >> http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ >> http://bunnymen.nexuswebs.net/ * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ >> * >> >> ====================================================================== >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------- >> Brings words and photos together (easily) with >> PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail. >> >> >> >> ===================================================================== >> Bunnymen Online Presence: >> http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info >> http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ >> http://bunnymen.nexuswebs.net/ * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ >> * >> >> ====================================================================== > > > > ===================================================================== > Bunnymen Online Presence: > http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info > http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ > http://bunnymen.nexuswebs.net/ * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ > * > > ====================================================================== ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ http://bunnymen.nexuswebs.net/ * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * ====================================================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V5 #68 *******************************