Dance company brings
millennium piece to Lied
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Pregones Theater, to be performed
Jan. 21-22.
For this year’s season, the Lied
Canter chose Marshall because of her
reputation in die modem dance world.
“Susan Marshall is one of the
great forces in modem dance in this
country,” Bethea said.
Since 1985, Marshall, her collabo
rators and company members have
won eight New York Dance
Performance Awards.
Marshall’s company began in
1983, when she presented her first full
evening of works. In 1985, the compa
ny began touring and gaining recogni
tion.
Marshall said “The Descent
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The Facts
What: “The Descent Beckons"
Where: Lied Center for Performing Arts,
301 N. 12th St.
When: Tonight at 8
Cost: $36, $32, $28, half-price for students
The Skinny: Susan Marshall and Company
explore chaos and order, death and rebirth.
Beckons” differed from past pieces
the company has performed.
“There’s a lot of back and forth
with the audience. We can really feel
their energy,” Marshall said. “You
don’t usually feel that in modern
dance.”
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Fflter
“Title Of Record”
Reprise Records
Grade: B
About halfway through “Title Of
Record,” it becomes abundantly clear
that Richard Patrick, the brainchild
behind Filter, has been listening to
more and more Jane’s Addiction and
less and less Nine Inch Nails.
Four years ago, Patrick was living
the good life with a hit single, “Hey
Man, Nice Shot,” and a winning
album, “Short Bus.”
Then writer’s block set in.
And stayed in.
For a long while.
Patrick, a former member of Nine
Inch Nails’ touring group, went back
to basics, reforming Filter with all
new members and took a long time
reworking the band’s sound.
Unfortunately, that’s also the
problem. In all that reworking, he pol
ished away some of the magic that
made “Hey Man, Nice Shot” such a
catchy song.
In the middle of last summer,
Filter covered “One” for the “X
Files” movie soundtrack, and it was
pretty good. It didn’t toy with the
original so much that you couldn’t
recognize it, but it definitely added its
own flavor.
But, sadly, the song made promis
es that Filter’s second album, “Title
Of Record,” just wasn’t up to keeping.
About half of the album is the
same chugging industrial-tinged rock
that has become mainstream over the
past few years, and here the album is
about as generic as its title.
It’s not that the songs are bad -
they just don’t stick with the listener
beyond the moment the power’s
turned off. Some of that crafty pop
power seems to have fallen by the
wayside during the long absence.
Also, many of the tracks blend
together with guitars that sound virtu
ally identical. Is this the Lego method
of building “hit songs?” Regardless,
they all sort of become one giant glop
of indiscernible ruckus.
When Filter decides to toy with its
sound, however, it results in some of
the best stuff on the disc.
About halfway into “Title Of
Record,” the band loosens up, chills
out and decides to show its musical
talents beyond just chugging at an
electric guitar.
“Take A Picture,” “Skinny” and
“I’m Not The Only One” all have
hints of Perry Farrell and Jane’s
Addiction, although “Skinny” loses
some of its potency partway through.
It’s as though Patrick is convinced
Filter fans won’t like a Filter song
unless he’s screaming somewhere in
it, when, in fact, his songs don’t merit
his screeching cry.
The sudden shifts back and forth
don’t help the album flow as a whole.
Usually, an album rises and falls in
slow shifts, like tides. “Title Of
Record” is like a rollercoaster with
your eyes closed - you never know
you’re dropping until you’re already
half-way down the slope.
As the album closes with “Miss
Blue,” an acoustic number, the feel
ing that there’s hope for this band yet
is undeniable, but hope does not a
great record make,
-Cliff Hicks
Michael Fredo
“Introducing”
Quest
Grade: F
Have you been feeling down since
the last parking rally ended? Fret no
more, my friends! There’s something
new to protest, and his name is
Michael Fredo.
At 19 years of age, Fredo has
already decided to dedicate his life to
the advancement of pop music.
After attending The Professional
Children’s School in New York, he
spent a year touring and singing with
the Ellington Orchestra.
When Fredo’s manager intro
duced him to Quincy Jones, the mas
termind behind Michael Jackson’s
solo career, a star was bom.
Since recording his debut album,
“Introducing,” Fredo has been very
active with the Tommy Hilfiger cor
poration. In the Hilfiger television
commercials, he dances for a couple
dozen screaming girls while belting
out his latest bubble-gum hit, “This
Time Around.”
This summer, Fredo joined lip
synching phenomenon Britney
Spears for a North American tour.
As for his album, such unfeeling
lyrics and sub-par music haven’t been
released since the Backstreet Boys
came out with “Millennium” earlier
this year. The cliches of pop music
flow freely on “Introducing,” a scant
43-minute album littered with 10
tunes of sexual desire and one song
concerning the death of Fredo’s
father.
The music is flat and uninterest
ing, recycling the same electronic
drum programming over and over
until it ultimately fades out.
Despite this monotony, Fredo
seems to think he has created yet
another trendy catch phrase.
“I call it ‘youthquake’ - a new
form of pop music, which mixes a lot
of different styles,” Fredo said in a
recent press release.
But the only elements that Fredo
combines in “Introducing” are juve
nile and uninspired lyrics (“As long
as I live/I give you my word/I’ll be
your everything/if you’ll be my
girl”), cheaply engineered music and
sex appeal.
Following the toxic path of
N’Sync, Jennifer Lopez, 98 Degrees
and countless other disposable bub
ble-gum pop acts, Fredo falls into one
of the most shameful genres in the
history of music.
Introduce yourself to returning
rock bands, such as Filter, Live and
Nine Inch Nails (who have produced
thoughtful, rewarding albums this
year), and leave Michael Fredo to the
99-cents bin he belongs in.
-Andrew Shaw
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