Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!GAFFA.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: Laurie! Summary: Strange Angels, Empty Places Message-ID: <3542@ur-cc.UUCP> Date: 26 Oct 89 16:15:08 GMT References: <8910260421.AA07508@ariel.unm.edu> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Organization: University of Rochester, New York Lines: 30 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: boris@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Boris "bootstrap" Goldowsky) In article <8910260421.AA07508@ariel.unm.edu> Love-Hounds@GAFFA.MIT.EDU writes: >Really-From: Lazlo Nibble > >As you probably know by now, Marq, Strange Angels *is* the new Laurie. > >Reviews, please! Well, I'm not a reviewer, but I did see her performance, "Empty Places", and have heard the album "Strange Angels", which came out Tuesday. They only overlap a bit, and the arrangements are quite different (the performance was much more mysterious and stark and sometimes shrill than the record). The music is definitely different from the style of her previous albums; it's has more melody and song in it. You may have heard that Laurie has been taking voice lessons; according to an article in the NY Times, she wrote one of the songs and then when she went to rehearse it realized she didn't know how to sing that kind of stuff. I like it, but only since I stopped expecting it to be like the Laurie Anderson I knew. Maybe I'll try my hand at writing a real review sometime, after I've listened to the album a few more times. But I wanted to ask if anyone else out there saw the performance? I'd be interested in hearing what your impressions were. Did anyone happen to tape it? Bng