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From: sob@neuro1.UUCP (Stan Barber)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Jane Siberry
Message-ID: <529@neuro1.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 04:18:41 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  5 04:18:41 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 6-Aug-85 20:12:25 EDT
Reply-To: sob@neuro1.UUCP (Stan Barber)
Organization: Neurophysiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx
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Summary: GREAT ALBUM

This may be old news, but we only recently got the Jane Siberry album 
"No Borders Here" on A&M at KTRU. 

I have not been impressed with a new act like this in a long time.
Of course, I am sort of wierd in that I like music that sounds like
music and does not cover up the lyrics. And I expect lyrics
to mean something and not be boring. In short, I agree with
Pete Townsend's opinion of the song "Magic Bus". He said it was 
"boring, just boring and repetative" [see the "Scoop" LP inner
liner for more of this opinion]. This is not to say that I don't like
instrumentals, I do. But if music is to have lyrics, you should be
able to hear and understand them without having to have a digital
filter to remove the music.

Anyway, with all that introductory stuff out of the way, I will get on
with it.

Jane's songs tend to be slice-of-life oriented. A day at Dancing Class,
being a waitress, and so on. Also, a bit of philosophy in 
"Symmetry (The Way Things Have to Be)" and romance ("Follow Me" and
"I Muse Aloud"). 

Jane comes from Canada and has this record produced at Windham Hill.
If you like what comes out of Windham Hill, this is of the same
quailty, but a little different bent.

I strongly suggest if you like music in the same vein as
Bruce Cockburn, Joanie Mitchell, and the like, that you check this out.

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