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- <title>
- Apr. 06, 1992: View Points:Music
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Apr. 06, 1992 The Real Power of Vitamins
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- VIEW POINTS, Page 69
- MUSIC
- Out of Africa
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- <p> There's something about the Kronos Quartet that has long made
- musical purists uneasy. If it's not the musicians' a la mode
- fashion statements, it's their extravagantly eclectic
- repertoire: from George Crumb's nightmarish Black Angels to the
- artless tangos of Astor Piazzolla and Jimi Hendrix's
- protopsychedelic Purple Haze, their trademark encore. The
- group's latest Elektra Nonesuch CD, Pieces of Africa, finds the
- Kronos wandering even farther afield. A potent new brew of folk
- influences, Minimalism and European forms by eight black, brown
- and white African composers, the music ranges from the
- irrepressible Mai Nozipo (Mother Nozipo) of Zimbabwean Dumisani
- Maraire to the brooding White Man Sleeps of South African-born
- Kevin Volans, and resounds with the sound of the tar (a drum),
- the kora (a 21-stringed instrument) and the human voice.
- Highlight: Ghanaian drummer Obo Addy's Wawshishijay (Our
- Beginning). No bloodless Euro-niceties here, just a glorious,
- joyful noise.
- </p>
- <p>By Michael Walsh.
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- </body></article>
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