Newsgroup: it.arti.musica.rock
Titolo: Mundo Civilizado

Arto Lindsay
bello, bello
qualche rece :
Yet another sexy album (does Uncle Fester think of anything else? -- NO!), 
this this one goes for a more tropical, breezy, acoustic sensuality. Yet 
there is also an underlying tension threatening to either break the music 
apart or boil over. Perhaps it's becuase of Lindsay's background in the late 
70s/early 80s, chaotically noisy New York "no-wave" group DNA. His 
notoriously unhinged passion is now under tight control as he revisits the 
more traditional acoustic music of his birthplace, Brazil, and updates the 
innovations made by Tropicalia pioneers like Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil 
and Jorge Ben. Measure the uniqueness of his vision with his two brilliant 
covers -- one of Al Green's gently smoking "Simply Beautiful," the other a 
version of Prince's "Erotic City." The Brazillian sensibility puts them 
through a subtle filter, but enriches them just the same. On top of that, 
Lindsay makes strikingly original use of drum 'n' bass rhythms on other 
tracks. If that appeals to you the most, see also this year's Hyper 
Civilizado, a forward looking remix album that features Illbient players DJ 
SPooky, Sub Dub and We. If you prefer the traditional Brazillian sounds, 
check out his first solo album, O Corpo Sutil (The Subtle Body) and pray he 
comes up with a brilliant third album soon!
Fastnbulbous
There isn't anybody out there in the vast world of music who's
anything like Arto Lindsay. I'm not aware of a more independent
character or personality. He started his career in the late 70's as
the leader of DNA, an insanely discordant, obnoxious No-Wave
band based in NYC. He's somewhat a living legend, and most
certainly a tried and true downtown New York fixture. Where he
stands out from the crowd is his unique musical styling.
Somewhere in the 80's he got into some serious pop business,
starting a band called the Ambitious Lovers, and they put out a
couple very 80's-centric albums. Along the way he's started
musical and friendly parterships with everyone from Brian Eno,
Ryuichi Sakamoto, John Zorn, Caetano Veloso, to Bill Laswell,
among many others. It seems he's led two distinct musical
careers simultaneously. One, of the fiercely experimental avant-
garde type, and the other of classic Brazilian pop/jazz/MPB, which
brings us to this album. Ever since '96 with the arrival of  O
Corpo Sutil, he stated his deep love of Brazilian musics, along
with groovy soul, and angular pop. This, his second "Brazilian"
album beautifully displays his mastery of almost-traditional
songwriting with some interesting arrangements. Thanks in part
to Arto Lindsay and artists like Stereolab I've fallen in serious
love with Brazilian music. Discovering music from and/or heavily
influenced by Brazil is a very important musical achievement for
me personally. Arto Lindsay's music tends to affect you that way.
ignatius
Jungle-samba anyone? How about Downtown meets Al Green? Skronk/Prince, maybe 
suits you better? Beats-n-Bossa? Simply put, it's all these and more. Arto 
can combine evocative words with electronic trickery with gifted sidepeople 
with even more gifted songwriting better than anyone else working the 
territory in question. Which is what? Everything I said, but in a meta- 
sense, it's the one-worlder fusion of music from anywhere perceived as pop 
from Earth and not individual nations/areas. It's been done good (Bill 
Laswell, Laurie Anderson) and bad (Afro-Celt Sound System, Bill Laswell) and 
everything in between (Peter Gabriel). So I'm glad that Arto sticks to what 
he knows (Brazilian music, NYC art-rock) instead of throwing a dart at a 
globe and calling up a musician from wherever it sticks. It makes the music 
stronger and more focused, even while intimating worlds beyond what the 11 
tracks here signify. Doesn't hurt that he managed to gather perhaps his 
strongest batch of songs yet for this record, or that Vinicius Cantuaria 
proved to be a gifted partner in crime. Regardless, this is one for the ages 
that smacks of a personal stamp on the one-world idea rather than allowing 
the one-world idea to dominate and signify on its own. It's beautiful, 
funky, funny, and in "Clown," they've come up with perhaps the most poignant 
song I've ever heard written by or for people who don't mind wandering off 
in the crowd alone. I love this record to death; it's one of my all-time top 
five or ten.
nervenet 

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Gran bel disco... ho anche la versione di remix, HyperCivilisado...
In genere non amo molto la musica brasiliana, ma Mr Lindsay ne fa una
versione straniata veramente speciale.
L'ho visto due volte in concerto a Villa Ada ("Roma incontra il
mondo", una rassegna di world ma non solo, sono venuti Jah Wobble,
Devendra Banhart, e un sacco di altri pazzi)--la prima volta c'era
pure Vinicius Cantuaria--e era magnifico quando nel bel mezzo di una
dolce samba Arto partiva con la sua chitarra distortissima per un
assalto di puro noise...
Flux
http://www.radiorock.to
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 In genere non amo molto la musica brasiliana, 
Male, la migliore musica al mondo.
-- 
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rock