Word: vocalist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Holmes touring with two guitar players, a bassist, a drummer, a keyboardist and a two-man horn section, the band is invariably compared to groups like Chemical Brothers and Massive Attack. Still, the easiest explanation for the persistence of the electronica label is the lack of a regular vocalist. After all, how many rock bands can you name that don't have a singer? In keeping with this idea of unconventionality, the band somehow managed to play a sterling, albeit too-short, set and escape the stage without uttering a single word. This disrespect for the traditional protocol...
...media (market self-sabotage--how will the masses relate?). Just as untimid in her work, she had Depeche Mode, Lamb, the Orb, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Steve Reich come under remixing at her hands before she began work on Kiss My Arp, her full-length debut. A session vocalist and classically trained cellist, Parker's Kiss (much anticipated after her glowing addition to the 1998 DJ Kicks series) brings her talents together in a brilliant torch of perfectly programed darkside downtempo. Cold vocals in "The Unknown" smart initially but burn grooves in the head, like all the stunning tracks...
...live. While a few songs sound as if they are just vehicles for Coomes' jilted worldview or a thundering Weiss drum solo, the majority manage to balance catchiness with noise. During the middle of the hour-long set, Janet Weiss took a brief but very impressive spell as lead vocalist on "Two By Two." Just in case anyone was feeling optimistic after Janet's airy vocals, Coomes returned with "California," singing "Life is dull/Life is gray/At its best it's just ok/But I'm happy to report/Life is also short." The kids in the front row bounced along, reveling...
...amazing, they picked us to tour with them, a miracle, I think. I think Yuka [Honda, keyboards, vocals and other original band member] met the vocalist somewhere, and he's a very nice guy, so I guess it started from there. So many bands want to open up for Live because they're a big band. It's just amazing that Cibo Matto, a "weird band," gets to do this, it's pretty fantastic. The audience might not have any idea about us, but I think that's good, people need time to figure out whether they like...
DIED. ELLA MAE MORSE, 75, ebullient, genre-defying vocalist whose Cow-Cow Boogie was Capitol Records' first million-selling hit; in Bullhead City, Ariz. Among Morse's other signatures were House of Blue Lights, Shoo-Shoo Baby, and Mister Five by Five...