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Cameras supposedly don't lie, yet in this lovely, wordless story the photos from a camera found by a boy on a beach are hard to believe--fantastical creatures, underwater realms, seashell cities. What to do with such a magical device? One shot gives the clue: a self-portrait of a child holding a self-portrait of a child, and so on, back through the generations. The boy tosses the camera into the ocean, to become flotsam on the imagination of another youth on another shore...
...God’s Silence,” Wright is too eager to escape into wordless epiphany. Ultimately, his graceful generalities fail to satisfy...
Alison Goldfrapp has described her band's third album as a "place to take part in fortnightly disco sances." If you like your dance divas nuttier than a fruitcake, she's definitely your gal. What's surprising is that Goldfrapp (who started out as the wordless howler on Tricky's finest albums) and musical partner Will Gregory also have a sublime pop sensibility. Ooh la la is a sticky homage to Norman Greenbaum's Spirit in the Sky and Kylie Minogue's lyric book ("switch me on/ turn me up"). Meanwhile, the synth-rock ballad Number 1 has enough...
...music that is most remarkable: he fuses Marley-like beats and melodies with a wordless Hasidic vocal scat style known as "niggun" and lyrics that extol spiritual devotion to God. Matisyahu’s second CD, "Live at Stubb’s" jetted up the charts last year, eventually climbing into the Top 40 with over 100,000 copies sold...
...merit of this approach for an audience familiar with his recorded material. Lyrical couplets like “Frozen, the river that baptized you/And the horse died standing up” came to the fore, and his gentle chorus hung over the crowd. Beam’s wordless, falsetto harmonizing with his sister Sarah in the middle of the song was hauntingly beautiful on stage.“Faded from the Winter” was the most surprising success, as Beam replaced the driving folk guitar of the recorded version with—are those palm-muted power chords? Beam...