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...political oppression--but these flavors are over-fused and hyper-blended into watered-down mush. In including too much, Gedida is mostly empty and ineffective. It doesn't make you want to dance, it makes you want to shop. Perhaps a late-'90s Ofra Haza, Atlas has produced ideal background music for burning incense, vintage clothes or those times when you want to impress guests with slightly exotic, non-English, just sexy-enough, worldliness...
...again. Lee Fields, known as "Little J.B." to his friends "throughout the global funk community," has made a valiant effort to resurrect what he considers the fallen genre of "rough, nasty and genuine" '70s funk in this album. What the album lacks in musical talent (the band and the background singer have a few problems with consistency and staying together, and Fields himself isn't exactly James Brown), it definitely makes up for in character. Funk was played to bring smiles to people's faces and motion to their feet, and Let's Get A Groove On certainly does...
...play came from the constant reminders that this time would not last, or, as one character put it, "We just lived through history." The different acts of the play were framed by commentary from the narrator, Lucas (Christopher Sahm '01), who is plays the young, timid novice in the background while his narration reflects the experience of an older man. Both outside forces--the network's lack of support for the show, the repressive atmosphere of the McCarthy era--and internal ones threaten the happy time represented by Laughter, as time itself brings changes to all of the characters...
...again, Lee Fields, known as "Little J.B." to his friends "throughout the global funk community," has made a valiant effort to resurrect what he considers the fallen genre of "rough, nasty and genuine" '70s funk in this album. What the album lacks in musical talent (the band and the background singer have a few problems with consistency and staying together, and Fields himself isn't exactly James Brown), it definitely makes up for in character. Funk was played to bring smiles to people's faces and motion to their feet, and Let's Get A Groove On certainly does...
...political oppression--but these flavors are overfused and hyper-blended into watered-down mush. In including too much, Geddia is mostly empty and ineffective. It doesn't make you want to dance, it makes you want to shop. Perhaps a late-'90s Ofra Haza, Atlas has produced ideal background music for burning incense, vintage clothes or those times when you want to impress guests with slightly exotic, non-English, just sexy-enough worldliness. Judith Batalion