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Christ--fifty-some-odd film scores, according to the IMDb--
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Copeland,+Stewart
Plus an opera about the Crusades, "Holy Blood and Crescent Moon," and a piece for drums and orchestra entitled "The Stars that Played with Lucky Joe's Cards." Explored African music years before Paul Simon, with THE RHYTHMATIST.
Wonderfully edgy, angular, and bent.
His collaborators, on the other hand, are evil incarnate and blight everything they touch: Les Claypool, from Primus, is a hyperactive cretin who wouldn't know songcraft or melody if it bit him on the ass--interminable bass solos, cartoon voices, a deeply unappealing self-conscious jokiness--while Trey Anastasio, who as leader of Phish was a godhead for a half a million patchouli-stinking trustafarians, is a whiny show-off, another one who thinks he's "funny."
Honestly, this project just promises sprawl. The beauty of the Police was the fierce concision of the music--clipped, razor-sharp, full of open spaces. Animal Logic, which at first blush seemed to threaten similar over-indulgence, was tethered and harnessed to some lovely, crisp songwriting: when all was said and done, it was really Deborah Holland's band.
But these three, with no-one to ride herd on 'em--ugh. Twenty-minute solos all around, a "supergroup" of the worst kind: I'm gagging at the thought of it.
[ 24-09-2001: Message edited by: Jack Fear ] |
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