Earlier this month, I got hired as the Lifestyle Editor for BLOUIN ARTINFO Canada.
I’m appreciating the return to writing — eons ago, I was a style columnist with the now-defunct alt weekly EYE, so it’s fun to write about the fashunz once again.
You can read whatever I write here: http://ca.blouinartinfo.com/tags/rea-mcnamara
As a result of the new gig, I’m taking a break from my social interventions. Me luv the parties, but mama’s gotta get her munny.
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Terry Callier - What Color is Love (1973)
Like the artist himself, the music on this brilliant album defies all categories, embracing Terry Callier’s wide range of influences and experiences. Callier’s musical kaleidoscope is filled with funk, rock, folk, jazz, and even classical influences. “Dancing Girl” opens the album with Charles Stepney’s majestic orchestration. This opus is the album’s pinnacle, moving with soft intensity toward soul-stirring crescendos. Songs like “What Color Is Love” and “Ho Tsing Mee (A Song of the Sun),” an elegant antiwar prayer of confusion, somehow avoid clichés or take them to another level. “You Goin’ to Miss Your Candyman” was made popular by Urban Species when they sampled it on “Listen” in the early ’90s, and not surprisingly, it sounds better in its original form. No matter where you turn, Callier’s passionate voice captures the sweeping drama of the human condition. A lost romantic amid “concrete front yards,” this album is a must-have for any music connoisseur.
The Sacred Movement Rituals dialogue thus far for Moonshine Cabaret.
As my co-conspirator in living artfully in a fragmented world, I invite you to participate in this exploration of movement, art and body-soul unification. All you need to do is “join”.
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