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feel the walls are falling love is welling up inside crying on the wave we ride |
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feel the walls are falling love is welling up inside crying on the wave we ride |
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- Carol Shutzbank, Big Shout
- a.d. amorosi, Philadelphia City Paper
- CMJ, "Certain Damage" "[Kate] Bush's theatrical, Olde English-balladry style is a sometime inspiration... but so too are the tribal world beat percussive paens of Peter Gabriel and David Byrne."
- Jonathan Takiff, Philadelphia Daily News
- Frank Blank, Philadelphia City Paper |
Lovefeast was produced by Jim Gallagher and Lacy James, and was released in April of 1992. The basic tracks were enhanced by many wonderful guest musicians. In "Song of Songs", Old Testament love poetry drifts through a heavenly arrangement of Arabic and Indian drums, flute and keyboards. "Vengeance Is Mine" finds gothic rock guitars duelling with churchbells and bagpipe drones in a protest of mankind's suicidal drive to dominate the earth. "Silverback", based on the life of gorilla researcher Dian Fossey, blends thundering drums and African percussion with ethereal sounds from a variety of sources: guitars, bass, sythesizers and the Rwandan gorillas themselves -- courtesy of reknowned environmental recordist Bernie Krause. The album was recorded and mixed at Gamble-Huff Studios and Kajem/Victory Studios, and mastered at Masterwork Recording, Inc.
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(see Mereminne Calendar for more details). Osmosis
Lacy has created music for two out of of the three dances on the osmosis program. Her sound score for the second piece, Oracle, is punctuated with moments of silence, alternating forboding and delicate electronic sounds with the sounds of the dancer's costumes and the rasp of cicadas. For the last work on the program, disSolve subMerge, Lacy interweaves manipulations of voice recordings with a variety of electronic sounds, building to the incorporation of Steve Reich's 1965 voice manipulation It's Gonna Rain, Part II in the dance's climactic, penultimate section.
Lacy's music is now playing on Pandora and Last.fm internet radio -- check out these two great websites that select music to play especially for you, based on your own preferences, helping you to discover more new music that you might love. It's very cool (and free) so check it out! The Lovefeast CD and each of its individual tracks are also available as digital downloads through iTunes and many other digital download sites such as MusicNet and Rhapsody. The CD is available online from CDBaby.com. So long and thanks, MP3.com... The innovative music website closed its doors on December 2, 2003. Lovefeast track "White Lion" was featured several times on MP3.com between 1999 and 2001, reaching the #1 position on the Adult Alternative chart. With this exposure the "Lovefeast" single also climbed high on the MP3.com charts, reaching the #7 position in Experimental/Post Rock. Many "stations" on the site included songs from the Lovefeast album in their playlists. Thank you MP3.com! Spirit and Nature -- Mereminne Dancers 2003 season Several of Lacy's compositions were included in Mereminne Dancers' debut New York City season, which took place September 4-6, 2003. In addition to songs and instrumental compositions by Lacy, the program featured music by contemporary American composer Donald Crockett, classical new age pianist Jon Schmidt, Blind Willie Johnson, Single Gun Theory, the Breton band Kornog, Yma Sumac, and Kate Bush/Donovan. Musical Discoveries review; MusicSojourn Russell W. Elliot has written a very nice review of the Lovefeast CD on his website Musical Discoveries, a site devoted to contemporary, progressive and crossover female artists. You can read the review at: http://www.musicaldiscoveries.com/digest/digest.php?a=viewr&id=51 Internet radio station musicsojourn.com includes "Lovefeast" on one of their AAAlternative playlists "... featuring some great new bands and artists - Fisher, The Big Parade, Lacy James - and recent stuff from 10,000 Maniacs, Natalie Merchant & more. You can access the program - Now available in FM Quality - plus links to the detailed playlists, at: http://musicsojourn.com/Playlists/Alternative_Aspects/MS_AA_Playlist_Index.htm" |
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