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Sorry for drifted apostrophe: that should be The Zutons's Valerie. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jamie McKendrick" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 1:45 PM Subject: Re: New on Netartery > Jim - just seen you're post on Amy Winehouse. I share your admiration but > was a bit surprised about the emphasis on the US influences: > > "She's such a Londoner but she's also so deeply influenced by USAmerican > jazz and soul... Sometimes jazz can just have 'too many notes'. > The profundity of the UK/USA musical bond is nowhere so evident as in > Winehouse." > > Which seems to elide the influence of a much smaller place: Jamaica. Her > Back to Black (her best so far) is an extended and beautiful homage to > ska, and specifically to Desmond Dekker. > > And of course Liverpool. Her brilliant version of the Zuton's Valerie adds > ska to scouse, and shows she's as eclectic as she ought to be. > > Jamie > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Andrews" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 12:21 PM > Subject: New on Netartery > > >> Recent on http://netartery.vispo.com , >> Netartery, writers gone wrong >> >> AMY WINEHOUSE LINKS >> http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=371 >> Links to several videos of songs by, compilation interviews with, and >> articles about the voice. >> >> NIGHTINGALE'S PLAYGROUND >> http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=373 >> Nightingale's Playground is an ambitious online work of digital fiction >> by Andy Campbell divided into four interlinked parts: an atmospheric >> browser based experience; an interactive virtual book with pages you can >> turn with the mouse; a short eBook download; and an immersive 3D >> game-like application that takes the written word into strange new >> dimensions. >> >> INSTANT POETRY PATENTS >> http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=342 >> David Jhave Johnston on an idea in algorithmic poetry. >> >> SIGN AFTER THE X >> http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=329 >> A review of a new work of net art by David Clark, author of 'A is for >> Apple' and '88 Constellations for Wittgenstein'. >> >> SUFFEROSA, AN "INTERACTIVE MOVIE" >> http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=317 >> Links to a new online work by Dawid Marcinkowski, and interesting >> comments on related work by Toni Dove. >> >> AUNTIE GEORGIE >> http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=311 >> Link to an online photo memorial to Jim Andrews's aunt, and writing about >> her life and work as a "ballsy banker with soul." >> >> ja >> Sept 28/2010