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Breathtaking Scenery Keeps 'Atlantis' Afloat
By Adrial Dale
Staff Writer
The legendary sunken city of Adantis
is vividly brought to life in Disney’s
newest animated film “Adantis, The Lost
Empire.”
Milo Thatch (voiced by Michael J.
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"Atlantis, The Lost
Empire”
★★★☆☆
Fox), a historian
and the film’s
main character, is
an Adands buff.
Milo knows every
possible tidbit of
info about the
place - he even knows how to read and
speak their deader-than-Latin language.
After Mr. Whitmore, an eccentric bil
lionaire, calls on Milo to become the lin
guist for a crew soon setting sail for
Adantis, the fantastic journey begins.
Breathtaking action sequences con-
Williams Takes Different Road
By Russ Lane
Managing Editor
For someone who excels in tell-it
like-it-is storytelling, Lucinda Williams
has certainly become a mystery.
Williams follows her 1999 come
back/breakthrough, Car Wheels on a
Gravel Road, with Essence, a slow, tense
album whose cup
of spiritual imagery
runneth over. But
with all the
album’s references
and metaphors, it’s
a little unclear
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Lucinda Williams
Essence
★★★★☆
whose word she’s proclaiming.
When she rips into “Get Right with
God,” which is a cross between a fun
damentalist anthem and a snake
charmin’, washboard-music-makin’
revival, she gives both the serpents and
God Almighty equal time. The CD
cover booklet contains tense, voodoo
esque images: loudly colored grave
flowers; two corpses locked in an
embrace; a fence-post cross stuck in the
middle of swampy farmland with “Get
Right with God” written in paint.
Has Williams, whose songs have
always been as Southern as sweet tea,
traded the Bible Belt for the Voodoo
Blues Traveler Crosses New Bridge
By Jonathan Miller
Online Editor
Blues Traveler is back. After being
knocked against the ropes in 1999 with
the death of founding member Bobby
Sheehan and serious heart surgery for
eclectic frontman/harmonica player John
Popper, Blues Traveler have returned
with anew lineup and a multi-layered
new sound.
Though Blues
Traveler has fea
tured keyboards
and pianos on
other studio
releases, the group
, 'a/bum\
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Blues Traveler
Bridge
★★★★☆
recruited Ben Wilson as their full time
keys player prior to recording Bridge.
The full-time addition adds an attractive
new element to Blues Traveler.
Instead of forcing Popper to erupt
into harmonica fury in every song,
Wilson’s keyboard instead takes some of
the lead instrument burden from the
frontman. The resulting sound is refresh
ingly different though somewhat famil
iar to previous albums. Their two lead
instruments establish themselves and
talk back and forth to each other from
track to track as the album proceeds.
“The Way” demonstrates this
dynamic. Though Popper showcases his
harmonica chops in the solo, the rest of
the instrumental fills are primarily the
keyboard work of Wilson. The two lead
musicians come together in the outro
solo and their two distinct sounds weave
together to bring a satisfying end to the
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tribute to the overall energy of the film.
In one scene the Adantis voyager nar
rowly escapes the wrath of the part-lob
ster, part-machine leviathan vessel,
which guards the entrance to Adantis.
This entire scene pulls you into the
action and has you vigorously dodging
and twisting in your theater chair in a firtile
effort to steer the on-screen action. The
amazing detail and fluidity of such action
scenes allow you to disregard the fact that
the figures are mere drawings and experi
ence the action as if it were real.
Vibrant colors and texture depth as
well give “Adantis” an authentic feel, as
if legend has truly come to life. Towering
moss-covered monuments and water
falls of the deepest turquoise help make
the island’s landscape one of the most
pleasing aspects of the film.
But while in Adantis, there are not
many scenes showcasing this magnifi
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doll to fuel her muse?
Who knows for sure. But like Voodoo,
an emotionally-charged, wildly spiritual
energy pervades Essence. Direct and fright
ening in its honesty, the album wails
about larger-than-life emotions - from
religious devotion to sexual longing, from
slow-burning anger to exhausted loneli
ness - in a misleadingly small-scale man
ner. No songs on Essence are like the
anthem-like nature of her most famous
work.
And she wants it that way. Essence
also pits Williams against fairweather
fans wanting to hear “Right in Time” or
“Passionate Kisses” ad infinitum.
The good news is Williams has won
that fight - she’s taken a wildly different
ft*' %
song.
The band’s first single, “Girl Inside
My Head” also showcases Wilson’s key
board talents and is absent of Popper’s
signature harmonica playing. Popper
shares the song and music writing duties
on this track with the band's other new
addition, bass player Tad Kinchala.
Kinchala, brother of lead guitarist
Chan, has already formed a tight low-end
cohesion with drummer Brendan Hill,
though this is the first recorded work from
the duo. Kinchala and Hill’s connection is
best demonstrated in “Rage.” The rhyth
mic team lead off the track and establish
the bluesy beat that carries the song.
“All Hands” sounds like an homage to
Phish, and that is not a bad thing.
Clocking in at about five minutes, one of
the album’s longest songs, drummer Hill
makes gratuitous use of his ride cymbal in
Phish fashion while keys player Wilson
plays dreamy keyboard fills. At any
moment, it seems as though Phish lead
singer Trey Anastasio will make a cameo
cent beauty nor is much explained
about the island’s civilization. There is
very little exploration of the 8,800-year
old culture, something which would
seemingly be near the top of any con
temporary explorers’ to-do list. The lit
tle that is displayed of the long-lost
empire simply leaves you wanting more.
But even though the background
scenery and action are sensational, the
film’s figure animation is reminiscent of
after-school cartoons. Their choppy and
blocky rendering is an unfortunate let
down that detracts from the overall qual
ity of the film.
While the film is certainly able to
entertain all age groups, “Atlantis” is tar
geted more toward the younger viewers.
The story is very simplistic, functioning
wholly to take the viewers to the sub
merged paradise as soon as possible
with very little character development in
approach to her lyrics and arrange
ments from the Dylan-Mitchell style on
Car Wheels, wandering through all man
ner of Southern musical terrain instead.
And while it might take a while for Car
Wheel s’ devotees to adjust, Essence’s eclec
ticism rewards the effort. “Bus to Baton
Rouge” is a hand-to-God gospel anthem
about regret; “Out of Touch” and “Are
you Down,” are spacey ballads that have
far more in common with PJ Harvey
than Dylan. “Lonely Girls,” has a straight
up blues structure supported by a faintly
Caribbean rhythm and Williams’ long,
beautifully fatigued phrasing. “Broken
Butterflies” follows suit, ending the album
with a haunting goodbye.
Essence’s title track -and one of the best
songs on this consistent album - is an ode
to self-destruction disguised as a love
song. Williams achingly delivers lines like
“Baby/ Sweet baby/ Whisper my name/
Shoot your love into my vein” in a man
ner that’s more sinister than sexy, more
painful than celebratory, and the band’s
bluesy grit only adds to the menace.
So what’s it all mean? Who cares.
Don’t try to figure out this diverse gem
- just listen and enjoy the mystery.
Russ Lane can be reached at
wlane@email.unc.edu.
to sing the chorus with Popper.
Regardless, Blues Traveler may finally
be heading away from the jam-band, fun
loving vibe that helped them gain popu
larity and instead begin to explore more
intimate topics in their songs. These
songs, though seemingly familiar, are
hopefully a foreshadowing of the music to
come from the New Jersey five-piece.
Jonathan Miller can be reached at
jlmiller@email.unc.edu.
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