Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party - Gold & OrangeFor their first album on MCA, Oingo Boingo dispensed with the aggressive high energy of their previous albums and created a more traditional Alternative Rock album with Dead Man's Party. The first taste came with yet another soundtrack song, 'Weird Science'. The danceable electro pop song charted in the mid 40's on the Billboard singles chart, which would be their highest charting single release. Continuing to increase their exposure, the band

FrazyFord and Fight the Big Bull

traditional percussion and infectious Mande guitar grooves

What can I say about Joel Scott Hill

each helmed by a different

when brothers Bruce and Sheridan Fahnestock recorded the indigenous musics of Bali

It's variable line-up is adjusted according to the needs of individual projects which mostly consist of tailor-made arrangements of music originally composed for other instruments

he adapted in one evening two short movements from earlier works as a gift to the Jean Vuillaume Quartet

The album closes with One with the Darkness

though they are little heard in concert these days

It has been described as "fiery" in the New York Times

Laurie San Martin

he turned to music in his early life