Frenchy’s Fracas

General Info
Artist: Rad. ||
Location: De Melkweg, Amsterdam
When: 01 March 2008

Who?
I know Rad. or Rose Ann Dimalanta from her 1992 album Radified. It’s a nostalgia thing, love the album. Read she’d be performing live with a great band including saxophone majesty Eric Leeds, I was curious.
Check out some of his performances at .

The Show
Ouch.. The place was at half its capacity and it showed. Rad. did their best to give a prodfessional show, and they succeeded, more or less.

Songs that Stood Out
Homegirls Cha Cha Network
Great nostalgic feeling.

10 (Madhouse track)
Listen, boys and girls: Madhouse is one of my favorite bands, read my review of one their albums.
So to get the chance to hear a track from them co-performed by original band member Eric Leeds, was an absolute treat!!

Wishy
That’s when we left..

Conclusion
Hard to rate this concert: on the one hand, the material wasn’t that captivating. While on the other, the band commanded respect for their hard work.
It just didn’t work. Thrilled about Eric Leeds, and I wasn’t the only one: former Paisley Park co-worker and Dutch sax-diva Candy Dulfer was in the crowd along with her dad, Hans Dulfer, another sax-master from the Lowlands.
Meh, nostalgia doesn’t always work, I guess..

Rating: (Mostly because of the band, not the gig itself)

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General Description
Artist/Band: Rad.
Album Title: Radified
Year: 1992

Haunting voice from the past..
 
How I Got Into This Music
Heh.. A very dear old friend of mine introduced me to this album. Times change, so do friendships and I never got the chance to copy it. Always remembering one or two songs but never actually having the album was a serious annoyance.
So this week I went to the music library at the Rotterdam Library and rented the CD. Funny, they had it all that time and it never occurred to me before to actually check if it was there..
Anyways, “Rad.” is not a type, that’s how the artist, Rose Anne Dimalanta names herself.
I remember really, really enjoying certain tracks and really, really not enjoying some others.
But the elusiveness of it all certainly was enchanting, just like her music.

Tracks that got my attention:

First Jamm
I like a track that grabs you by the throat and shouts at you “Listen, this is what the album is about, okay?!?”. Groove hyped-up bass, great horn section, lovely voice and it leaves you begging for more, more and more..

Wishy
Still gotta start working out the bass tabs on this song, lovely work. Her voice really gets you into the mellow jazz mood.

Time to Change
A lovely albeit a bit.. tiresome ballad. Annoying thing is that.. well, sometimes it ain’t that tiresome and it just hits the spot, hard to explain, I guess..

Homegirls Cha-Cha Network
Now this track’s a real hipshaker!

Private Room
Classic ballad, wowweeeee! It’s that “Dim The Lights, Baby, And Let’s Get Nasty..”™ kinda track..

Get Radified!
Energy! Pure Energy! It takes a great command of will or a total shutdown of the vital organs to listen to this track and not wanting to jump on a dance floor and move that tush like it’s nobody’s business..

Conclusion
Great to hear the album again!! What amazes me is that after all these years I still get the same sense of amazement: Who is that girl? Why ain’t she ruling the charts? Why haven’t I seen her live (yet), godsdammit?!?!
I’ve listened to a later album, but that hasn’t got the same effect on me of course.. Maybe I should wait another ten years and listen to it again, heheh..

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