Out Loud

HOMni-why: Benefit-album for the human rights and freedom of lesbian and gays ; artists openly lesbian, gay ou homophiliac; songs with lesbian and gay content

Who: BETTY, The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet, Billy Bragg, Daniel Cartier, disappear fear, Everything But The Girl, Melissa Ferrick, Girls in the Nose, The Gretchen Phillips Experience, Indigo Girls, The Jazz Passengers, Judybats, The Mekons, Throwing Muses, U2, Voice Farm, Y'ALL.

OUT LOUD -

For the human rights and freedom of lesbian and gays (Knitting Factory Works/Cargo, 1995)

by Tony Esposito

Original French article published in Homo Sapiens no. 25, vol. 2, November 1995

Here is a good cause album for the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission, with Deneuve, 10 Percent and The Advocate as sponsors, with some big names (U2, Indigo Girls, Throwing Muses, Billy Bragg and Everything But The Girl) and some less known. Seventeen songs of all styles: country, folk, rock, jazz, dance, ska and their possible fusion (heavy-folk for Indigo Girls, for example). Sometimes funny (My Man, Our Horses, and Me by Y'ALL and Wedding Are Icky by Girls On The Nose), romantic (Swim To Me by Jazz Passengers and I Don't Understand Anything by Everything But The Girl), dramatic (Cole Porter's Night And Day by U2), militant (Shave Your Head by Voice Farm), explicit (Pease Park by Gretchen Phillips Experience and Kiss My Sticky by BETTY) or simply musical (Tri-Monk by Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet), the different pieces link to each other, an unusual strenght in this kind of compilation. A lot of live recording. No lyrics in the booklet. I am telling you so you are not surprised when you will get this record. Because it is a nice thing to give... or received.


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