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Title: RHYTHM, BEAT AND LOGIC
Review: African rhythms and percussions predominate Laurie Anderson's "Mister Heartbreak", an urban spiritual odyssey through a 'West Side Story'-like cityscape that recalls Brian Eno and David Byrne's "My Life In The Bush of Ghosts", and Peter Gabriel's (he guests and produces on the album) "Security" as Congo conscious Western music. The African instrumental intro to the opening track, "Sharkey's Day" sounds just like the opening, rallying whistles of street gangs 'The Sharks' and 'The Jets' in the Broadway musical, "West Side Story" and the album seems to use that Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim score as a blueprint for a radical musical concept of city sidewalks and African pathways cutting across the imagination like a shark on the beach. In other words, it's got a great beat, you can slow-dance to it and it's way cool.
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