Word: ambiente
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...flocking to the area for its year-round skiing. There are two Finnish saunas, a dampfbad (steam bath) and a whole host of esoteric treatments on offer, including sea-salt peels, lymphatic drainage and meditation coaching. There's even a floatarium?a saltwater pool in a private room with ambient melodies piped in. The Von Trapps would never recognize it, but such is the new sound of music in Zell...
...lived in diabolical symbiosis with a bacterium, Pseudomonas fluorescens, which was degrading the fungicide, so the restorers added antibiotics to the mix in which they soaked bandages to plaster the lower walls of the cave. Tons of quicklime, which kills the fungus but also temporarily raised the cave's ambient temperature, was spread on the floor. Since the worst of the infection has been brought under control, "mechanical removal" continues - that is, carefully plucking the filaments from the wall by hand...
...area for its year-round skiing. There are two Finnish saunas, a dampfbad (or steam bath) and a whole host of esoteric treatments on offer, including sea-salt peels, lymphatic draining and meditation coaching. There's even a floatarium - a salt-water pool in a private room with ambient melodies piped in. The Von Trapps would never recognize it, but such is the new sound of music in Zell...
...turned her back on this success to pursue her first love: music. Amazingly, she’s proved even better at her second career than her first, confounding expectations and enlivening the otherwise dismal constellation of crossover stars. “Son” is a delicate gem of ambient folk-pop, a smooth-flowing album that’s a pleasure from start to finish. On previous albums, she drifted from on extreme to another, from lush electronic soundscapes to unornamented acoustic guitar lines. With “Son,” she finds her balance: all the elements?...
...world audience when they released their “Congotronics” album. It quickly became required listening for every DJ and music collector on the block. The resulting songs were built on the foundation of African polyrhythms, but have new sounds from the city streets: jagged guitar lines, ambient fuzz, and distorted vocals. This homemade Kinshasa sound stands at an acoustic crossroads between folk, noise, and electronica, and its records are attracting fans from all genres. In “Congotronics 2,” a compilation featuring seven Kinshasa-area bands, the music gains a wider scope, which...