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...other forgotten greats. Which wouldn’t be so bad—the group’s debut, 1994’s “Dummy,” is one of the most lauded albums of the genre, not to mention the decade. Heavy with lush, sexual bass lines and cinematic string arrangements, “Dummy” brought a sultry sort of half-humanity to the genre. While any vocals on Massive Attack’s debut, “Blue Lines,” were samples—and alienating ones at that?...
...despite handling the crescendos in an almost too-professional manner, still sounded harmonious—thus creating great expectations for what was to come after the intermission. However, to the conductor’s surprise, the stage was only partially full when the brief intermission ended. One of the bass players was missing in action, but this hindrance did not prevent Yannatos from sticking to the schedule and beginning Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, albeit with one musician absent (the bassist’s later, hurried return to the stage was not quite inconspicuous). The somber solo trumpet...
...members in the group. For the Mexican-American members, Mariachi Veritas is “a way to share our culture with the other members of the group and the Harvard community,” according to David Garcia ’09, who plays the guitarron, a Mexican bass. “We sing in Spanish, even though we don’t understand what we’re singing,” Yapp says. But according to Viramontes, understanding the language is secondary. “The music communicates what the song it trying...
...claims in the first track, to read the listener’s mind—but only the darkest, most painful, and most secret recesses of it. Take the track “Monkey Powder,” most memorable for its grating, repetitive electric guitar and use of bass chords over a monotonous drum beat. This could seem to be a lapse in the creativity and melodic capacity of the artists, but taken in the context of the whole album, it serves as an effective moment of anger, as the singer demands, “Can you feel...
...anymore, all right? I know I used to love party jams, but I’m going to be a professor soon. Well, in six years soon. I’ve got to start buying serious music with no bass line. Fuck.” Currently listening to: “Neon Bible,” by the Arcade Fire. Will soon be listening to: “Classical music? I don’t know, what do Linguistics professors listen to? Oh man, I’m so in over my head, I really should have taken that...