Word: bongo
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...Zealand’s formerly fourth-most famous guitar-based digi-bongo a capella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo have finally put out their first full-length album, and though it’s all laughs, it’s nothing new from Bret and Jemaine. For fans of their hit TV show “Flight of the Conchords,” their eponymous debut album will likely just be sort of a season-in-song disc, but for those unfamiliar with the HBO series the laughs might be a little out of context. With the new season right...
...particularly raucous group of men’s volleyball fans—equipped with a bongo drum, face paint, and a host of articulate insults for the opponent—demonstrated at a recent home game, sometimes you must make your own magic...
...Maybe Less” to the bluesy groove of “Red Dust.” “He Lays in the Reins” best encapsulated this cooperative spirit, and the night as a whole. Beam and Burns shared the stage with Duran, two drummers, a bongo player, two trumpets, a pedal steel guitar player, among others. After some initial mixing problems, these diverse elements blended together perfectly.Good music this varied rarely comes in one package. That it did on this night was a gift to all present, young and old, scenester and stockbrocker alike...
...brief, frenetic bongo riff leads to the vocal theme-each of title's four words held for a full bar-accompanied by the bass drum working out (at a much slower tempo) the immortal boom, ba-doom intro to Fats Domino's 1957 "I'm Walkin'." (The guys are singing heavenly choir, but the drums say Big Easy.) Then we're back in marching mode, with a piano and, for a few bars, a mocking trumpet. This time, all four Seasons participate in the narrative; the backing vocals don't just underline the story, they sometimes undermine it. Frankie sings...
...Walk Like a Man. The bongo riffs that began "Sherry" and "Big Girls Don't Cry" give way to a fusillade of snare-drum aggression: a declaration of the war between the sexes. On his third try, Gaudio found a narrative use for the tramp-tramp-tramp beat of the first two songs: I'm gonna march right out of your heart. Valli's falsetto croons a pretty, otherworldly air while the other Seasons bark out, "Walk! Walk! Walk! Walk!" In three series of this long march (played at the beginning, middle and end, and expending more than half...