Word: calypso
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...gods on Mount Olympus know, of course: Odysseus has been stranded for seven years on the island of Calypso, a goddess who loves him and has offered to "make the man immortal, ageless, all his days." But Odysseus says no. He wants to go home. Those who have never read any translation of the Odyssey will find much that is familiar in Fagles' retelling of the hero's homeward adventures. The cannibalistic one-eyed giant Polyphemus; Circe, the temptress who turns her prospective lovers into swine; the Sirens, whose songs lure seafarers to shipwreck: we have somehow heard...
...like my stuff?"--a long calypso-sounding tune--made good use of the backing band's djunbe and conga players while creating space for Diddley to explore. Fiddling with effects switches, scratching his guitar strings and playing muted chords, Diddley left the basic pentatonic blues behind to experiment with more textural sounds...
...even eagerness, to defy categorization and expectation, to mix and match several musical genres and traditions in order to make new sounds. Des'ree was born in London, but her mother is from Guyana and her father from Barbados; she spent her formative teenage years in Barbados listening to calypso and reggae, both of which can be heard gently rocking her songs today. Tricky, son of a Jamaican mother and a "half-white, half-African" father, comes from the British city of Bristol, a multiethnic urban center that inspired him to make "mutant music for a mutant age." His stylistically...
...probably the most promising new song on "Voodoo Lounge." All the same, it begins with a too-standard blues bass line. The funky horns are a nice addition, but the song doesn't bring blues as far as the easy rumble of "Honky Tonk Women" or the casual calypso flavor of "Crackin...
...real gift was for music. He played the violin obsessively, retreating to the bathroom with bow in hand for three to five hours at a stretch. He also sang and played guitar and, after leaving college, appeared on Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour and in nightclubs as Calypso Gene or the Charmer. He has said that after hearing Elijah Muhammad speak in 1955, he had a dream in which he was expected to choose between show business and an unknown future -- and he chose the unknown...