Word: cappella
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Jesus' Blood made its impact by repeating, for nearly an hour, a phrase of a hymn tune sung by an old man on a London street and recorded by a TV crew filming a documentary on derelicts. Bryars devised a kaleidoscopic accompaniment for the man's a cappella tape loop, slowly shifting and swelling the instrumentation and finally bringing on Tom Waits near the end to sing a raw, urgent posthumous duet...
...robust, nimble voice -- "There's not a weak link in the bunch," says Jam -- and the group turns almost every song on II into a vocal workout. Water Runs Dry, with its plaintive singing backed by a spare acoustic guitar, creates a mood of sublime melancholy. An a cappella cover of the Beatles' Yesterday is movingly inflected with gospel-inspired harmonies...
...spiritually drained, unable to continue my relentless self-examination. Also I have a big midterm coming up. Don't think that I've given up for good, though. No stone will be left unturned by my ontological quest for being. (Well, if it comes to going to an a cappella concert I might wait until grad school.) I'm not going to graduate from this place until I've had a consciousness-altering encounter. I'm probably not going to graduate from this place anyway, because I forgot to take Expos. If you can help me find the Other, drop...
...bomb scare at Memorial Hall Saturday night threatened to cancel a scheduled a cappella concert, but University officials allowed the concert to proceed after determining there was no danger, Harvard Police Lt. William K. Donaldson said yesterday...
...release from the playful Toronto band Moxy Fruvous. Make no mistake, Bargainville is a true bargain Whereas Danny Peck uses many different styles and instruments to produce a weak sound, Moxy Fruvous gets a tremendously impressive sound from only a few instruments. These four guys combine excellent a cappella four part harmonies with acoustic guitar, accordion, snare drum and hand percussion. Imagine They Might Be Giants mixed with all-acoustic Phish, then add in a touch of Harvard Din and Tonics...