Word: cave
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...clicks and rattles while the harp supplements Björk’s devastating voice, finally given full rein after an album of largely downplayed numbers. In the end, the song dissolves into arpeggiated harp patterns, and a looped keyboard swirl as Björk disappears into the ice cave from whence she came. If the gods are smiling, perhaps Tricky will be lurking somewhere in the shadows, and ready to play...
...true nearly as often. Fortunately, Thalia Zedek, formerly the vocalist for Come and Uzi, has such a female baritone voice showcased on this album—part Leonard Cohen (whom she covers on the elegiac “Dance Me to the End of Love”), part Nick Cave, with the phrasing and sensibility of gloomed out Elliot Smith...
...Cave paintings, all pre-Tuareg, don't interest the tribesmen. But Keenan says they should. After all, what wealthy Westerner wouldn't pay to view ancient paintings in a gallery carved by the elements? So he and his entourage roam, from the black-and-white chessboard flats of Amadror?"I had no idea Nature could be so kitsch"?to the stone steeples of the Tin Ghergoh range, searching for fading ocher smears of mountain goats and jellyfish. Much of the art has been damaged, some by Islamic fundamentalists on a Taliban-like crusade to chisel the world into compliance with...
...spring of 1945, hell came to Okinawa. America was poised to invade; the Japanese Imperial Army drove locals from cave hideouts and told them to sharpen bamboo spears to kill the invading "devil army," which they warned would rape and kill without mercy. Like other Okinawans, the citizens of Katsuyama cowered in wait. What happened next was a secret villagers would bury in one of those caves until three years...
...women scrubbed the bloodied stones and the men dragged the bodies up a steep mountain face through jungle to a narrow, deep cave. They hid the bodies and covered the entrance with rocks, never to be touched until 1998 when local police found the cave and the remains within. "We have always called it Kurombo Gama," says Yasumura. Negro Cave. The three soldiers were black...