Word: congas
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...typical performance, it was not unusual to hear an impeccably played piano passage which drew heavily on Liszt, followed by a chant to the goddess Yemaya, followed by an extended conga solo, which in turn would be followed by a blues tune based on Mozart--all unmistakably Irakere...
...same way he did for the first album. But words have taken on less significance in and of themselves for T-Heads and are more an integral part--almost as instruments unto themselves--of the ebb and flow of the music. Take away also those dizzying circles of conga drums and thickly textured layers of guitars that gave that last effort its quality of a cheap throbbing hypnotist. My God what have we done?'''' It's funk...
Sorrentino, an avid and adept punster, hits his stride when it comes to creating lists. While in "Nawlins," the birthplace of jazz, two "frenchies" recite for Blue some of the great names of Jazz such as Jimbo Verlaine's Rainmakers, Fats Gide with the Baton Rouge Boys, Valery Conga, Booker Cesaire, Cheech Mauriac with the Femmes Fatales and Peanuts Prevert. Or take the roll call of an academic cocktail party where...
...perhaps the most endearing virtue of big spenders is that they are wonderfully entertaining. There is nothing like them. If a conga line could be made up extending from Qin Shihuang and Elagabalus, through Hearst, the sheiks and Allan Carr, we would need no Broadway shows. It is not just their poly urethane clouds and disco chambers; it is their hilarious innocence, their religious concentration on themselves. What's more, they rarely know how entertaining they are. Nero, for example, when he entered his Golden House with its statue of him self, 120 feet high, and its private lake...
What's your pleasure? A "steel pianist" who plays Beethoven's Für Elise on the cut-off top of a 55-gal. oil drum? Step right up. A conga drummer with a silver earring in one nostril and a red gem in the other, or a classical guitarist in top hat, tails and tennis shoes? Right this way. String quartets, punk rockers, brass quintets, bagpipers, country crooners, dixieland stompers, ad hoc duos of every string, woodwind and percussive persuasion? Just around the corner...