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Corker said that he’s been working closely with Veritas Records to design performance space for groups. “We’ve really been taking cues from musicians on campus,” he said. One of the music rooms will contain a drum set for rock-and-roll groups on campus who might have difficulty practicing in House music rooms...
Take “Autrefois,” a Francophone ballad and the record’s most understated track. As strained cello and Spanish guitar pepper the undercurrent of snare drum and legato piano, Forbes murmurs with a distant passion. It doesn’t matter whether you can understand the lyrics, whose protagonist “whisper[s] sweet nothings to all the girls of France” and “hopes that they respond.” Forbes’s voice, echoing cavernously under heavy reverb, oozes unrequited love and regret entirely...
Melancholy is common in the group’s songs (at least seven other pieces focus on love lost or never found), but it never robs the compositions of their sincerity and vibrancy. The slinky double bass and drum brush-work of “Veronique” is cut straight from a smoky Harlem jazz club. “The Gardens of Sampson & Beasley” has a crisp energy in its samba beat that betrays its nostalgic lyrics. “Clementine,” which carries Burt Bacharach’s spirit if not his name, counters...
...forest south of Kampala. About 100 students gather weekly under a leafy canopy. Instructors line up herbs on a thin wooden table cut from a single log. Along with the basics of hygiene and anatomy, students learn the identification and uses of local plants. Meanwhile, spiritualists chant, dance and drum to call down spirits and consult them for cures...
Tight snare-drum marching beats play off the syncopated swagger of a clarinet, creating a theme that runs from “Integrity” straight through “Credits.” Unlike “Eugene,” the music makes you want to see the accompanying show out of curiosity, not confusion...