Word: drummers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Much of Kodo's performance is visual; beauty of style and sound meld in "Yae-No-Furyu" and "Yamauta." In the latter, one performer approaches a drum measuring eight feet across, elevated on a platform strung with lanterns. Accompanied only by a mournful flute and finger cymbals, the drummer slams his mallets into this colossal drum, invoking not only the sounds, but the surging rage...
...recent Monday night at Charlie's Tap Jazz Club in Central Square, notes of Miles Davis filtered through the dark club onto the street. In the middle of a smoky haze, the keyboardist sweated, the saxaphonist swayed and the drummer bobbed his head in time with the music...
...kind of fervor needed for the later "Modern Log" and "Opportune Moment." Except for the ballad, the songs were similar in form; they began with a Belle and Sebastian like delicacy and built up to a passionate central moment that belied the simplicity of the band's instruments (drummer Shawn Sears plays only a bass drum, snare, tom, and cymbals). "Modern Log" featured Perrino in a delirious state of glossolalia, faintly reminiscent of Eddie Vedder in the early and earnest "Jeremy" days. "I'm a Believer" began with an innocent guitar/bass duet and ended with each band member convulsing...
...audience members by affectionate nicknames--"Beardman" and "That Other Bearded Guy" were both duly acknowledged. If anything, Friday's performance proved that fancy drum kits do not good music make; the heart of rock and roll can be found in a simple trio of a delirious frontman, a competent drummer and a deeply concerned bassist...
Kent's music is often marked by melancholy, like Radiohead or The Cure, but they played with such spirit as to make it equally life-affirming. The epic seven-minute-and-forty-seven-second "747" was a fitting song to close on. Markus Mustonen, the drummer, began the song by quietly patting away with brushes; by the end, he was driving an urgent rhythm with drumsticks. Sami Sirvio, the lead guitarist, broke a string about five minutes into "747," but his relentless playing never skipped a beat...