Word: eclecticism
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Just what that future will sound like is hard to say. "Maybe people will develop new voices again," muses guitarist Howard Alden. "But with the knowledge of the traditional background, it will have more depth." Saxophonist David Sanborn, 45, a top-selling fusion artist, thinks that many of the current...
The room has spartan furnishings: a round table, a few chairs, a mostly-cleared desk--all still arranged just as they were last spring. There are still eclectic paintings decorating the bland earthy interior walls of the spacious office.
Black's got a good ear and -- judging from his songs -- short patience for affectation of any kind. His lyrics bear down sharp but easy, perhaps because he came to country by a slightly different route. "When I was eight, I started collecting records," he remembers. "But it was the...
Thoughtful lyrics and interesting chord changes serve to establish the band's musical credibility. But what sets O-Positive apart is their synthesis of eclectic musical styles and sounds into a logical, although seldom highly-polished, product. Herlihy prides himself on the ability to use musicians such as violinist Peter...
Perhaps the greatest testament to O-Positive's eclectic embrace of diverse musical genres is "Innernational" --a dance tune with a synthesizer-driven baseline that exposes most current dance songs for the amateur efforts that they are. The song--which Herlihy described in concert as "a political song that's...