Word: fluting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ladies" is a heart-felt ballad of fallen women whose flute and guitar lines immediately call to mind "Sossity: You're a Woman," the final song of the Benefit sessions. The chorus is also reminiscent of the Sossity refrain and is polyphonically mixed to give a dreamy portrayal of the ladies' allure. The tune closes with an upbeat rhythm phrase bolstered by the orchestra's solid horn section...
Towards the end of the song, Anderson can't resist mentioning the chaotic state of the world and the pleasure of the king, who day after day, flips the switch as play is resumed. The track is well constructed, beginning with flute, guitar and sundry animal growlings hinting at a safari into the darkest depths of Africa. The beat is promptly established allowing the glass-like quality of Barre's guitar to cut through the string section's forceful countermelody...
...another part of the sonata's power is the ineffable sadness of its last movement, when the four-note theme comes in for the last time on a flute--Thoreau's flute, Ives explained. The flute's been silent for the first three movements, and the tune comes in slowly and quietly, without preparation or roots, out of the blue. The sonata ends without a resolution. It is as though the old hymns couldn't stand against the bombast of fate knocking on the door. It is as though Ives had admitted that his father's world was gone...
...Baroque Folk. Carol Epple, Baroque flute; Ruth Rubinow, viola dagamba; Stephen Hefling, Baroque violin; Frances Fitch, harpsichord. Works of Turini, Telemann, Couperin. Free. Sunday...
...tune is marked instrumentally by the melodic exchange between organ and synthesizer which further on develops into an exchange of several phrases between Wood's flute and Winwood's piano. The piece reaches its climax with several rapid-fire sax glissandos and the re-entering of the synthesizer. There is not only a shift in melody and countermelody among instruments, but a shift in rhythm, too. Finally, in the title cut, Winwood delivers one of his most vocally concentrated efforts with lyrics along the same theme as "Sometimes I Feel So Uninspired...