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...music starts. He springs up like a grasshopper and dances over his songs' bold introductions. Each song, he explains, has been arranged with a unique instrumental prelude that highlights a particular global sound: an African clay flute scampers across one track, an accordion moans on another, a Uruguayan quijada (jawbone of a donkey) scratches on a third. "We're creating world music in a Long Island basement," he says with a laugh. The song speeds up and, wanting to show off some complicated turns, he asks to have this dance. He's clumsy but an emotional dancer. Then, without warning...
...Messiah. Then, via digital filtering, he drills down to specific instruments, as if microphones had been placed next to them. A digitized timpani track is stunningly realistic and intimate. Jazz legend Herbie Hancock dropped by recently to play with Kyriakakis' toys. He recorded a tune called Butterfly, in which flute notes dart about - left, right, up, down - like the insect's flight. "Stereo is too confining for my music," Hancock said. "It needs more space...
...Beach Boys harmonies are included in “On a Chair,” while “I’m Still a Simple Man” and “Black Dada” feature more mellow sound. True diversity on the album comes with the flute-driven cover of Frankie Kauckles’ “Whistle Song,” and “One Minute of Love,” in which the piano’s rising and falling of speed and pitch resembles the sound of a music box winding down...
...being on my own, I find that I have to plead my case with my parents about even the smallest of details. Who knew each of my parents and I would have a strong opinion about which musical instrument should be playing during the procession? Me, trumpet; Mom, flute; Dad, violin...
...will enter into a priestly order of divine beings by passing through a series of odd Masonic rituals that enable you to confound the conspirators aligned against you. And, if you play your cards right, you might even manage to fall passionately in love and pick up a nifty flute with animal-charming powers along...