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...invention that replicates the sound of car horns on busy Chinese roads--are lavish, but the exoticism is somehow kept in check. Typical of Albarn's various cultural adventures, he doesn't attempt to pass as a local; the details and pentatonic scale may come from Chinese folk music, but the playful melodies are rooted in pop. The fluttering female voices on "Heavenly Peach Banquet" resolve as the la-la-la-la-las from Minnie Ripperton's "Lovin' You." "Iron Rod" sounds like R2-D2 rapping on a dance floor. "The Living Sea" is a ballad of such delicacy that...
...week. "People come here for a tour and can't believe how little the assembly line is and how the guys are doing so many jobs," says Buell. And when it comes to promoting Buell products at demo days or rallies, plant operators show up alongside the marketing folk. "Who better to sell the product than the employee making it?" says Henry Billingsley, Buell's production manager...
...summer before her freshman year, Sarah H. Arshad ’09 received a Harvard College handbook listing all the concentrations along with explanations of what they were about.“I remember glancing through it and I kind of laughed like, ‘Oh folk and myth that sounds so funny and that was that,’” Arshad said recently.When she came to campus, she jokingly told her roommate that she was considering majoring in Folklore and Mythology, and then decided she should actually check it out.Today, Arshad is a Folk and Myth...
These songs show the problem with the very idea of a Morello folk album. Rage Against the Machine was one of the most important bands of the 90s, and Morello practically invented the genre of “Nu-metal,” but whatever you think of that movement you cannot say that it was subtle. Simplistic left-wing posturing works much better when coupled with loud, powerhouse riffs, and Zack de la Rocha’s rapping than it does here with Morello’s flat voice and only intermittently engaging instrumentation. The volume may have been...
...given the band’s make-up: a duo of a multi-instrumentalist (Rob Barber) and a singer (Mary Pearson). From the very first song, “The Storm,” the band delves into its diverse musical lexicon with a melody reminiscent of traditional Indian folk music. Unfortunately, in the case of this particular track, Pearson’s nursery-rhyme lyrics and vocals don’t quite match the intricacies of the rhythms and instrumentation created by Barber. Despite the juvenile writing, the song is still infectious due to its primitive and up-tempo...