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...This folk-pop amalgam never descends into coffeehouse cliché. For most of the songs, the Mexican chanteuse accompanies her velvety voice on acoustic guitar and now and then some rocking accordion. (Yes, accordions can rock.) She even experiments with reggaeton on Primer Día but makes it her own by adding Spanish guitar. The title track recalls a Yellow Submarine--era Beatles--as digested by Mexico. But it's the effortless singing and light tropical beat on Sin Documentos that catch Venegas at her swayworthy best...
...musical language of the “Cello Concerto” is rooted in the European avant-garde tradition, yet it is also packed with references to Korean folk music. Techniques such as pizzicato and the use of glissando echo instruments native to Korea...
...draws heavily on the books that populate her novel, moving freely from text to text. Ben’s narrative interweaves with the children’s books that his mother wrote, with the old Yiddish authors who knew his grandfather in Russia, with funeral songs and folk tales and his father’s letters from Vietnam. There are real-life sources propping up Horn’s novel as well: the central art-theft story is ripped from old headlines of The New York Times, when a Chagall painting did in fact disappear during a singles?...
...Greek Folk Dance...
...your Greek on with the friendly folk of the Greek Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary...