Word: fusions
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...ears; the band’s beats and riffs are dense and quick-paced, introducing dissonance into supple vocals and generally submerging traditional melodies in a wash of sound that would be at home in any scenester dance club. Other bands on this album reflect varying degrees of similar fusion. On Masanka Sankayi’s track, electronic effects add a sheen of crackle to the singer’s voice, but it is ultimately the beat of skin-against-wood that carries the song. Then there’s Sobanza Mimanisa, who root their song “Kiwembo?...
...famous. “Security Screenings” builds its songs on looped samples, delicately intermeshed beats, and electronic flourishes, dipping in and out of new modes with each bar. The result carries both the heft of hiphop and the prettiness of indie electronic. The effect of this fusion can be disorienting, but in a way disorientation is precisely the point: in the opening track, “The Letter: P,” Herren sets up a snatch of movie dialogue, only to undermine and distort the voices beyond recognition. It is a fitting introduction to his world...
...people who give life to them. America is uniquely socially mobile, ethnically mixed and racially tolerant. America is, in Ben Wattenberg's phrase, the first universal nation, indeed the only universal nation. Every street corner in New York City is a rainbow of humanity. The resulting interaction and fusion of cultures produce not just great cuisine and music and art but also great science and technology. Intel was cofounded by a Hungarian, Google by a Russian, Yahoo! by a Taiwanese. We are the world's masters of assimilation. Where else do you see cultures and races so at home with...
...people as I can. I think of myself as a singer-songwriter trying to build an audience for the music I really love.” Those who come to his performance in Sanders Theatre tonight will experience his innovative approach to performing and will witness first-hand this fusion of classical and folk...
...compelling and emotional design,' and he's sent that message internally," says J Mays, group vice president of design. "That's taken the shackles off and allows us to do product we probably wouldn't have been allowed to do five years ago." Among those bolder models: the 2006 Fusion sedan and the 2007 Edge crossover vehicle, due out later this year...