Word: gospels
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...best tracks on G-Sides are still the unpredictable Albarn-influenced tracks, chiefly the zombie-gospel song “Ghost Train,” a weird trip through groovy electronics highlighted by Albarn’s urgent, woozy falsetto. Nakamura says they will be working on “another record sometime next year” if not earlier, depending on how the various band members can continue to balance their other projects from the odd situation of having a side project get larger than anything most of them had ever done before. Certainly there will be more lunacy...
...Kyoto treaty on global warming. Then he offended their sophisticated moral sensibilities with his plainspoken bluster about "the axis of evil." But last week, U.S. unilateralism struck an especially sensitive part of Europeans' anatomy: their pocket books. In a decision that seems directly to contradict the free-market gospel that is America's chief political export, Bush imposed protectionist tariffs of 8% to 30% on foreign steel...
...stage, but it’s pretty close. You could boil Bobby McFerrin down to trivia: collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma, Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock. Or cite numbers: a Billboard number one single, ten grammys, twenty million copies and seemingly infinite praise or genres: jazz, pop, classical, gospel. But even the sum total of these elements could not hope to sum up the anticipation or the result that was his performance at Sanders Theater...
...McFerrin appeared at a luncheon at the Institute of Politics and, as part of the OFA’s Learning from Performers series, worked with several campus arts groups that culminated in a performance on stage at Sanders. Working alone and in conjunction with groups from campus classical, dance, gospel and a cappella communities, McFerrin sung, vocalized and charmed his way into the hearts of his audience...
...into their individual songs, reaping the benefits of tutelage from a man whose musical interests most closely matched with their own.) Despite the obvious benefits gained by each group, McFerrin’s connection was most fully realized with the Brother’s and Sisters of Kuumba gospel singers. He disappeared for a time and later emerged wearing one of the brother’s stole, and appeared most moved by their music, with its unadulterated emotion and animated force...