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Onstage, as they proved in their Sanders Theatre show November 22, the Flecktones are an amazingly dynamic and electrifying group: each musician has intense, complete control and amazing technical mastery of his instrument...
...ways to complement each other. They weave patterns, they build harmonies, they layer melodies, they solo, they return and play together, they stop and start and pop and jump and reach and it all works. Future Man is a subtle and exciting SynthAxe player (the SynthAxe Drumitar is an instrument that Future Man invented: it looks like a guitar, is played with one's fingers, and sounds like drums), and lays down serious rhythms to round...
...play hard and strong but its together. I miss the lyric stuff; we have a tendency to do more stuff with faster notes, or it's harder to play a beautiful melody on a banjo or a bass than it is on a piano or a vocal-type instrument like a saxaphone or a harmonica or a voice or a violin, so the music does get faster and more rhythmic...
...sometimes fickle Harvard Square crowd has so far reacted positively to the appliance-as-instrument mavens...
...trying to crush her, Stewart decides. Ada has only two loves in this bleak world: her nine-year-old daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) and her piano. After Stewart cavalierly sells the instrument to his neighbor Baines (Keitel), Ada strikes a bargain with Baines. Under the guise of giving him lessons, she will buy the piano back from him, one black key at a time, by allowing certain sexual favors. One key is hers if she raises her skirt; two keys to let him touch her bare arm; five; 10 . . . Ada can win what she needs by meting out what...