Word: instrumentalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mariner's compass was used by the Chinese well before 1050, the year the instrument made its appearance in European ships in Mediterranean waters...
...Paris and Gigi. In it she reminisces a bit, shows pictures from the family album, sings numbers identified with her mother that she would never touch before (like The Trolley Song from Meet Me in St. Louis) and demonstrates that her voice, if not the exuberant, no-holds-barred instrument it once was, can still curl stylishly around numbers like I Got Rhythm and Baubles, Bangles and Beads. A little nostalgia, a little Broadway pizazz, a little coming to terms with middle age (she's even got new lyrics for I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore)--what better...
...Essentials features Luke Fischbeck '00 on guitar and vocals; Brendan Greaves '00 on bass, harmonica, banjo and vocals; Pablo Colapinto '00 on keyboards and a G3 laptop; Mike Colin on drums and hngoura (a Senegalese hand percussion instrument); and Gary Johnson doing live video mixing. Oh, and Patrick Swayze on vocals. Or so they claim...
...Musically, Quasi take seemingly mundane pop influences (The Beatles, The Carpenters, The Monkees) and feed them through a blender of late '90s noise. Without a guitar on the majority of their songs, Quasi focus on the interplay between the roxichord (Coomes' organ-like instrument) and drums. What they lack in musical accompaniment, they make up for with anger and volume. During "Our Happiness is Guaranteed," Janet Weiss pounds out drumbeats that come close to knocking her off her own stoo, while Coomes climbs on top of his keyboard and takes a few moments to beat it senseless in a furious...
...next to the house, so if I woke up and had a half-decent day, I would turn on the tape recorder and play for a few minutes. I was too fatigued to do more. Then something started to click with the mike placement, the new action of the instrument--I could play so soft--and the internal dynamics of the melodies of the songs. It was one of those little miracles that you have to be ready for, though part of it was that I just didn't have the energy to be clever. Also, I'd just stopped...