Word: keyboards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Natural Calamity's melodic bass line, vocals and drum accompaniment dominate its sound. Secondary are its guitar and keyboard effects. Together, the album's layered music makes for a laid back, chill sound. Along with Heasley, guest musicians Kyoici Shiino on drums, K-U-D-O on electronics, Neville Marphie for percussion and Genichi Tamura on petal steel guitar join Natural Calamity. The songs for the album were mixed in various studios, and a couple forms of two of the songs appear on Peach Head...
Hamelin is a throwback to golden age piano virtuosos--wizards like Ignaz Friedman, Josef Hofmann and Leopold Godowsky--whose keyboard pyrotechnics lit up concert halls during the first 40 years of this century. He is fascinated by the piano's expressive range, its ability to produce almost orchestral varieties of sounds and colors, seemingly bound only by the performer's own limitations. These varied works--by Rachmaninoff, Alkan, Busoni, Godowsky and others--are wickedly difficult, yet Hamelin plays them, often at dazzling speeds, with color, power, a long line and unfailing elan. He also performs three of his own witty...
...masse. You could take her ice-skating or to a cooking class. Or give her something, anything, that is truly particular to her. Yet the only thing that most people think of doing is taking the person out to dinner and buying them drinks. Like the Qwerty keyboard, it does its job, even though the results may be less than they could have been. The simplest, clearest path of least resistance is the obvious choice; lack of mass motivation to learn Dvorak or plan a more interesting celebration takes care of the rest...
...paper was one of those that had merely met the expectations, and its good grade gave me no delight. Right now I'm thinking about going to see what that Dvorak keyboard is all about--and maybe checking out the circus...
Tori groupies will abound in Lowell when the seductive daughter of a Baptist preacher takes the stage, Wednesday night at Tsongas Arena. Tori Amos's soulful crooning and pounding of the keyboard makes for a cathartic, emotionally wrenching experience worthy of the $27.50 ticket price. Call 931-2000 for more information...