Word: mandolin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wall, two Cubist still-lifes are displayed side by side, one by Braque, the other by Picasso. The second canvas is larger--perhaps only a coincidence, but it certainly symbolizes Picasso's overshadowing reputation. Completed within two years of each other and composed of the requisite mandolin, the combination of the two paintings effectively displays each artist's approach to spatial arrangement. Picasso stacks cubist shards on top of each other, conveying height, while Braque tends to deals more with depth, using receding images...
...recorded. In an interview with Time, Stipe described the new sound succinctly: "We wanted noise." Added R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills: "When you're in a band long enough, you want to try different things. On past albums we had been exploring acoustic instruments, trying to use the piano and mandolin, and we did it about all we wanted to do it. And you come back to the fact that playing loud electric-guitar music is about as fun as music...
...album's textured sound, which includes electric guitars, mandolin and violin along with the cello, helps the instrumentals of Broken Moon to be both complex and interesting without overpowering or drawing attention away from the singers. The catchy choruses and melody lines that characterize many of the songs, especially "Constant As The Night" and "I'll Set You Free," which features Susanna Hoffs (recently wedded singer of the Bangles) on back-up vocals, jeep the focus squarely on Lowen and Navarro. The imagery is masterful here as well; the rhyming lines, such as "I remember words that fell/Like coins into...
Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds make liberal use of the Hammond organ, trademark of the retro movement so popular among rock n' roll musicians today, as well as such instruments as the mandolin for a sound noticeably different from that of Guns N' Roses. The soulful, passionate rock n' roll of such tracks as "Shuffle It All" and "Come on Now Inside," the last track on the album, reveal Stradlin's move away from hard-driving bitterness and destruction that characterized his former band...
...personal essays. "Women and Blacks and Bensonhurst" meditates on Harrison's hometown, the New York suburb where Yusuf Hawkins, a Black sixteen-year-old, was shot to death in 1989 by a group of Italian-Americans who thought he was dating a local girl. Resisting what she calls the "mandolin and macaroni" depiction of Italian-American uraban life, she recalls grimly the casual racism and violence of life in Bensonhurst, and the stifling nature of community life there. "What you don't want known in Bensonhurst you don't do," she writes...