Word: mellows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forced to meet strangers--nearly everyone lives in a tract house and drives a car, or seems to--L.A.'s public spaces are voluntary, even happy ones: the beach, the amusement park, above all the mall. Or maybe it's just the climate--it's easier to be mellow under bright, clear, 80-degree skies than in the concrete swamp that is Manhattan in the summer...
What the Pharcyde did provide, however, was good background music for a mellow dance party. And although the Pharcyde got the crowd moving to the bass beats and rhymes despite the cool, rainy day, almost any hip-hop group could have made the crowd dance. The group never really formed a definitive sound; when the Pharcyde had little innovative or exciting talent to explore, the concert failed to satisfy the listener...
...whether by contemporary you meant the Barbizon painters of the mid-19th century, like Theodore Rousseau and Charles Daubigny, or the more recent vision of Monet and the Impressionists. Corot's career began in the 1820s, at a time when classical landscape--the ideal scene with temples, ruins and mellow boscage, populated by figures out of Ovid's Metamorphoses or Vergil's Georgics--was still very much a part of French art. Its greatest exponents, Nicolas Poussin and Lorrain, were French, and their work still cast a long shadow. But it existed alongside a newer appetite for natural vision...
...imagine the delicious feelings of initiation and surrender with which foreign artists once went to Italy. Each view in Rome, every corner of Naples or Latium, seemed impregnated with meaning--by the memory of artists who had painted them before, by the presence of Antiquity and by the mellow beauty of the light. But to see Nature so authoritatively fused with Culture could also be a misery for a newcomer, for how could you say something new about it? "This sun sheds a light that fills me with despair," Corot moaned in a letter to a friend on the first...
...heavy, rolling darkness of a storm cloud, but Wilson isn't given to flashy lightning vocals. She finds emotion in restraint -- her voice murmurs low like distant thunder, or strikes a brief, bright note, like sunlight after rain. New Moon Daughter stands as Wilson?s most emotionally rewarding album, a mellow but challenging crescendo of themes from her past work...