Word: melodye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Electro pop. Spicy trip-hop. Techno funk. This Is Normal is anything but. Therein lies the beauty of GusGus' artistry. For anyone who's bored of the mainstream and who cringes at the thought of another lousy remix, it's refreshing to hear such unconventional fusions of sounds. Trance-like...
Perhaps a Paganini Caprice is the wrong analogy, though. Paganini's work was all style, full of flashy ornamentations but with little in the way of an enchanting melody to anchor his flights of dexterity. What makes Ruiz's production so successful is that for all its high-speed antics...
THE SOUNDS: "I describe it as acoustic sample pop. Basically, I listen to a lot of stuff coming out of Japan: Cornelius, Minekawa Takako, Buffalo Daughter, Fantastic Plastic Machine. I like the idea of sound montage that they employ and so I am trying to reconcile this with my American...
For a finale, Forger offered Concert Variations on the Austrian Hymn, by John Knowles Paine. Paine, whose music hall delights in its eponymity, was Professor of Music at Harvard and the author of some flamboyant organ music, including a double fugue on "America." In the piece heard Thursday, Forger delivered...
The name of the concert "In Close Corners" was certainly justified--the Adams Pool Theater does have a rather intimate ambiance. The dancers managed to take this all in stride, though, using the aisles and risers with remarkable grace. The music was loud and well suited to the complicated hip...