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...songs to Chinese folk favorites and American jazz standards. The group's composer and arranger, Liang Jianfeng, says their sound "combines the best elements of Chinese and Western music." In practice, that means retaining just enough Chinese flavor to create an exotic sheen without alienating listeners unaccustomed to the moan of the erhu (a two-stringed fiddle) or the plink of the pipa. The finished product is about as Chinese as Enya is Celtic-but their culture-shockproof tunes travel well across borders and in elevators. The group's version of the jazz classic Take Five is nowadays piped over...
...these elements to find distinct directions for his sad-sack male songwriter’s backing band to explore. The result is meticulously beautiful. But over each unique instrumental backdrop comes that same mono-stylistic voice that Vanderslice can’t seem to outgrow. His intensely sincere, melodic moan pushes already overwrought lyrics to a point that will have many a cooler-than-thou music snob reaching for the volume knob. But truth is, Vanderslice cannot be faulted for over-dramatizing his material. With topics that include ground-level narratives from the War on Terror, the convoluted nightmare plot...
...ponderous nature of Mt. Eerie is absent on Live in Japan, a sober collection of new songs culled from the bare-bones shows Elvrum performed before retiring the Microphones’ moniker for good. All the ingredients of vintage Microphones are present: droopy guitars, moan-singing and months spent in isolation. But the magic of the spacious soundscapes that Elvrum dreams up so well in basement studios is missing, save standout tracks like the break-up tune “The Blow, Pt. 2” and “Universe Conclusion,” a bone-shaking campfire call...
...this platform seemed to elude Lurie at Thursday’s presidential debate. “I don’t have vision or ideas, but I have balls,” he told a packed audience in Science Center A. “I will bitch and moan on your behalf...
...Philharmonic and its subscribers, the essential thing was to get the acoustics right, which is a task of near impossible complexity. What kind of space can do justice, say, to the plunks and skittering knock-knocks in Lou Harrison's Concerto in Slendro and also to the sustained, exalted moan of Mahler's Fifth Symphony? Can the huff and puff of the Carmina Burana sound any good in the same space where soprano Dawn Upshaw unfolds that lucid, liquid C? The curving interior of the Disney Hall was developed by Gehry with Yasuhisa Toyota, a partner in the Tokyo firm...