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Remember how gypsy music was supposedly making a comeback? Praised in the blogosphere after their 2006 debut, Beirut was lumped into the same Eastern Invasion category as Gogol Bordello, simply because both bands cited gypsy influences. However, Beirut eschews Bordello’s hedonism and registers as a slightly more ethnic Neutral Milk Hotel. “The Flying Club Cup,” Beirut’s second album, seeks inspiration further west of their old sonic haunts and finds it in France. The influence is evident, superficially in the pretentious Francophone chatter at the beginning of songs...
...needs to be very grounded, even in its surreality, because that allows the audience to dive into the crazy world."WORKING TOGETHEROnce the winning script has been chosen, another complex process begins: the composer comp.Prospective composers are given lyrics to a few songs and are asked to create accompanying music. The composers are told the instruments they have to work with and are also given a general idea of the kind of sound a particular song requires."Though the process does seem a little awkward, it helps us find some of the best composers on campus," says Michael T. Drake...
...gracefully this afternoon, she would do well to heed our stern command, articulated best in Ragalie’s Monday missive: “The slightest whiff of incompetence, the first blossom of injustice drives us back to the barricades.” This, President Faust, is the music of a people who will not be slaves again.Adam Goldenberg ’08 is a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House. His column appears on alternate Fridays...
...lyrics were inspired by a combination of ads from the back of early seventies design magazines, the cultural pages of local alternative lifestyle newspapers, and the Baccalieri children’s use of a Ouija board in season four of the “Sopranos.” The music is meant to follow the lyrics’ lead: hence the thunder sounds when Eleanor is talk-singing about thunderstorms on “Ex-Guru,” and the monkey and cow noises in “The Old Hag is Sleeping” to indicate the rooster...
...Massachusetts at Amherst. Harvard students have not yet received any letters. Last week the U.S. Senate introduced legislation that would require colleges to actively monitor and stop student use of university bandwidth to engage in illegal file-sharing. Steve Lin ’08, who described himself as a music enthusiast “on the fringes of the debate,” said he enjoyed the event but wished that the talk had been more pragmatic. “There’s a lot of discussion of how it is now,” Lin said, adding that...