Word: musicianship
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...pounding chords of “The New Year” answered all questions, and the combination made perfect sense. The first song merely set up the captivating “New Year” in a brilliant juxtaposition that prefaced a night of masterful song arrangement and exquisite musicianship. Combining highly recognizable material from their Transatlanticism album with lesser known tales of woe like “Lowell, MA,” “Photobooth,” and “Amputations,” Death Cab gathered generously from its ten-record cornucopia and projected their...
...don’t really buy the authenticity of our musicianship and our playing,” Corrigan said. “We always see there’s a lot of room to grow and improve but people keep showing up. And then to find out that there are 15 different countries that are going to be represented at the show on Saturday? Never...
...heart of Charles? vocal achievement: ?Sinatra, and Bing Crosby before him, had been a master of words. Ray Charles is a master of sounds. His records disclose an extraordinary assortment of slurs, glides, turns, shrieks, wails, breaks, shouts, screams and hollers, all wonderfully controlled, disciplined by inspired musicianship, and harnessed to ingenious subtleties of harmony, dynamics and rhythm... It is either the singing of a man whose vocabulary is inadequate to express what is in his heart and mind or of one whose feelings are too intense for satisfactory verbal or conventionally melodic articulation. He can?t tell...
...would. The feel of the CD is great. The genres range from jazz and acoustic rock to hip hop and indie rock, but the whole CD has a real coherent feel to it because the emphasis wasn’t on a genre, but on the quality of the musicianship and music.” The album was mixed and mastered by Mantis Evar, who is, as Zaccagnino puts it, well known for his impressive proficiency “at mastering, producing, mixing, and really everything...
...created illegally, the debate surrounding intellectual property laws continues to wage on, as does the strong movement to find a proper balance between the rights of creator and audience. As a hugely active creator of culture, Gab is very interested in the ramifications of these policies for creativity and musicianship. When told of the voluntary Creative Commons licensing scheme (creativecommons.org) designed by Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig (who spoke at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute earlier this year on the subject) Gab said it sounds like a “dope idea.” This system gives artists...