Word: musics
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...plays, has his own sound. He is also quite an underrated jazz master and musician that really deserves the honor.” Everett and a committee made up of several people from the Office for the Arts at Harvard and the Quincy Jones Professor of African-American Music Ingrid Monson chose Roy Haynes from the top of their list. “Roy Haynes is a living legend, a walking history of Jazz,” Everett says. Growing up in Boston near Long Wharf, Haynes “just about played with every major innovative artist since...
...idiosyncratic, internal rhythm—both figuratively and literally, as Steve Martini, the director’s brother, scored the film. In the opening scene, the quick cross-cuts between shots of live-action and shots of a housing development model match the beats and thumps of the music. The sounds, however, are only a part of the film’s internal pulse. Each character’s arc acts as a sonata to the film’s whole, and scenes are explosive not because of physical action but rather because of latent energy. “Lymelife?...
...normally be acceptable.However, as a work in isolation, “Perfect Fifths” is heavy on back-story and characters that are mentioned briefly but never seem to appear. These hanging details may be a source of annoyance for uninitiated readers: performer Barry Manilow’s music, for instance, has been a thread running through the series. McCafferty uses his songs, such as “Ready To Take A Chance Again” and “Can’t Smile Without You” as a metaphor for Jessica and Marcus?...
...Deeper than Rap” meets all current requirements for a decent hip-hop album, it still leaves much to be desired. One song in particular is exemplary of the fact that listeners will find what they expect to find, but nothing more. “Maybach Music 2” provides an accurate summary of what seems to be the only correct recipe, give or take an artist, for popular remixes and song sequels over the past two years: an Auto-Tuned chorus from T-Pain, lyrics about basking in gratuitous luxuries, and 16 bars from Weezy or Yeezy...
...does so in a setting that renders both those words devoid of any negative power. The interspersing of Rhys’ vocals with McCarthy’s near-garbled German elevates “Inaugural Trams” to the level of comic masterpiece.In a musical marketplace where attempts at indie rock humor that fall flat are a dime a dozen, Super Furry Animals truly stand out. They have two key strengths: an acute sense of the ridiculous and a wonderful sense of timing. Any band that can pull off the lines “I look like a loser...