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...form or feel. There is a degree of self-indulgence on many of these songs that may appeal to the hard-core Built to Spill fan, but will undoubtedly fall upon the deaf ears of the uninterested and uninitiated. In particular, the repetitive lyrics and limited chordal palette??Martsch’s familiar predilection for minor key resolutions is rampant here—exacerbating the mindlessness induced by long, formless instrumental breaks. The album does begin with a solid first track, “Goin’ Against Your Mind,” which juxtaposes a pulsing bassline...
...lend them exotic “flavor,” Darweesh’s use of Western musical tropes is a true synthesis of styles. The violin and cello parts were not merely ornamental to their Arabic counterparts, but rather integral components of Darweesh’s sonic palette??Darweesh did not bridge the gap between Western and Arabic music, so much as he recombined elements from both traditions into a bold new aesthetic...
...encased in the plot, which is simple enough. Rather than turn this into high-tension melodrama, complete with mad car chases and imprisonments, Antonioni pares everything down to the most minimalist possible point. The delicious assortment of visual simplicity needs no additional thrills or frills. From his beautiful palette??all blues, beiges and whites—to his painstakingly executed shots—whether of flies buzzing on the wall or the famous seven-minute final pan—Antonioni’s skillful hand is evident throughout, without becoming oppressive or pedantic.This movie is not meant...
Catherine Murphy’s “Cardboard Palette?? (2001), which seems utterly different from the others, corresponds indirectly in that it is a trompe l’oeil residue of the painting process. This enlargement of the artist’s palette, with its convincing globs of paint and glistening highlights, morphs into a created landscape of its own equipped with ridges, valleys and plains...
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