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...moved from a guitar strapped to a stand to one slung over his back. He then swapped that for another that was a guitar trying to sound like an electric keyboard ?trying to sound like a space-age piano. Impressive? Yes. Compelling...
...album and revels in its own pure happiness. After shifting through three melodic themes, drummer Antonio Sanchez took a solo and built towards a frenetic climax where, with eyes closed, you would swear at least three or four percussionists were playing simultaneously. Keyboardist Lyle Mays adds sparse, brittle piano and in the middle of it all is Metheny...
...poor-man’s Pink Floyd. Metheny matched David Gilmour’s expansiveness, but lacked his legendary restraint. Moreover, the sound that the Group cultivates is so electronic that it removes any spirit from the music. Heavy drapes covered Mays’ grand piano to dampen any resonance, and Vu’s trumpet was so heavily processed that he might as well been playing an electronic keyboard. The sum total was largely lifeless music that was soothing, placating and soporific...
...Monsters, is stunning. It’s the best alternative-pop release of the year so far, and although this album is too left-field to make a big mark on the commercial charts, for those who discover it, it will surely remain a favorite for years. Simple, emotional piano ballads, with a depth of feeling that is palpable, seem to flow naturally from the pen of this 23-year-old British ex-chef. He’s like a more emotional version of David Gray and the whole zoo of Brit-pop balladeers...
Sitting at the baby grand piano in the Winthrop JCR, Dong directs the chorus of physics students surrounding him, making sure they not only hit the right notes but also pronounce equations accurately as they sing. As Heller shows the actors their dance moves for the section scene, she proposes an arm movement to represent the lyric about vectors and wonders aloud about what precisely a vector is. (“Vectors have magnitude and direction,” giggles one of the more physics-savvy chorus members...