Word: songfulness
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DIED. Bobby Rosengarden, 82, session drummer for artists from Duke Ellington to Harry Belafonte who became better known in the late 1960s as the musical smart aleck and bandleader on The Dick Cavett Show; in Sarasota, Fla. Rosengarden perfected the art of the witty, and sometimes risqué, "walk-on" song to accompany guests. Of Rosengarden's choice of tunes--Hello Dolly for Salvador Dalí, There'll Be Some Changes Made for transsexual Jan Morris--Cavett later said, "Luckily, the censor was dumber about music than...
...Baby I miss you now.” “Singer Sing,” the first track of the album, is deceptively good, featuring Britta Phillips’ throaty, intriguing vocals over a funky background and some nice guitar work by Wareham. However, the second song, “Words You Used To Say,” is marked by a distracting, spacey-sounding arpeggiated synthesizer harmony, which completely obliterates any other potentially interesting facet of the track. The following two songs–“Wait for Me” and “You Turned...
...there are even some moments that foreshadow a move toward the darkness of industrial music. “The Stars,” “Overture,” and “Bluebells” are the album’s most intriguing tracks, and the song “The Magic Position” is enjoyable enough if you go into it with the right mindset—that is, no mindset. There are a couple other tracks worth listening to, but expect to pick out a few favorite tracks and delete the rest from your hard...
...might already have Asobi Seksu—Japanese for “playful sex”—in your iTunes library, since Apple recently offered the song “Thursday” as a free download. The NYC band combines poppish rock and a moody pan-Asian sound with the voice of potentially attractive singer/keyboardist Yuki Chikudate, to produce a sugary ambient effect. The music video for “Goodbye” finds its influences not in the sexiness of the band’s name but rather in its Japanese background. The aesthetic scheme...
...Billie Holliday. The sentiment defines “Love and Broken Hearts,” an attack on hip-hop culture from trumpeter Wynton Marsalis’ new release, “From the Plantation to the Penitentiary.” Sanon grieves the decline of the love song and the rise of “modern day minstrels” with “songless tunes,” who emphasize sex over romance. It isn’t the first time Marsalis has used music to foster social discussion. “Blood on the Fields...