Word: sonics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Guitarist Lenny Kaye, a longtime member of the Patti Smith Group, accompanied Smith for most of the songs. Towards the set's end, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore came out with another acoustic guitar; the unplugged session produced had soulful harmony...
...years before World War II, Myrbeck worked at Harvard as a research associate in physics and communications engineering helping with the development of sonar and sonic submarine torpedoes...
...worry; all your childhood traumas have been erased, along with most of your personality." "His Immortal Logness," Pomme Fritz's last and shortest track, is in many ways the best, combining the sound of a German accordion playing what sounds like a distended techno polka with a richly layered sonic fabric. It is ironic, irreverent and immensely enjoyable...
...blues ideas and catalyzes them with muted electric guitars. He never makes his rock-blues fusion seem like a mere experiment or a lark; when he plays his fuzzy, rambling riffs, they seem natural and flowing. His trouble is a tendency for his songs to collapse into a sonic murk. But a few, such as New Machine, maintain a sense of musical momentum and connect emotionally...
...however, the best blues is still decades old. Last year Columbia re-released King of the Delta Blues Singers, a superb collection of songs by blues trailblazer Robert Johnson. The original recordings of these performances in the 1930s were crudely done, and for this release, some of the sonic flaws have been smoothed over. Johnson died in 1938, but his songs-such as 32-20 Blues and Come on in My Kitchen-still radiate a devilish charm and plucky inventiveness. Newcomers may have taken the blues, but Johnson reminds us that they haven't gone very...