Word: sonics
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...devices and florid ornamentation as complex scales, arpeggios, trills, gruppetti, and elegantly graduated crescendos. Bartoli is a virtuoso of fioritura. Emerging undetected out of silence, her voice creeps and swells into the warm apex of an exquisitely delivered cresendo—the audience melts under the radiance of her sonic glow...
...sumptuous blend of bird calls and prehistoric drones which convey a dawning sense of catastrophe. With the surging tornadoes of “Ozean und Brandung” and the metallic calm of “Boreas,” the album depicts an expansive sonic landscape with hidden stormy undercurrents unleashed every so often. For the most part, the album is melodic and melancholy, with heartbreaking lyrical outbursts like “Ein leichtes leises Sauseln...
...more concerned with controlling his chaos on record. In order to achieve the “epic” sound he and Abilities wanted on E and A (as opposed to the late-night pensiveness of past records), they emphasized crescendos and traded, so to speak, verbal length for sonic depth...
...Gone—and that’s saying a lot. Equal parts lilting lullaby and drunken caterwaul, Bows and Arrows sounds like the demented brainchild of a beer-spattered New York hustler with only his inflated sense of self-importance for company. But through each bout of sonic schizophrenia, the Walkmen’s intent and delivery shine clear: each arrow reaches its target with the precision of a Tolkien elf to create gorgeously ethereal, emotionally wringing music...
...good enough that his training unit at boot camp had him design a bulldog logo for their T shirts. Jocelyn knows he's running low on drawing supplies when she receives the rare letter home, asking for more colored pencils and notebooks. Jim also "draws a mean Sonic," another computer-game character that's a favorite of her first-graders. The kids know Jocelyn's son is in the war, and "they ask all the time if he's O.K.," she says. At Thanksgiving, the children brought her turkey drawings they had made for him. When she told them...