Word: soundly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That's probably better for you. I guess I just have one more question, but it's kind of a cheesy one. Do you think there are three words that describe your sound, if you really had to narrow it down...
...reciprocated. Notoriously irritated by continuously being pigeonholed as "electronica," Death in Vegas has largely given up reading any of its own press. This is probably just as well, since the band's scintillating performance at the Paradise proved the last thing it needs is being told what to sound like...
...from their recent Contino Sessions album, several of the sample-centric tracks of Dead Elvis were spruced up by live arrangements. The grinding, nasty groove of "Dirt" was transformed into an almost soulful rave-up with horns, and as with the other up-tempo selections, the band came off sounding like Booker T. and the MGs in the year 2100. The highlight of the evening was "Flying," off the Contino Sessions. Less psychedelic and more rhythmically insistent than the album version, the densely layered music spiraled seemingly endlessly into a gorgeous wall of sound...
...somewhat trying to a North American audience, used as we are to seeing the glossy celluloid images associated with high production values. Here we get grainy and bleached images. Similarly, no music accompanies the narrative to underscore the tension and wrenching moments; all we are given is the sound of gravelly footsteps, running water and the other minutiae. The mundane sounds pervade Rosetta's microcosm, because, being unemployed, that's all she has. Because the presentation is frank and honest, and devoid of artifice, we realize that this is a natural, unromanticized depiction of life experienced by society's "other...
...bored four-year-old running around, banging pots on a rainy day. That perception hardly does justice to the performance. Sure, it doesn't take a genius to enjoy the show. It takes, rather, a genius--or in this case two geniuses--to turn the simplicity of sound and dance into a spectacular evening of entertainment. In 1991, creators Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas realized the simple joy that a four-year-old can take in banging pots, and brought that happiness to a universal audience. Everyone loves rhythm and motion, though they may not readily admit...