Word: trill
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...styles is made conveniently clear on O'Connor's new double album, She Who Dwells ..., which features a spectacular cover of Do Right Woman. Where Franklin started the song in pieces and pulled herself toward an emotional victory, O'Connor opens Do Right Woman deceptively whole. She does not trill or soar; she just sings notes of remarkable clarity and intensity. But as the Dan Penn/Chip Moman classic unfolds, O'Connor's fidelity to each note becomes a form of quiet desperation. Like her old buddy Frank Sinatra, she makes songs great without appearing...
...styles is made conveniently clear on O'Connor's new double album, She Who Dwells ..., which features a spectacular cover of Do Right Woman. Where Franklin started the song in pieces and pulled herself toward an emotional victory, O'Connor opens Do Right Woman deceptively whole. She does not trill or soar; she just sings notes of remarkable clarity and intensity. But as the Dan Penn/Chip Moman classic unfolds, O'Connor's fidelity to each note becomes a form of quiet desperation. Like her old buddy Frank Sinatra, she makes songs great without appearing to try. The second disc...
...songs are packed. But they offer more than filler—each guitar stroke, violin pluck, barely audible incantation and keyboard trill is crucial and executed with style, evoking the album’s wistful but youthful tone...
...Through the fishing line my fingers savored the quivering trill of the lure's spinner - which meant its hooks had not yet picked up any of the weeds that grow almost everywhere in the shallow lake...
...magical realism. In Schnittke's piece, the first movement begins deceptively happily before spiralling into intermittent dissonance. Pressler created a haunting echo under the strings, an ever-bubbling undercurrent of the dissonance to come, as each performer surprised the audience as he punctured the melody with a seemingly random trill...