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...scene mixes chromatic pitches with blobs of piano notes, another combines the shriveled sound of a rewinding tape recorder with the cacophony of urban traffic. Bellowing horns mark the beginning of Ward's descent into the afterlife. Ward's grandfather drags him around the room suffocating him with a trumpet. Though Ward manages to blow, the sound is like that of a dying animal. For the most part, however, these atonal compositions lurk beneath the viewer's attention...
...album also features two very sucessful and quite different instrumental tunes. The first of these, "Factory Concerto (Remix)," by The Pietasters is a brief, but potent piece. With its heavy drums and trumpet, the song's rhythmic intensity builds extremely effectively, creating a fun and somewhat eerie mood. The second instumental, "Hi-Ball," by Skavoovie and the Epitones provides a marked contrast. Slower in pace, with piano, heavy bass and lots of horns, it shows the influence of lounge and jazz styles...
...Buckshot LeFonque, Marsalis has concocted a veritable musical melting pot: a funk bassist, an electric guitarist, a latin percussionist, two keyboardists (one on Fender Rhodes, the other piano), a jazz horn section (trombone, trumpet and Marsalis on alto and tenor saxophones), a hip-hop drummer and a rap DJ, with intermittent help from a house rapper and three Caribbean dancehall rappers...
Merrill spent many years in Greece, and there's an overbrimming sunniness ("There at the highest trumpet blast/ Of Fahrenheit") in much of his poetry, particularly in his early books: with polychromatic warmth and humor he captures lovers, society ladies, fortune-tellers, merchants, children. In recent years he registered more moon than sun perhaps, in poems bathed in a blue, chilly and at times merciless light. Merrill wrote beautifully-painfully-about the daily diminutions of the body and the passing of friends, about aids, alcoholism and senility...
...Butt Trumpet is not for everyone. You don't have to be sexual paraphiliac or even a proctologist to enjoy it, although it might help. Butt Trumpet is definitely not the noise you want to have playing in the background during a telephone interview. Enjoy the music, but be forewarned--even Beavis and Butthead could have trouble listening to something this crude. Well, maybe...