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...Here complex webs of rhythm firmed into a driving rocky pulse and hardcore funk fractured into out-of-tempo swirls....
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...this makes it sound like an earnest cinephile exercise, it’s anything but — as proved by the opening credits, in which heroine Delia (Cortellesi herself) walks through the streets of 1946 Rome to the punk-funk...
...As the 2010s progressed, their music — influenced by elaborate pomp-rock and polished 1980s funk — increasingly took the smooth with the rough. Hyperdrama is their fourth album....
...The tension between rawness and artifice is perfected on “Big Time Nothing”, a funk-rocker that careens along with expert handling. The album falters with portentous end-times dirge “The Power’s Out”....
...Houston trio Khruangbin — aka guitarist Mark Speer, bassist Laura Lee and drummer DJ Johnson — originally bonded over a mash-up of global influences: Iranian rock, Jamaican dub and Thai funk, as well as...
...This supercharged performance, featuring three members of the Funk Apostles band, was part of an extensive international tour promoting his latest album Operation Funk....
...iconoclastic contribution to popular music and, aside from the Sex Pistols, deserves his place in the rock pantheon for the powerful wall of sound created by Public Image Ltd with its infusion of reggae, rock, funk...
...The deep context behind several of the impediments to growth is a strange hybrid of psychological and political factors — a sort of psycho-political funk....
...The fly in the test tube is that bolt-on acquisitions, however interesting, will not get Roche out of its funk. The group’s organic drug pipeline has disappointed investors, with high-profile failures....
...As the evening unfolded, the ballad “Élan Vital” delivered core harmonic movements and an anthemic theme, while the rhythmic cross-stitch of “Swerve” toyed with the tensions of avant-funk....
...“Colours Fly” was the first of the unreleased numbers, with Yorke playing a funk bassline and Greenwood channelling Turkish or Middle Eastern psychedelic rock....
...But he is in a creative funk, and there are already official doubts about the suitability of a libretto about an ageing queen infatuated with a young lord....
...As she slinked through recent single “CooCool”, it wasn’t just the fact that she had donned a raspberry beret and was cooing like a dove that put you in mind of Prince’s sex-funk (although, obviously, those...
...It has hip-hop chants, unpredictable chord progressions, zany keyboard runs, choral fanfares and jazz-funk slap bass....
...The travelling involves a fusion sound designed to get feet moving with funk, Latin music, Afrobeat, dub reggae and hip-hop....
...An iridescent spree” — stand on bass-driven funk conjured by producer Don Was....
...The songs shift the dial to a more funk-and-soul-based sound. The title track nods to the dance floor manifestos of Funkadelic, while “Pearls” echoes Chaka Khan’s majestic vocal attack....
...In our age of dispirited democracies and general global funk, where better to seek inspiration on ingenuity and the human spirit than Taiwan?...
...It could be Turkish music from the ’60s and ’70s, funk from Mozambique, soul from east Africa and Guadeloupe; old Italian film scores.”...
...That meant modern Soho funk/disco with old-school Italian classics: “La Dolce Vita music that transports people to sunny Italian piazzas,” says Gelardin....
...If the music is leaning towards funk, then it definitely calls for an electric bass. But for traditional jazz I love the roundness of the tone of an upright bass and the woodiness, for sure.”...
...Cohen’s last album, Naked Truth, celebrated the intimacy of kinship and friends, Rawicz’s outgoing Chroma combined jazz, world music and funk....
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