Hints and tips:
...A long snaky conga formed near the front during the peppy pop-funk of “Treat People with Kindness”....
...And if strawberries are in season, I’ll go to Harry’s Berries stall – they’re not cheap, but they’re tasty....
...Though Grupo Fantasma, the Latin funk band in which he played guitar, were nominated for a Grammy award in 2009 and won one in 2011, he wasn’t exactly living the high life....
...His songs blended psychedelic funk, jazz, soul and rock, in a fashion at once mazy and mellow....
...The production was relatively unfussy: no choreographed dance troupes or multiple costume changes; Styles, accompanied by a slick backing band, tore through a set of slow-burning funk, Transatlantic soft...
...“Music for a Sushi Restaurant” is the liveliest of the 13 tracks, an insistent funk number with an exuberant horn section refrain and lascivious lyrics....
...“DNA” had a metallic jingling sound, like the bars of a cage, while “King Kunta”’s funk was amplified to industrial volume....
...Younger ones swapped fantasies of Harry Styles making an unscheduled visit....
...Music is a major passion, and his latest collection “Dark Haze” imagined a musician’s stage wardrobe inspired by the appeal of the guitar, and “black rock, punk and funk”....
...Men are shaving less and Gillette has lost ground to the likes of Dollar Shave Club and Harry’s....
...“Put Me Thru” offered three minutes of retro soul, while Paak peaked with “Come Down”, its punchy, sizzling bassline reminiscent of Gorillaz’ “Dirty Harry” by way of James Brown....
...As a teenager in the 1980s, Gilles Peterson recorded a funk and soul radio show on to a cassette in his garden shed and broadcasted it from a transmitter up a tree on Epsom Downs....
...Harry Belafonte recorded a calypso album; so, more surprisingly, did Robert Mitchum....
...His new album maps themes of dislocation, belonging and race onto an ambitious, meandering series of songs that range from classic funk (“EVP”, with a guest appearance from Debbie Harry) to a blissful pop...
...His silky tenor and falsetto are African-inflected, even when French and Spanish are in the mix, and the set-piece lines of Afro-Cuban bass gained hints of hi-life or funk....
...The veteran Ghanaian musician Alfred Bannerman knitted the whole concoction together with high funk guitar. In these hands, Afrobeat sounded like the future, not the past. larmertreefestival.co.uk...
...The music is indebted to 1980s post-punk, all spindly guitars and stuttering funk, but Campbell brings it to life with verve and commitment....
...Strong rhythms such as the churning drums in “Idiot Mantra” or the jittery art-funk of “Am Gone” keep our attention while Harry Burgess’s vocals are a high-wire act, a swooping and richly enunciated form...
...But a fightback for flavour is under way – and its scientific champion is Harry Klee, horticulture professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville....
...The industry has been in a funk, with US software sales falling year-on-year by double-digit percentages for 11 straight months....
...The announcement is a big step for Abu Dhabi in shaking off the economic funk that has infected the city amid the global financial crisis – a malaise so cutting that even the government’s strategy investment...
...It means that you’ll have, say, 35 records from Lithuania next to a dozen music hall records by Harry Lauder....
...Many of the other developing markets initially embroiled in the funk have been quieter of late. Investors appear more prepared than before to distinguish and discriminate....
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