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...By contrast, the raven Blacky rasps and wheezes, emitting guttural sounds that hurt like fingernails on a blackboard (the stentorian Elena Vassilieva, wife of the composer)....
...But the music, produced by James Ford of Simian Mobile Disco, is animated....
...Equally significant, the replacement of Oren Marshall’s tuba by James Allsopp’s baritone sax and bass clarinet has changed the tonal palette....
...Organist James Taylor struts his stuff over New Orleans boogie on “Hypothetical”. And the fanfare brass that introduces “Without You”, featuring R&B singer YVA soon hints at a Soca strut....
...Crosby left us with a rasp of bitterness, Neil Young’s anthemic “Ohio”. If late-septuagenarian protest rock is to become a thing, this was an inspiring masterclass. ★★★★★ davidcrosby.com...
...One essayed a rock rasp over shuddering bass; another a more soul-man style voice over what might have been the billionth use (roughly) of a sample from James Brown’s “Funky Drummer”....
...You can tell from his chain-smoker’s rasp, his steely self-possession. You can tell by the fact he wears his sunglasses at night....
...Briton James Richards’ black-and-white “Rosebud” dreamily examines image-making via YouTube clips, film archives, his own fugitive zoom-ins – a strobe-lit parakeet, scratched-out Japanese erotic prints,...
...“When the stomach is yelling, you can’t work,” rasps Szafran himself, when we talk earlier that afternoon in the dining room of a nearby hotel....
...Oscar Wilde and his lover Bosie are in London’s West End in The Judas Kiss , while at the National Theatre James Graham’s This House bustles with 1970s politicians....
...“I need an espresso,” he growls, his trademark East Rand rasp undiluted by decades travelling the world. “And a cognac.”...
...I am careering down a gulley of solid ice, my head poised above the fleeting blue surface as the steel runners of my toboggan shear and rasp beneath me....
...And for 27 years Tristan has been the exclusive Met property of another great conductor, James Levine....
...They wonder if the incident has been reported to the coastguard, and listen above the waves for the faraway rasp of a helicopter. And wait and wait....
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