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...theme with a personal voice that was strongest in the opening Nocturnal No 5, In the Grove, a technically demanding and subtly complex piano piece played with agility and understanding by its dedicatee, Laura...
...There were guest appearances from Laura Mvula and Ghanaian dancehall’s rising star Soundbwoy, but the scene-stealers were two other duets....
...Her heavy, elastic bass underpins Khruangbin’s sound....
...Vieux begins with a guitar vamp like a fanfare over a mournful mist of synthesiser from Mark Speer — and then the song’s reflections of exile and the diaspora unwind over Laura Lee Ochoa’s bass and Donald...
...The album ends with the trio unadorned and bass and drums following Hamasyan’s frequent twists and turns on the haunting theme of “Laura”. ★★★★☆ ‘StandArt’ is released by Nonesuch Records...
...A number of the gifted works will be shown in the gallery’s current exhibition, Acervo em Movimento (Collection in Motion), which opened with outdoor installations by Arjan Martins and Laura Belém....
...The style looks back at the bright resonances of the 1980s, a world of echoing drums, splashy synthesisers, slap bass and smoothly funky guitar parts....
...“I’ve chosen sea bass because it’s locally caught, but there’s a lot of fish I now wouldn’t want to eat: cod, probably — definitely not tuna of any description.” What about squid?...
...“On average, there have been three pandemics per century for the last five hundred years,” says Laura Spinney, author of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World....
...The breathy opening melody of “Oh, Louise”, and the way it then crashes into the song proper as Ben Varian’s drums and Ben Schwab’s bass lock into a rocking rhythm is a trick Carole King might have pulled...
...Additional reporting by Laura Noonan in Dublin...
...In McCarren Park, near the borough’s northernmost tip, more champagne was popped, spouting their contents high into the sky, as a man with a stadium speaker strapped to his chest like a bass drum blasted...
...In Miami, The Bass museum is making wellbeing an explicit goal of Art Outside – an exhibition designed as a socially distanced artistic panacea....
...of the favourites also found at Pimlico (Windrush Valley Goat Dairy, Lord Pesto, South Downs Venison, Exmoor Caviar, Chegworth Valley, Wild Country Organics), noteworthy stalls include: Longshore (sea bass...
...“Ah Leu Cha” opens with a brassy swagger over swinging walking bass, the twisty “Donna Lee” is rendered dissonant with clarinets, piccolos and flute and the film noir theme “Laura” is suffused with 1950s...
...But the pulse is carried by acoustic double bass and trumpeter Laura Jurd, with a fanfare flourish and hints of village dance....
...Instead, “Another Dimension” is a pretty fantastic hair metal song — it’s pared back, just Mary Timony’s guitar and voice, Betsy Wright’s bass and Laura Harris’s drums, so rather than hearing the excess...
...Lockheart is the main featured soloist, but John Parricelli’s raunchy guitar, subtle Liam Noble piano voicings and Laura Jurd’s articulate trumpet also stand out....
...The horns intertwined sinuously and harmonised long lines across bar lines and beats, Mark Lockheart’s tenor sax adding breath and air to the warm focus of Laura Jurd’s trumpet....
...The Mercury Prize-nominated Dinosaur closed the event with folk-tinged themes and loose-limbed grooves that peaked behind leader Laura Jurd’s lyrical, cleanly articulated trumpet....
...The bass player asked whether they should sing “Happy Birthday” to the tour manager, a suggestion Marling instantly quashed. “I’m the boss,” she made jokily clear....
...The gig is a romp, her four-piece band peeling through walking bass lines and chiming pedal steel as she vibrates with energy....
...Late on Tuesday, John Bass, the US ambassador to Turey, issued a statement....
...As on Youssef’s album Diwan of Beauty and Odd, Aaron Parks’s supple and sensitive piano was a delight and Ben Williams’s bass powerful in attack....
...Even the opening cover of the lovelorn ballad “Laura” was given a high-octane, mood-shifting revamp. The evening began at a canter....
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