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...That devotion to the work of Italian violin- and lute-makers can be seen in classic Sonus Faber products such as 1993’s Guarneri Homage....
...That album married the lyrical world of the Ainu, an ethnic group from northern Japan, with the production tricks of dub reggae, the wobbling sonority of the tonkori, the Ainu lute, always to the fore....
...It opens with kologo, the characteristic two-stringed lute that sounds like an ngoni, played here and elsewhere by King Ayisoba himself....
...sympathetically a range of subversives: frenzied Haarlem lunatic “Malle Babbe” (c1640) — Courbet copied this; leathery, aged Pieter Verdonck (c1627), wielding a jawbone, looking for a fight; the Louvre’s jester “Lute...
...Essentially, this was a recital of lute songs by John Dowland, but staged with visual and audio extras, devised by director Netia Jones....
...Iranian spike fiddle (kamancheh) and Turkish lute (baglama) are a perfect fit: the two men played a single uninterrupted hour-long flow....
...He plays Edgin, a lute-playing chancer always equipped with a quip and flanked by the formidable Holga (Michelle Rodriguez), a potato-loving warrior who is the equal of any man and has the bushy armpits...
...The music has stopped, the musicians departed: the lutes, cittern, mandola and guitar are streaked by the marks of their recent touch....
...generation, explaining at one village that the sorrel we’re about to sample kept their grandmother going to 114, singing along at another as a grandly moustachioed pater familias in a bobble cap strums his lute-like...
...Liraz: Roya Glitterbeat On strings and on tar (the thin Persian lute), some of Iran’s finest musicians gathered anonymously in Istanbul to record with the Israeli singer Liraz, herself of Iranian-Sephardic...
...Rejecting the professor’s Venetian lute and Indian flutes in favour of an old mandolin, small trumpet and toy guitar found in a flea market, he balanced them precariously in an elongated pattern of curves...
...Angels strum stringless lutes. The limpid Virgin is ethereal. A single magpie surveys everything....
...But he also sent his son to Koran courses and give him a saz, the long-necked lute that is the backbone of Turkish folk music....
...The two guitars started — the minor chords of the Spanish guitar and the falling line of notes of the Portuguese guitar, rather like a double-stringed lute....
...Their track, “Left Foot Dance Of The Yi”, with fewer rock elements than most of their material, is driven by lutes and percussion, punctuated by enthusiastic whoops....
...Fabio Accurso, a classical lute player I met while taking in a gig by a French-Croatian drum and synthesiser duo in a downtown café and music venue called Knulp (all very Trieste), confided that “20 years...
...The lead instruments are now Derya Turkan’s kemence (a bowed Turkish lute) and Bjarte Eike’s baroque violin....
...The Latin Mass is repurposed with improvised lute, cello and muted trumpet, first on the baroque-tinted “We Believe” and then on “Agnus Dei”, an off-kilter waltz....
...In between, the American vocalist visits Brecht, Weill and musicals and creates lyrics from a letter the photographer Alfred Stieglitz wrote to his wife Georgia O’Keeffe; the reflective, lute-supported lyricism...
...The instrument is most easily described as the Chinese lute, held vertically on the player’s lap with the strings and frets facing outwards....
...Encounters with Native Americans renewed his interest in his own heritage, and when he returned to Hokkaido a cousin gave him a tonkori, a fretless five-stringed lute....
...Along the Acropolis walkway, an old man plays “Zorba’s Dance” on a lute. Twenty minutes away, in Exarchia, things look different. Three giant dumpsters are on fire in the middle of the road....
...Last year, it mulled over the future of many objects, ranging from 17th-century Italian and French lute sheet music to Sheffield football club’s archive....
...Reed’s “Rooftop Garden” is given a Graeco-Velvet Underground drone with lute-player George Xylouris, while Wyatt’s “Sea Song” acquires a low-frequency lurch with Dirty Three guitarist Mick Turner....
...sheets, the Albertina’s exquisitely refined brush and ink studies on blue paper, heightened with white, for two otherworldly, innocent faces: the adolescent Jesus of the “Doctors”, looking down, and the lute-playing...
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