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...Anthony Honnet’s grainy bass pedals locked into Davy Honnet’s urgent pulse and dramatic two-handed organ riffs gained power from sampled sustains....
...As befits a trio of equal-partner improvisers, the American band Thumbscrew met somewhat by chance — bassist Michael Formanek was deputising in a band that included drummer Tomas Fujiwara and Mary Halvorson...
...Later, the five-person instrumental ensemble (conducted by Kamna Gupta) play with more continuity, as when arpeggios from a cello accompany bass clarinet in an interlude or during a drunken binge by the...
...Among the singers, Michael Mofidian’s resonant bass voice stood out as Herod....
...Her heavy, elastic bass underpins Khruangbin’s sound....
...Amaryllis finds Halvorson adding sharp edges to the resonance of brass, mirroring the scurry of vibes and surging over bass and drums....
...“Generational Bonds”, the album’s second track, begins with sparsely scattered piano and floaty Formanek double bass....
...Among the soloists, countertenor Iestyn Davies and tenor Guy Cutting were notable, Matthew Brook an effective bass, Rachel Redmond and Mary Bevan contrasting sopranos. ★★★★☆ Two days later the crowds poured...
...“Cimarroneando” highlights all of the band’s instruments by turn, reeling from harp, guitarlike cuatro and bandola to maracas, bass, cajón and Afro-Colombian tambora....
...I love the ceviche made with fagri, or sea bream, the sea urchin salad and sea bass carpaccio. The owner Maria is a fantastic host and they have a great wine list....
...Enjoy starters such as sea bass ceviche, citrus and cucumber (£28); with mains of octopus, baba ghanoush and lime (£38), and sirloin steak (10oz/300g), watercress and hazelnut (£72), served by an attentive...
...On Porthor beach — Whistling Sands — we cast hopeful bait at bass that had lost their appetites to the heat. They flopped about laughing in the lazy waves....
...I sit down next to her and order a Bloody Mary....
...Lyall eschews the bass for an array of analogue synthesisers, notably the Moog, that embody a tradition now almost as established as the ballad....
...This Marathon was no exception: a couple of premieres were prominent, the most up-to-the-minute being Ken Thomson’s Birds and Ambulances for double bass, which takes its title from the sounds of New York...
...The singer embodies both Mary’s saintly and sexual sides; one poem is a graphic recitation of all the penises she has known....
...Holiday’s version was lush with orchestral strings, but this version stands out for its delicate interplay of piano and sax and the unhurried bass counterpoint that sits underneath....
...Elsewhere, “Aug 6” moves from abstraction to sensuous lilt and “Edelin” from shards of sound to stinging Mary Halvorson guitar....
...It was founded in 1927 by cinema royalty — Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Mary Pickford and Louis B. Mayer — and hosted the first Academy Awards two years later....
...Mary Anne Marsh, a Democratic strategist at Dewey Square Group in Boston, was sceptical it would work....
...Alongside him, the designer Mary Li is tapping away in another language, Hydra, which is based on JavaScript (usually used to create web pages)....
...Then came cubes of sea bass spiced with mango and radish....
...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...
...It might sound worthy, but strong standalone compositions, tight interplay and the synchronic mesh of Mary Halvorson’s and Julian Lage’s guitars deliver the Uplift of the title....
...The raucous finale, a cover of Mary Lou Williams’s “Zoning Fungus”, had features for all, Hawkins’s warp-factor stride fracturing into abstract tinkles and Mitchener introducing each member of the band in...
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