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...Earlier in the evening, a tribute to the late trumpeter Jaimie Branch was shown on the hall’s video screen. Branch died in August and was scheduled to appear on tonight’s bill....
...The catchy melodies of Bongo Flava — a blend of Afrobeat, Swahili, English slang and American hip-hop — roll out of a radio, mixed with police sirens and the hollow sound of a train’s horn....
...Its verve is summed up by the self-styled “future classic” sound of Nia Archives’ “Consume Me”, with its jazzy vocal melody and accelerated beats, a well-marshalled collision of forces. ★★★★☆...
...Augé has therefore chosen to branch out on his own with a side-project. His stumbling over the word “I” comes as he discusses his debut solo album, Escapades....
...The Londoner, otherwise known as Oliver Godji, 23, opens up a new space in this fast-moving branch of British music....
...The menu has hardly changed since then and the restaurant has seen better days, but Deutscher and her friends enjoy coming to this particular branch, a mile or two from her family home, for teatime treats...
...This morning Drummond is at the other end of the scale, launching what he laughingly declares to be The Poundland Movement: a work of art that relies on materials bought in the central Nottingham branch...
...Mwapo started whistling: a sweet, piercing melody that rose and fell, with shades of Vivaldi’s “Spring”. From somewhere in the distance came a second whistler, the tune the same....
...Finding an irregularity through a melody is a much easier task.”...
...Yet “I never change the lyrics or the melody. I know I have no right. They’re part of what I am, but they’re not mine.”...
...The past couple of years have seen him branch out even further, touring and recording with a French violinist and a Jewish cellist, constantly “part of the reinventing process”, as he puts it....
...The haunting chords cohere into a melody: “Strange Fruit”, a song from the 1930s about murder in the South, about racism, mob hatred and white indifference....
...The melody of the actor’s speaking voice as Wladyslaw Szpilman in The Pianist was so textured, so full of hooks and middle eights, one felt he might hum the Chopin as well as he played it....
...But it is Hiromi’s pull-out-all-the-stops extravagance and easy-on-the ear melodies that are the main attraction....
...An entire evening of short French mélodies can be too much of a good thing, even when the sequence alternates between languid and light-hearted....
...In 1967, Hayes tried to branch out as a performer with a debut solo album Presenting Isaac Hayes, but it proved too jazzily languid to attract much attention....
...The Hauser & Wirth gallery in Piccadilly, a stately Lutyens building of the 1920s, used to be a branch of the Midland Bank until four years ago....
...Yet people seldom look for genius in football, instead treating the sport as a branch of the celebrity industry....
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