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...Le Fleming, on bass guitar, delivered prowls of funk energy and the unfolding melody of “Repose” entered, closely harmonised by trumpet and alto sax....
...The opening melody “Fifteen Fifty-Three” evokes the balmy vibes of Fleetwood Mac’s 1968 classic “Albatross”....
...Yorke crooned a Radioheady vocal melody, high and plaintive. The music thrummed and twinkled, with distant intimations of thunder....
...This supercharged performance, featuring three members of the Funk Apostles band, was part of an extensive international tour promoting his latest album Operation Funk....
...Things start on a high, with the blunted funk groove of “Smoke”, where Monét duets with the New Orleans singer-songwriter Lucky Daye....
...It played out with demonic voicings slammed over broken-beat funk before three unison stabs cued the end of the set....
...Since then, the duo have honed their knack for catchy, clubby melodies that fuse disco, funk, soul and hip hop, building a major international following in the process....
...The 10th edition of jazz, funk and soul festival Love Supreme offered popular appeal and hidden depths, each strand balancing old and new....
...“Romanian Drinking Song” resembles a funky library-music gem with a driving beat and exuberantly flaring melodies. Pastiche is enlivened by inventive musicianship. “What Did You Mean By Love?”...
...But other inspirations make themselves heard too, from krautrock’s cosmic music to an idiosyncratic meeting between folk and funk on “Worlds Collide Mountains Form”....
...Then drummer Simpson brought the angular funk of “Octopus Pyjama” to a crowd-raising high....
...He was officially credited as lyricist in his records, although he wrote melodies too. “Songs come in many ways,” he said....
...Groove, melody and sophistication are united, a stereophonic balm for lyrical themes of aloneness. Billy Woods: Aethiopes Veteran underground rapper Billy Woods dazzles on Aethiopes....
...The evening opened with a bass riff sliced in half by a tricky skipped beat, soft-shoe funk tapping militarily underneath and Halvorson’s prowling line delivering hints of 1950s resonance....
...“DNA” had a metallic jingling sound, like the bars of a cage, while “King Kunta”’s funk was amplified to industrial volume....
...Splendidly loose-limbed boogie “Down” opens the album, based on a sample of late-’70s Chicago soul-funk outfit Universal Togetherness Band’s “More Than Enough”, before bouncing into the summery electronica...
...So does “Black Superhero”, a charismatic funk-rap number featuring a vocal super-grouping of Killer Mike, BJ the Chicago Kid and Big KRIT....
...Melodies got a rippling response, double bassist Dezron Douglas underpinned with a riff and rimshots came at angles while cymbals hissed....
...Laden with sharp rhythms, folkloric melodies, whistles, flutes and bells, the band sit firmly in Chicago’s avant-garde....
...Aguilera delivered sweetly catchy melodies with supreme attitude....
...They removed all but the most minimal melodies from their tracks, content instead to let the rhythms do the work....
...“Late Night Talking” is a sunny, bustling number with a 1980s sophisti-pop vocal melody....
...Between the sunny solo acoustic work of her debut and the desert blues of her recent soundtrack for Google Arts and Culture celebrating the heritage of Timbuktu, she has a weakness for relentless loud funk...
...They listened to the same funk and soul records growing up. And working with him, Susan learned not just to record music better, but to think about what it meant to have a signature sound....
...The melody of The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army” has become a folk chant in the UK, a tune for praising people’s names....
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