Hints and tips:
...“Damon [Albarn] is almost addicted to making up new melodies. But he doesn’t love finishing — he loves generating,” says Ford....
...“That brought us a lot of press, and when [the British music publication] Melody Maker decided we were a happening band our fortunes changed tremendously, though it took a lot longer to convince the Americans...
...And I ended up reading Graham Greene’s memoirs about his teenage years in 1920s England. For those who don’t know Graham Greene, he was one of the most prominent novelists of his generation....
...a moment late as if Ruairidh Graham has dashed in and is still pulling off his coat....
...“Lady Be Good” came next, played unusually at a slinky medium pace, its melody stretched over the pulse and a Latin bridge for extra sensual effect....
...“The End of the Affair” (which shares its title with a Graham Greene novel) opens with an ambient electronic hum, but it turns out to be the curtainraiser for an unadorned acoustic guitar melody....
...Fellow founding members Graham Lewis (bass) and Robert Grey (drums) accompany him. Matthew Simms plays guitar, having replaced Bruce Gilbert after the latter’s departure in 2004....
...When he does so, he senses, like Coleridge, “the Invisible . . . like some sweet beguiling melody, so sweet, we know not we are listening to it”....
...It is always dangerous to compare a work of art with its antecedents, in this case Winston Graham’s novel and Alfred Hitchcock’s film. This opera has to stand on its own two feet....
...From $40 in the Ahiritola and Howrah districts of Kolkata; or Joss Graham in London, jossgraham.com The best book I’ve read in the past year is Gut by Giulia Enders....
...The Edinburgh trio — Kayus Bankole, Graham Hastings, Alloysious Massaquoi — are masters of tension and release....
...“Cwm Elan”, with a rippling harp line from Graham McElearney, recalls a stay with a friend’s family in the Welsh mountains....
...The song went on to become a jazz standard, a fixture in the repertoire of players such as Graham Bond....
...Then straight into work: I got a part in a Graham Greene play called Carving a Statue, with Sir Ralph Richardson. My character was deaf and dumb, then run over by a bus....
...When Melody Maker interviewed the British blues-rock musician Graham Bond about his album The Sound of 65, the sax and organ player didn’t bother toning down his usual brash certainty....
...Graham Nash This Path Tonight (Blue Castle Records) With its tidy melodies and polite singing, This Path Tonight reflects its maker’s reputation as one of the nicest men in rock....
...Hear them once, and they are instantly recognisable; these are proper tunes, melodies that echo in the mind’s chambers....
...larmertreefestival.co.uk Photographs: Will Wilkinson; Seb Schofield; Graham Tarrant...
...Coote’s far-reaching programme embraces Gounod, Saint-Saëns and popular Poulenc, and Graham Johnson is the perspicacious accompanist....
...Snatches of melody become discordant riffs or are looped asymmetrically like a sample gone awry....
...This mix of old and new will be evident too in Albarn’s music, which fuses melodies inflected by popular Victorian song with electronic sound — a style Buffini describes as “music hall meets techno”....
...Cols and Passes of the British Isles, by Graham Robb, Particular, RRP£20 Robb is best known for writing about France — biographies of Victor Hugo, Rimbaud and Balzac and histories including The Discovery...
...The allusive quality of the action is matched to voluptuous orchestration, endless arioso and ardent, sometimes aimless, melody....
...Shrugs, shakes, and pops punctuate the movement as jangle and pluck do the melodies....
...New song “City Hall” found him conjuring weird reverberating sounds and spidery melodies as the drummer set up a pummelling krautrock beat....
International Edition