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...Rather than singsong melodies, we hear discordant shrill shrieks. Instead of verdant curling leaves, stencil outlines that look charred like the remains of a forest fire....
...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....
...They removed all but the most minimal melodies from their tracks, content instead to let the rhythms do the work....
...“Women are conditioned to play nice and be likeable in order to succeed,” says Melody Wilding, executive coach and author of Trust Yourself: Stop Overthinking and Channel Your Emotions for Success at Work...
...Hollie Cook works in a genre judged to be the first black British musical form, a precursor to jungle, UK garage and grime....
...We head for Kinole, winding into thick jungle punctured by the bare trunks of Sterculia appendiculata trees, which are the colour of bleached bones....
...It feels like a beanstalk, twisting upwards into the jungles and banana plantations of the Sierra del Puril....
...“I think that Ed got a lil’ jungle fever,” Cardi notes with a smirk, before reorienting the song towards explicit sexual innuendo....
...The constant switching of textures — from male to female vocals (including Lily Allen and Cara Delevingne, puzzlingly), and from harsh, hollering sonics to mellifluous, pacific melodies — is fabulous....
...There are some familiar Americana reference points, such as the hoedown fiddle and banjo that jaunt away merrily in “Jungle Bird”....
...Directed by Lee Unkrich, 2017 Disney From The Jungle Book to Aladdin, past Disneyfications of “otherness” inspire little hope that the studio’s latest take on indigenous tradition will offer much cultural...
...Mahdyar Seized (Kowloon Records) Mahdyar Aghajani emerged in Tehran’s fledgling hip-hop scene in the 2000s, producing a groundbreaking album by Iranian rapper Hichkas, Asphalt Jungle....
...“Danza Del Mar” fuses porro, a music with pre-Columbian roots, with more modern cumbia; its easy sway and chanted vocal melody subverted by sci-fi bleeps and whistles and whooshes from the Theremin and a...
...The song has been sampled by Ice Cube (“Check Yo Self”), Blackstreet (“Fix”), Jungle Brothers (“Straight Out the Jungle”) and numerous others....
...“When we played the concerto, a lot of the indigenous people sang along to the melody, which they knew as it is used in their [religious] services....
...He ventures into tropical jungles to shoot nocturnal moths in their native habitats, arranging their photo-frozen bodies into colourful grids....
...He dreamt of one day getting a plum job in the “premier league” of music papers, such as NME, or the now defunct Melody Maker....
...Mars’s English-language lyrics are nonsensical (“Jingle jungle/Jingle jungle before you stumble,” runs a typical apercu) while the accumulation of musical effects tips into incoherence on the aimless finale...
...Tuesday My attitude towards taking showers has been heavily influenced by my decades of studying birds and living in the jungles of New Guinea....
...“Daily Jungle” was a pulsating soundscape, a hip-hop drum riff interweaving with chromatic piano chords, threads of melody and a grooving bass line....
...As an 11-year-old, however, and thanks to his older siblings, he got into jungle, 1990s UK breakbeat music in the raw. “I was, like, ‘Wow, drums with intelligence and expression!’”...
...Yet the film’s lyricism is unshakeable, descending on the characters like the rain in those mountains, which spears down dark and windswept, resembling the surreal rain in a Rousseau jungle painting....
...audiences like to work for their enlightenment; that straight-up storytelling isn’t always the straight route to a spectator’s heart; that in great cinema, as in great music, you don’t always “get” the melodies...
...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....
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