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...As a child, “we were singing in harmony on the spot, picking up melodies really quickly. [Music was] just everywhere,” she tells me in the stark light of the next day....
...was not just a personal milestone; it was a significant leap forward for African music as a whole, and my generation of African artists in particular… It cemented the fact that our stories, rhythms and melodies...
...Over subsequent releases, the ska, rocksteady and dub elements in her music have been subsumed into the soulful melodies of lovers rock. It has become the primary focus of her reggae revivalism....
...This is Katherine Priddy’s debut album, but the Birmingham-based singer is following up a much-lauded EP (a few songs from which are included here) and support slots for folk giants from Richard Thompson...
...The melodies are memorable, the flavours warm. It’s calming and rich and rather beautiful. ★★★★☆ ‘Winter Is for Lovers’ is released on Anti-Records...
...Elkington is an expatriate Briton who found a place in the Chicago music scene, working with, among others, Richard Thompson....
...Then Thompson’s schoolmate launched into the guttural melody of “Peaches”, one of his signature hits with The Stranglers....
...Walbourne also serves as the guitarist of The Pretenders, and Thompson is the daughter of Richard and Linda Thompson, and between them they sound as if they live and breathe melody....
...Thompson shrugs....
...The duo even throw in an early cover of “Mr Tambourine Man”, Renbourn jingle-jangling away while Henderson improvises around the melody....
...After 15 years of struggle she could count a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award, a Rough Trade recording deal and worldwide touring (including supporting Richard Thompson) among her achievements....
...The woody pentatonic melodies are pleasant, the cross-stitch rhythms well-worked and the unison stabs formidable....
...For the most part, Cissokho’s kora is to the fore, weaving through the sweetly melancholy melodies of “Baayi Leen” and “Ndoli” with concentrated focus....
...especially, unsurprisingly, “Like Water”) an aquatic feeling, poised as much between swimming and drowning as between sleeping and waking, like an audition for the house band in the Bathysphere, Rupert Thompson...
...McShee is not a belter but a skilled navigator of melodies. This box collects all six albums from their heyday, bulked out with outtakes and music recorded at the same time by the individual members....
...Richard Thompson’s “We Sing Hallelujah” is for no apparent reason renamed “We’ll Sing Hallelujah” and blanched of its bleakness: to make a song that begins “a man is like a rusty wheel upon a rusty cart/...
...It’s an enigma, inside a mystery, wrapped in a gorgeous melody....
...One morning in London in 1963, Paul McCartney woke up with a melody almost fully formed in his head....
...This was Richard Thompson, clocking on for the Friday night shift in the Siam Tent....
..., but it is hard to escape the impression that the combination of sharp lyrics and golden-agey melodies here has been influenced by Tim Minchin’s game-raising work on Matilda....
...This time round, several from his new album Electric made probationary appearances: the guttural guitar crunch of “Stuck on the Treadmill”, “Sally B” with its spiky folk melody over a thump of bass, the...
...Two of the brightest talents of my generation, Rowan Atkinson (to this day, the funniest man I have ever seen on stage) and Emma Thompson, hardly ever enter the public domain via the press....
...Tube busker reaching for his mouth organ still prompts a protective waxing-over of the ears, the harmonica has been Sancho Panza to Dylan’s voice’s Don Quixote – a faithful companion, from the lilting melody...
...And “Pink Moon” saw Thompson and Warren swapping lines between them....
...Ask any world music fan what Senegal evokes and he is likely to respond with the haunting melodies of Baaba Maal, Youssou N’Dour’s rock’n’roll mbalax or the percolating rhythm of Cheikh Lo’s guitar solos...
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