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...Laden with sharp rhythms, folkloric melodies, whistles, flutes and bells, the band sit firmly in Chicago’s avant-garde....
...Reggae was “kind of monotonous” and “black music being prostituted”, Melody Maker quoted Deep Purple and the Edgar Broughton Band as saying....
...As Hornsby recalls, Lee told him: “Yeah, no . . . you know I like melody, Bruce.”...
...This rhythmic masterpiece, loaned for the first time ever by London’s Wallace Collection, is the exhibition’s climax, hanging splendid and alone in the final gallery....
...Some melodies are just in the ether. “Ike’s Rap II” resurfaced again, with Hayes’s vocal haunting the background, in 2015 on the Canadian Alessia Cara’s debut single, “Here”....
...I’m talking to the singer and songwriter at the Wallace Collection, the genteel gallery of Old Masters in central London, and I mention that there’s a portrait by Rembrandt of his son in the collection....
...As one character asks, after listening to the melody of a “lovely voice” that “sounded …as if its owner were the patron saint of their neighbourhoods”: “Is voice something you can own?”...
...Editorial expansiveness also allows the reader to revisit and savour the effect of poems such as Kinsella’s masterly “Tao and Unfitness at Inistiogue on the River Nore” – a nod to Wallace Stevens as well...
...It is a tissue of interwoven melodies derived from a single line of chant by Hildegard of Bingen, projected into the resonant spaces of the Minster....
...Untrue (Hyperdub) is a nocturnal, wintry record, full of ghostly vocals and introspected melodies – a soundtrack to a city that never wakes. 5....
...The very extended encore – “I’ll stop when the heads stop nodding” – had ghosts of Miles Davis melodies, trumpeter Wallace Roney sitting in, bass and audience put through the mill....
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