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...Dmitry Chesnov doubles Gintovt on guitars, Dasha Avramova sweetens some of the songs with violin and Timur Mizinov’s multi-tracked trumpets sound sometimes like a Balkan wedding, sometimes like a military...
...René Barbera as Adelberto offered radiant singing and beautifully crafted melodies in which each Italian syllable was audible....
...There was polyrhythmic clapping on wedding songs (“If you let us in,” promised the groom’s family, “we will make you leader of all the Arab tribes”), then a Galilean lullaby shifting in and out of darkness...
...The melodies flow throughout....
...“Smoke is known as a lyricist and melody man,” Williams says of Robinson. “Norman was smacking you across the face with that raw energy, the funky tracks....
...Like the patchwork coat, Priscilla’s wedding dress was a facsimile of the original. Other DeJonge costumes were interpretations....
...The melody passes between Kimho Ip’s hammered dulcimer and Wickham’s violin, Blakey’s pipes an echo behind....
...The party continues on “Harja”, with keyboard trills vamping ahead of fast microtonal melodies in scuzzed-up tones that combine with frenetic darbuka to deliver unbridled euphoria....
...Haunted by snatches of melody from the miners, he starts to write, conjuring the play up before us on an empty stage....
...There must be a lot of honeymooners, which makes sense as people who’ve just planned a wedding probably jump at the chance to outsource planning a holiday....
...Before U-Roy, toasting was what you did at breakfast or weddings. After the Jamaican reggae star became famous for his “talking records” in the early 1970s, it acquired a new connotation....
..., and does not stay for an answer before declaring his own preference; the parents of friends on “Wedding Of A Friend” who “said I was brave” — the kind of comment from friends’ parents that can hold a range...
...The short “Melody” by Frank Rich that followed has a broad, rolling, swirling sound that suited them, the place, the mood of the night....
...While Theo wasn’t invited to Rob and Daphne’s wedding, he returned to St Louis for a few other weddings around that time....
...My particular favourites are Luke Clennell’s London Melodies of 1812, presenting a lively and charismatic gallery of disreputable characters....
...They are brilliant classical musicians playing haunting but contemporary lyrical interpretations of Nordic folk melodies....
...I first heard her soul mix on the then-underground Austrian radio station FM4, and I find the subtle guitar and the melody very relaxing....
...Another performer, The Lion, imagines himself invited to the nuptials of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip (“Royal Wedding”); later, he extols the Highway Code....
...Farantouri navigates the microtonal warps and wobbles of the melody with aplomb, her voice rich with resonant vibrato....
...His compositions shift from key to key and melodies shade their harmonic support....
...Sarah Beth Tomberlin describes writing her debut album At Weddings during a period of “heavy isolation”....
...But their melodies often feel insubstantial, especially when sung by a cast of West End musical theatre performers rather than opera singers....
...But more representative was the way Beyoncé’s “Naughty Girl”, with its brash orientalist melody and Las Vegas erotica routines from her dancers, morphed into the Egyptian flute sample and sex industry braggadocio...
...But the melodies of “Le Monde” and “Lobé” were simple and delightful....
...A rare guitar-free performance came from the Syrian wedding singer Omar Souleyman, accompanied here just by a keyboardist with multiple samples and backing tracks....
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