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...They sound great, with well-layered textures and sinewy rhythms, but the music lacks the zest or identity of previous outings....
...“Transfiguration” bought the evening to a peak with multiple rhythms, complex time signatures and a mix of the sombre and bittersweet....
...This threatened to dilute professional artists’ — and music labels’ — share of royalties paid....
...Except for some mushy rhythms from the voices, ensemble playing was superb and the moderate tempo allowed a sensuous beauty to unfold....
...In pieces such as his Armenian Dances of 1916 and a selection of his songs, included here, we go to the roots of Armenian music, so immediately distinctive in its rhythms and modal inflections....
...The Rhythm Method quartet followed with the middle section of Steve Reich’s Different Trains, in part inspired by the trains which transported Jewish people to concentration camps during the Holocaust....
...Chris Potter first crossed paths with the members of this album’s rhythm section in the 1990s, soon after moving to New York in his teens....
...They sang original lyrics to music that drew on Cuban montuno, a tumbao rhythm on the bass, joropo, jazz, salsa and more....
...As the narrative twisted this way and that, indigenous rhythms were mixed with the blues and Patitucci, now on six-string bass guitar, delivered a soaring solo laden with dexterity and singing tones....
...“My father was playing, my cousins were there, and at one point my godfather gave me the güiro and the maracas, ss-kta-ss-kta-ss . . . ” — he mimics a fast, percussive rhythm — “and I started to play . ....
...“Leo” delivers a ferocious highlight of full-force piano while the rhythm section strains at the leash....
...On “Maimouna”, from Sissoko’s 2012 album At Peace, Gripper hangs back, offers suggestions to be taken up on the kora and subtly emphasises the rhythm....
...The rhythms of folk music are all-pervasive. Both Janáček and Bartók had an appreciation of Moravian folk songs and dances and promoted the musical traditions of their native lands....
...But I think at least in my melanin code, rhythm is very much present.” Born in 1987, Jlin’s first experiences of music were dancing to her parents’ records at home after church....
...There is an uplifting quality, energising, even ecstatic, which comes from motor rhythms pulsating in the orchestra and an irresistible pull drawing the music ever forwards....
...Twice in two days I heard the music of Scottish folk band Talisk....
...The rhythms were dynamic, but they had a softer, more open resonance than rock drumming. Astute amplification underlined his deft use of cymbals and rims....
...The aesthetic core was built on the rumbustious rhythms and skin-tight riffs of fusion jazz....
...“Dance the melody of joy and music/because it is the source of our wishes and the truth.” ★★★★☆ ‘Mawja’ is released by Glitterbeat...
...Her familiar extroverted energy guides the orchestra and singers through even the trickiest rhythms and shifting meters....
...Conductor Speranza Scappucci makes the most of Puccini’s waltz rhythms, combining rhythmic vitality with dazzling orchestral colour....
...On keyboards, Irmin Schmidt pounds out contrapuntal rhythms and catchy vamps. Holger Czukay’s basslines and Jaki Liebezeit’s drumming are gripping....
...Plunging straight into a maelstrom, the music is dominated by a handful of motifs which shift around, alternate between instruments, break up into simple rhythms or intervals....
...Two contrasting interludes focus on rhythm and strings and deliver textural detail with minimal fuss....
...There were incidental pleasures on every page, the playful music of the Rhinemaidens, the colouring of nocturnal evil as Hagen dreams — and has anybody ever etched the anxious rhythms of Gutrune’s last comments...
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