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...Drawing from London’s new-wave jazz scene, Colectiva is the all-female group whose “jazz tropicaliente” blends deep Afro-Latin groove, experimental beats and bold horn lines....
...One scene of torture is accompanied by 1930s dance music (Papaioannou saw Pina Bausch’s Café Müller at 19 and never quite got over it)....
The songs from the 1985 gig put together by Bob Geldof are moving, but the script is often clunky
...Doubt, even darkness infiltrate here, starting from the ominously wandering six horns at the start, through passages of troubled agitation, right to a brief epilogue, in which the music tentatively seems...
...There is a stark kalimba prickle to “Feeling Good”, doing the work of the horns on Nina Simone’s definitive reading....
...Rock music has a proud tradition of stupidity. I don’t mean literal stupidity — although there’s no shortage of that in rock’s annals. No, I mean an attachment to the idea of stupidity....
...s bass lock into a groove over which the music roils. ★★★★☆ ‘That’s What Remained’ is released by Glitterbeat...
...French-Lebanese trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf joined Kidjo for an interpretation of Talking Heads’ “Once in a Lifetime”, playfully sparring with her on improvised horn solos as she shimmied across the stage,...
...At one point he tries to imitate the sound of a French horn imitating the sound of an elephant. At another, he re-creates the bass line from Junior Walker’s soul classic “Shotgun”....
...There are moments when the songs seem to billow like sails, buoyant with string and horn arrangements, ascending chords and the piping innocence of a children’s choir....
...Of course, Wagner’s music is also about eros, and it was this that dominated the concert’s short first half....
...“For flaws, you can cover them up with background noise, muffled music.”...
...To end, three wind players joined the ensemble, including British horn-player Ben Goldscheider, principal horn with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra....
...The Staatskapelle was on fine form, with softly glowing strings and clarion brass, especially in the resonant, golden horn solos from Karsten Hoffmann and Yun Zeng....
...Later, Bob Dorough’s “Naughty Number Nine” celebrates arithmetical magic with blousy horns and Ron Sexsmith’s love song “Right About Now” eases back sensuously over sparse hip-hop shades....
...“Not to toot our horn but I don’t think there’s any record label or management company that can compare with what we’ve been involved in,” Jalloh says. Jae5 strikes a similarly bullish note....
...But for Indian liberals it marked a disturbing moment, both because of the fervent crowds of young men chanting “Jai Shri Ram!”...
...At a candlelight memorial in Lagos last week supporters wearing white T-shirts, some emblazoned with a picture of the late rapper, chanted “justice for MohBad” amid the din of vuvuzela horns....
...Cohen’s last album, Naked Truth, celebrated the intimacy of kinship and friends, Rawicz’s outgoing Chroma combined jazz, world music and funk....
...The food here is still expensive (starters from £11 to £18, main courses £28 to £58), but there are DJs — and a great playlist of Turkish and Central Asian dance music — and cocktails which involve not just...
...When she began releasing music with the label and art collective PC Music a decade ago, she was ambivalent about her material being described as “cute”; she has since seized that spirit across her vivid...
...While he was recovering he conceived “Mam Yinne Wa”, a song that became his calling card and ignited interest in the region’s Frafra gospel music....
...The boutiques that line the lobby bar — where pop classics are given a lounge-music spin by a self-playing Steinway grand piano — include the world’s first floating Rolex shop....
...There’s the look, reminiscent of the less-is-more modernist refinement of Dieter Rams’ work for Braun....
...A super-talent in music, Berryman trained in architecture and engineering before forming Coldplay in his late teens. “I thought I’d be designing chairs and lighting; music was a pipe dream,” he says....
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