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...Les Amazones D’Afrique’s new album, Musow Danse, opens in a squall of distorted likembé, or thumb piano, from Levy Ekofo....
...Between June and August we’d be rehearsing one song lasting 10 or 12 minutes. Those times were super-fun.” Casimir played bass pans — “that’s six large oil drums in a small flat, which wasn’t ideal!”...
...“La femme d’argent” was a rich swirl of bass and electric organ vamps, at once mellow and precise, with Delorme’s drumming giving the track more force than the recorded version....
...The evening concert in this BBC Total Immersion day featured just one overtly political work in Luigi Nono’s Canti di vita e d’amore, which sets texts denouncing nuclear weapons and Franco’s fascist regime...
...More darkly, former Rolling Stones bass guitarist Bill Wyman admitted in his autobiography that he met his future wife Mandy Smith when she was underage: “She was a woman at 13.”...
...A combined argument of justified national self-defence and raison d’état, it was easy to conclude — as Bass says many Japanese did — that Tojo’s main crime was not having fought the war but, rather, having...
...Just hauling a double bass around is exercise. Tell me about an animal you have loved.A basset hound named Sydney....
...*fixed, we’d forgotten to include the never-leavers....
...They sawed away in a valiant but losing contest with thuddy bass drum beats and skittering hi-hat percussion. Songs were rapped with full attack by Digga....
...With a meal like this, you would hold your bowl in one hand, and that’s where you’d eat everything from....
...But then there was a sea-bass tiradito, and I’d have forgiven them anything....
...The Goldberg doesn’t boast subwoofers and extended bass; for living-room listening that would be overkill, according to Franassovici. “We want the sound to breathe in the room,” he says. And it does....
...“I’d very much like to be equal to you,” he whispers. Fittingly, we cut to screams, courtesy of Butler as sadomasochist Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen....
...The angle-grinder chorus wasn’t the only thing kicking: Roan bounced around the stage like a majorette who’d been slipped a pill....
...The dish was so massive that I worried I’d misread it, and would be paying a hundred bucks. Thrillingly, it was $32. What’s your favourite Chinese restaurant in New York?...
..., 808 bass.”...
...God, if all salads were like that, I’d be happy. Dead, but happy....
...The Nobel Family: Swedish Geniuses in Tsarist Russia by Bengt Jangfeldt, translated by Harry D Watson (Bloomsbury Academic) Sweden’s Nobel family, chiefly associated nowadays with the Nobel Prize, were...
...I have to negotiate with a tyrannical maître d’ to get a stage view. Someone at my table orders a shrimp cocktail; the table behind me drinking Martinis....
...I’d guess Pete’s age at 37, but he turns out to be 65. There’s a touch of Shane Warne about him....
...I think I’d have loved Jackie....
...Being a bass player in a punk band is my one unfulfilled wish....
...In January 1977, he appeared on a BBC chat show presented by Melvyn Bragg, along with guests who included the footballer Rodney Marsh....
...out stuff about me that I’d prefer nobody knew’.”...
...Occasionally, he’d drive into the desert with some friends, a generator and a few instruments (including his homemade guitar) “and just make noise”....
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