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...I don’t think doing orchestral music is better than doing a folk song or an advert. I would do a jingle if it was an interesting thing to do and if I had full rein and freedom.”...
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...Played with calm poise by the Esposito Quartet, it fades into silence, reaching its own timeless zone. ★★★★☆ ‘Folks’ Music’ is released by Louth Contemporary Music Society...
...Deeper Well is coffee-shop folk....
...Expertly marshalled by the players, the music swelled and ebbed and surged, staking out a space between folk, US roots music and hard rock....
...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....
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...Lee came to prominence as a folk-song collector....
...Twice in two days I heard the music of Scottish folk band Talisk....
...Their nimble close harmonies recall their Flemish countrywomen Laïs, but Las Lloronas are more varied stylistically than that group’s galloping folk rock....
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...Previous names in traditional music crop up in their conversation, from Dublin street ballad specialist Frank Harte to 1970s folk band Planxty....
...The personal edges into the political on “Dil”, with an irresistibly bouncy Punjabi folk melody on pulsing accordion....
...Most of the music is country (Keith Urban, Luke Combs, now Beyoncé) but not all of it (Ed Sheeran, Stevie Nicks). Since it’s choreographed, it’s easy for non-dancers to get involved....
...Flamenco had become the Andalusian wing of the UK’s postwar folk boom, and in the spring of 1967 Peña was playing the Cambridge Folk Festival, brainchild of local fireman Ken Woollard....
...There’d be ska, Turkish and Greek folk music in the neighbourhood, and everybody in the same piss-pot of poverty.” He contracted meningitis at seven and was in and out of comas for nearly a year....
...As advertised, rock hits blended with jazzed-out folk songs, while teenage rock and roll morphed into edge-of-seat jazz....
...The vocalists are Kate Stables of This Is the Kit and Sam Genders of Tunng, both from the alternative-folk borders of UK indie music....
...Hans Krása’s catchy Tanec (Dance) for string trio, composed and performed in the ghetto, is full of pulsating folk rhythms and strident harmonies and comes across like a sort of dance of death....
...It comes on the back of the release of Tonkori in the Moonlight, a compilation of his early folk work before he formed the Dub band....
...It’s not surprising to hear Maxine Peake admit that she’s “a bit of a folk-horror fan”....
...Colour, like music, for Kandinsky and his circle was a vital “means of exercising direct influence upon the soul”....
...The Ländler folk dance was earthy, the Rondo-Burleske had breathtaking savagery. The final sigh glowed with sorrow, regret, acceptance and joy: Mahler. ★★★★★ carnegiehall.org...
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