(Vocal/instrumental group, 1992–present) Hailing from Northern Ireland, Ash comprise Tim Wheeler, (vocals, guitar), Mark Hamilton (bass) and Rick McMurray (drums). Initially trading as teenagers, their infectious blend of indie rock was captured on their debut album 1977 (1996). They had expanded to a wider palette on Nu-Clear Sound (1998) by which time they had added Charlotte ...
Cut a clean end to a length of bamboo, reed or other tube, place it near the mouth and direct a narrow stream of breath at its edge, and with a little practice, a pitched note can be produced. Blow a little harder and that note will jump to a series of ascending harmonics. It is not ...
, and slightly off centre on the baya, is a circle of hardened black tuning paste (siyahi or gab). This is made from a combination of iron oxide, ash, glue, flour and copper vitriol, and makes a dry, unpitched sound when struck. Tabla Sounds Indian musicians use a system of mnemonics to vocalize rhythms, ...
devices and synth pads to fill out his live solo performances. But perhaps it is no more evident than in his custom electric guitar, which features a two-piece swamp ash body with a cavity hollowed out and then vented on the treble side cutaway, a Graph-Tech piezo pickup and a specially made Waffair Theene DiMarzio magnetic pickup, Bill ...
featured vital hits ‘People Everyday’ and ‘Mr Wendel’. After Zingalamadni (1994) the band split. Speech went on to a solo career. Styles & Forms | Nineties | Rock Personalities | Ash | Nineties | Rock ...
movement, Bauhaus were a prototype goth outfit who made their recording debut in 1979 with the nine-minute single ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’. Peter Murphy’s brooding voice was accompanied by Daniel Ash (guitar), David J. (bass) and Kevin Haskins (drums) for four albums until the singer left in 1983. Their only Top 20 hit was a faithful cover of David Bowie’s ‘Ziggy ...
as exploring the untapped possibilities of the electronic sound has seen it influence dance and electronic music as well as experimental rock. The Krautrock Triumvirate In the late-1960s, acts like Ash Ra Tempel, Amon Duul II and Cosmic Jokers were inspired by psychedelic rock and Cluster pioneered a hypnotic drone sound, but the most influential Krautrock bands were Neu ...
to bands hailing from the north-west of England. Performed onstage at ‘jive hives’ such as the Aintree Institute, Grosvenor Ballroom, Hambleton Hall, Litherland Town Hall, Knotty Ash Village Hall, New Clubmoor Halland, most famously, the Cavern Club, the bright and melodic music was, largely, a throwback to the days of leather-clad ...
For many veterans of the punk era, new wave is not a genre at all. The term was coined by the music press to encompass acts who were influenced by punk, but less overtly rebellious and with more traditionally crafted pop skills. New wave acts traded largely on a back-to-basics desire to revive the short, sharp thrill of ...
Like its close relation the concertina, the accordion is a glorified mouth organ, in which the ‘reeds’ (now generally made of tempered steel) are set in vibration by a rectangular bellows. The bellows are operated by the left hand, which also – as in all keyboard instruments – manipulates the so-called bass keyboard, in this case a ...
There are many different instrumental interfaces through which it is possible to control synthesized or sampled sounds – the most common being the piano-style keyboard. The electronic musician is also able to access a wide range of sounds through electric guitar, string, percussion and wind instruments. These devices are, to a large extent, quite recognizably conventional, ...
A bowed string instrument, the arpeggione was invented in Vienna by J. G. Stauffer in 1823–24. A kind of bass viol, with soundholes like a viol, it is waisted, but shaped more like a large guitar than a viol or double bass. Six-stringed and with metal frets, it was tuned E, A, d, ...
The bagpipe consists of drones, or reedpipes, which are connected to a windbag. The windbag is held under the arm and is squeezed by the elbow to pass air into the pipes. The windbag is inflated by a blowpipe or bellows, and the melody is played by means of a chanter, a pipe with fingerholes. Although the ...
The bagpipe principle is simple: instead of the player blowing directly on a reed pipe, the air is supplied from a reservoir, usually made of animal skin, which is inflated either by mouth or by bellows. The result is the ability to produce a continuous tone, and the possibility of adding extra reed-pipes to enable a single ...
The banjo is a plucked stringed instrument with a circular body and fretted neck. Its roots lie in the French and British colonies of Africa, where instruments made from a hollowed-out gourd covered with animal skin, bamboo neck and catgut strings were popular. Particularly associated with celebrations and dancing, these instruments went by various names including banza and ...
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