body housing a number of small pellets or beans, which bounce against the internal walls of the instrument when it is shaken or struck, like a maraca. A shaker is played in the same way, but the objects that produce the sound are on the outside of the instrument, like the Latin American quijada – the jawbone ...
(Vocal/instrumental group, 1995–99, 2005–present) Crispian Mills (vocals), Jay Darlington (keyboards), Alonza Bevan (bass) and Paul Winter-Hart (drums) formed with the sole intention of making music that sounded as if it had been recorded in the 1960s. Their debut album K (1996) delivered this vision in spades and hits included a cover version of Deep Purple’s ‘Hush’. By second album ...
in the group and give signals to the performers using a whistle (apito). Make-Up of a Samba Band Typically a samba bateria will comprise a group of drums and a shaker (ganzá), scraper (reco-reco) and the agogo, a double- or triple-cone-shaped bell played with a metal or wooden stick. In ascending order of pitch, the drums are the surdo ...
a jug band the washboard is stroked with a whisk broom or metal snare-drum brush. The washboard provides a constant backbeat to the music, like the use of a shaker in Latin-American music, and may replace the drummer in a band. The performer may add other small percussion instruments like a cymbal, woodblock or cowbell to the washboard. ...
the steel-band repertoire has always included a combination of popular songs, jazz, hymns, calypsos and extracts from classical pieces. Introduction | Percussion Instruments Instruments | Rattle & Shaker | Percussion ...
diameter and 240 cm (96 in) long, down to tiny ankle bells worn by dancers. Percussion instruments can be very simple to make, such as a dried bean-pod shaker, or they can require complex and expensive engineering processes like western church bells. Percussionists often train for years to become master performers on their instruments. What is Percussion ? ...
, including the sultry ‘Justify My Love’ for Madonna. He uses a multi-racial/sexual backing band, like Sly and Prince. Styles & Forms | Nineties | Rock Personalities | Kula Shaker | Nineties | Rock ...
(Vocals, songwriter, 1908–89) An early West Coast mover and shaker, Stuart Hamblin was the first cowboy singer to be heard on Los Angeles radio, appearing on KFI as ‘Cowboy Joe’. After a brief spell with the Beverly Hill Billies, he began a 20-year run on his own Lucky Stars show (KFWB) in 1932. Two years later ...
The Britpop market remained open until the end of the 1990s. A host of traditional British guitar bands made their mark: the 1960s retro of Ocean Colour Scene, Kula Shaker and funky Madchester veterans The Charlatans; the spiky post-punk anthems of Oxford trio Supergrass and London’s Elastica, whose frontwoman, Justine Frischmann, began her career with Suede and ...
After the seismic shifts of the previous decade, the 1970s reflected faster-moving, less permanent crazes, beginning with glam rock and ending with the new wave. Glam rock saw the likes of Alice Cooper and Kiss taking make-up to extremes, while the comparatively anonymous Eagles and Bruce Springsteen respectively updated the blueprints established the previous decade by country ...
A frame drum is a skin stretched over and nailed to a shallow square or circular frame. It is played with sticks or with the hands. Frame drums are common to many musical cultures, and the modern tambourine and bodhrán are essentially the same instruments that were being played in Arabia and India in pre-Islamic times. They are often played ...
The Contemporary era can be dated back to Anton Webern’s death in September 1945. Webern’s influence on the generation of post-Second World War composers means that much of the music from the 1950s sounds more modern than music from the last 20 years. Composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen (b. 1928) and Pierre Boulez (b. 1925) extended the 12-note, or serial ...
The Nashville sound, which has been as much praised as maligned, was a classic example of Nashville’s burgeoning record industry flexing its newfound muscles and making an intentional grab at the brass ring of increased record sales. Occasionally called ‘crossover country’, ‘easy-listening country’ or ‘countrypolitan’, the Nashville sound was as much a product of commercial calculation as artistic inspiration. ...
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