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unusual facts about rhythms



430 West Records

1999: 4W-335 Octave One Presents Kaotic Spacial Rhythm - Kaotic Spacial Rhythms Two (12")

1999: 4W-325 Octave One Presents Kaotic Spacial Rhythms - M-Class / Kaotic Space(12")

2000: 4W-345 Octave One Presents Kaotic Spacial Rhythms - Kaotic Spacial Rhythms Three - Barrage (12")

A Disappearing Number

The play includes live tabla playing, which "morphs seductively into pure mathematics", as the Financial Times review put it, "especially when … its rhythms shade into chants of number sequences reminiscent of the libretto to Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach. One can hear the beauty of the sequences without grasping the rules that govern them."

Alfonso Joseph

Candido, the great Cuban Latin-Jazz percussionist, also personally coached and trained Joseph on Cuban bass rhythms and syncopation.

America – South Africa

The Allmusic review by Ron Wynn describes the album as a mix of "African rhythms, township melodies, and the Ensemble's usual array of blistering solos, vocal effects, percussive colors, and furious collective improvisations".

Andy Diagram

He now records and tours the world with his own, much acclaimed band The Spaceheads, where his unique sound and melodic sense are complemented by the emotive rhythms of drummer Richard Harrison.

Backsliders

These guys are renowned for captivating live shows – an eclectic mix of blues styles moving from driving delta blues riffs and jungle-like rhythms to ‘Piedmont’ blues influenced ‘all-acoustic’ unplugged treatments of 1920’s songs by blues heroes such as Mississippi Fred McDowell and Robert Johnson.

Barnesville, Maryland

At the top of a ridge with views of Sugarloaf Mountain to the north and the Catoctin Mountain and Blue Ridge ranges to the west, Barnesville enjoys a connection with the rhythms of the natural world while being within commuting distance of the nation's capital.

Biological clock

Circadian rhythm, living organisms' adaptations to solar related rhythms

Biorhythm

The 23- and 28-day rhythms used by biorhythmists, however, were first devised in the late 19th century by Wilhelm Fliess, a Berlin physician and patient of Sigmund Freud.

Boswell Sisters

Connee's reworkings of the melodies and rhythms of popular songs, together with Glenn Miller's arrangements, and New York jazz musicians (including The Dorsey Brothers, Benny Goodman, Bunny Berigan, Fulton McGrath, Joe Venuti, Arthur Schutt, Eddie Lang, Joe Tarto, Manny Klein, Dick McDonough, and Carl Kress), made these recordings unlike any others.

Cal Tjader Plays Harold Arlen

He swipes string-section sounds (icy and twangy by turns) from the moderns, steals chords from Bartók's string quartets, throws in some Hollywood soundtrack stuff, conks on the bare piano strings, and fools around with counter-rhythms.

Calypso-style baila

Sri Lankan groups such as Los Cabelleros led by Neville Fernando (first ever Sinhala pop group), Las Bambas, The Humming Birds, Los Muchachos, and The Moonstones (whose members included Annesley Malewana and Clarence Wijewardane) practiced this music, which melded Caribbean rhythms to traditional Sri Lankan baila music.

Chico Science

Influenced by such musicians as James Brown, Grandmaster Flash and Kurtis Blow, their music cleverly fused rock, funk, and hip hop with maracatu and other traditional rhythms of Brazil's Northeast.

City rhythm

Crang, M.A. (2001) Rhythms of the City in Thrift, N. and May, J. 2001 Timespace.

Colourbox

Their sound was eclectic, drawing from reggae and soul influences (with covers of tracks by U-Roy and Augustus Pablo released as singles), beat-box driven hip-hop rhythms, blue-eyed soul, as well as a fusion of far-ranging influences spanning from classic R&B, to dub and industrial.

Costa Rican calypso

In Costa Rica, the calypso and other afro-caribbean rhythms are most present in the Province of Limón, where most of the Jamaican immigrations first came in the nineteenth century.

Crazy Rhythms

Bar/None Records reissued Crazy Rhythms on 8 September 2009, while Domino Records reissued the album outside of the U.S. and Canada.

Cross Rhythms

The name "Cross Rhythms" is also used by two other UK community radio stations, Cross Rhythms Plymouth - officially launched on 29 March 2007 and Cross Rhythms Teesside, officially launched on 27 April 2008.

Dawganova

It's a unique collection of Latin rhythms and melodies inspired by the group's newest member, Argentine guitar virtuoso, Enrique Coria.

Faschingsschwank aus Wien

The longest and one of the more virtuosic movements, this piece is notable for its innovative rhythms and its brief quote of "La Marseillaise."

Glenn Llopis

Llopis’ framework is presented based on his experiences as a corporate executive, as well as the well-grounded lessons of the immigrant perspective that were inspired from his father, Frank Llopis – a victim of Castro’s revolution in Cuba who was a prominent Latin music pioneer that introduced rock 'n' roll into the rhythms and sounds of Salsa music and Merengue music with his quartet, :es:Los Llopis, in the 1950s and 60’s.

Gryllus bimaculatus

In recent studies, Pigment Dispersing Factor has been implicated in the nocturnal rhythms of crickets.

Haitian diaspora

On intensely hot days, passersby strolling along these avenues and boulevards have their nostrils filled with the aromas of fried meats and plantains, and their ears with rhythms of Sweet Micky, Konpa, Zin, T-Vice, CaRiMi, Tabou Combo, and Boukman Eksperyans, to name some of the most celebrated musical groups and bands.

Helikopter-Streichquartett

The piece focuses on Stockhausen's dreamed idea of a string quartet playing tremolos which blend so well with the timbres and the rhythms of the rotor blades that the helicopters sound like musical instruments (Stockhausen 1996, 214).

Historism

He differentiated between both phenomena as follows: The term historicism is used in his influential books The Poverty of Historicism and The Open Society and Its Enemies to describe “an approach to the social sciences which assumes that historical prediction is their primary aim, and which assumes that this aim is attainable by discovering the 'rhythms' or the 'patterns', the 'laws' or the 'trends' that underlie the evolution of history”.

I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground

In an earlier version of this song (Okeh, 1925) the banjo is even more remarkable in its halting rhythms, and the singer decided he would "rather be a lizzard sic..."

Indian Fantasy

The piece is based on several melodies and rhythms from various American Indian tribes; Busoni had received them from American ethnomusicologist Natalie Curtis Burlin.

Julia Powers

Julia's latest endeavor is Core Rhythms, which she co-created with another ballroom champion, Jaana Kunitz.

Kagrra,

Their lyrics were in the style of Heian era poetry, their costumes frequently incorporated traditional Japanese clothing styles, and traditional Japanese instruments and drum rhythms were used in some of their songs.

Loop Guru

Loop Guru's main exuberant oeuvre of lively rhythms and effusive sounds is occasionally punctuated by more contemplative albums (e.g., The Third Chamber) that are reminiscent and influenced by ambient music and similar to musical artists such as Brian Eno and Jon Hassell.

Louis-Jules André

His best-known work is probably the Museum of Natural History (now the Gallery of Evolution) in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, a transitional work combining classical rhythms and ornamental details with cast-iron structure and a glass roof.

Mathieu Boogaerts

His sketchy, intimate sound sometimes mixes African rhythms with reggae, and his influences such as the Dutch singer Dick Annegarn, with whom he toured in 1997.

Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington

Metronomic society: Natural rhythms and human timetables (1988)

Moshe Efrati

Nijinsky is said to have used this method to cue his dancers for Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, as the rhythms were too complex for Nijinsky’s dancers to follow.

Nervus Rex

Soon joined by Miriam Linna, drumming for the Cramps at the time and later, Jonathan Gildersleeve, Nervus Rex started to develop an uptempo pop sound focusing on driving surf guitar twang and danceable rhythms.

Ogguere

Deciding to disregard the lucrative reggaeton niche, Edrey and Ulises' idea was to use all the Cuban rhythms and create a fusion of Mambo, Son, Chachacha and mix them with funkier sounds, like the rumba.

Oorpazhachi Kavu

Having two specialist drummers (Maaraars) ensures correct method of drumming (Chenda rhythms similar to the one in Thayambaka or Thodayam in Kathakali).

Phase curve

Phase response curve is the relationship between the timing and the effect of a treatment designed to affect circadian rhythms.

Pratima Barua Pandey

The most crucial point in her life came when Dr. Bhupen Hazarika visited Gauripur in 1955 and attended a jalsa organised on a social occasion, the shy young Pratima, though tongue-tied with fear, let her voice and the lyrics of the lokageet in Goalpariya dialect flow in tune with the strings and rhythms of the dhol, junuka, dotora, darinda, dhuluki and Bashi which are musical instruments in Goalpariya culture.

Ramon Goose

As of 2012 Goose has started work on the Desert Rock (band) a unique musical project which evolved after Goose travelled to the Sahara and also Dakar to combine his love of Berber and Mandinka rhythms and melodies with Blues Rock.

Sam Clayton

Clayton was introduced to Little Feat, an eclectic band drenched in Southern rhythms, funk, and alternative rock, by his friend Kenny Gradney with whom he had played behind Delaney & Bonnie, and who was to replace original bassist Roy Estrada.

Samba reggae

The surdos (bass drums) play a 2/4 rhythm with swing while other instruments provide contrasting rhythms in straight and syncopated time.

Sila and the Afrofunk Experience

As SF Weekly noted, “Sila's concern with the mission of his lyrics is matched by the power of his grooves, an addictive mix of heavy funk, lively Afrobeat, and sun-soaked island rhythms.”

Synaptic noise

Gamma and theta oscillations, released during exploratory activities, create modulated rhythms that transform into prolonged excitation, and furthermore into memories or improper potentiation.

The Chips

The group's first recording is their most enduring; "Rubber Biscuit" started life as Johnson's answer to the marching rhythms of the Warwick School For Delinquent Teenagers while he was an intern there.

The Drovers

Songwriters Mike Kirkpatrick (guitar) and David Callahan (bass, vocals) drew from Irish rhythms to craft songs that became increasingly psychedelic over a 12-year period until the band ceased performing in September 2002.

The Worst of Monte Cazazza

#*Vocals, Guitar, Featuring (sequencer and rhythms): Monte Cazazza


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