Instead of building clockwork patterns, the backup falls away, exposing Mr. Temple's voice in pure vulnerability, followed by a long instrumental coda that's not a crisp grid but a haze of bell tones and edgeless sustained sounds: the entropy that the rest of the album had tried so busily to stave off.
He is a 35-year-old father of six who rubs beards with offensive linemen, graduated from Harvard, got picked in the seventh round and, in the words of friend and former teammate Scott Chandler, "runs like a duck a little". He spent his first 13 years in the NFL on a circular pattern: land a backup job, win the starting spot, play well enough to earn a contract, crash back to Earth, repeat.
And his music's blend of classical and progressive-rock intricacy, pointillistic backup singing and West African picking patterns rightly appeals to the equally eclectic Bjork.
Schirra was named as the prime crew for MA-8, with Gordon Cooper as his backup, repeating the backup-one fly-one pattern set by the previous two missions.
He was a backup for most of the past four seasons, a holding pattern that tested his persistence and cost him his place on the United States national team.
On her album, "Yaala" (Indigo/Harmonia Mundi), her modal melodies slice through openwork patterns of guitars, marimbas and drums; backup voices answer from a respectful distance.
In the zero export case, the backup capacities are determined by the countries' weather patterns and demand.
The remaining need for backup energy is due to correlations in the generation patterns, and cannot be further reduced by transmission.
These men (it was clearly a boys' club) also play backup on the new recordings, which fall into an illuminating pattern.
These women, with their smart patterns of arresting gestures, start looking like the backup groups of 1960s pop stars.
