Tinariwen put the guitar at the heart of their revolution, adapting traditional Tuareg melodies and rhythms to this new and alien instrument.
I'm trying to share the joy of that with people, to show them that a classical guitar is still a guitar and not some kind of alien instrument that can't be understood!
Eidelman wanted the music to aid the visuals; for Rura Penthe, he strove to create an atmosphere that reflected the alien and dangerous setting, introducing exotic instruments for color.
Interest rates up, European real estate values off the dial, the skies full of cranes, record art prices, zillionaire upstarts, bubble markets going up forever, all underpinned by leveraged trillion-dollar alien financial instruments suddenly melting like ice cream in front of their holders.
Among Baluchis the authoritarian state is an alien edifice, an instrument of the Punjabis and the Pathans.
Classically trained, she strives to make the instrument sound alien, far removed from rock clichés, most clearly so on forthcoming album Never.
Utilising what Way describes as currently the "least radio-friendly instrument", Hesitant Alien draws from the iconic guitar-led sounds he grew up with – particularly David Bowie circa TVC 1, Britpop and his guitar heroes during art school, Mary Timony and Carrie Brownstein.
The Way I Do layers lullaby piano with austere wind instruments and an alien female voice at once distant and present, icy and warm; Dream opens with the same voice (Elisa Rodrigues) alone, girlish and clear, then invites each instrument to soar above its melody.
Fellow blues and history advocate Benjamin Booker used a similar tack earlier in the day: While elsewhere on the field musicians were crafting alien tones with miraculously sophisticated instruments, Booker harnessed an Epiphone hollow-body guitar and went to work.
Placing a delicate instrument on an alien world, millions of miles from Earth is no small feat.
I'd have to look him up myself to discover microtonalism and the fact that he designed some gnarly, alien-looking stringed and percussion instruments.
