The album's opening track "Heard 'Em Say" exhibits a cascading piano melody provided by excerpts of "Someone That I Used To Love" as performed by Natalie Cole embellished over tumbling beats and warped bass as well as acoustic guitar.
From the cascading flute melody coursing through "2685" to the clangorous drums of "Unsound," the EP draws on everything from polyrhythmic African kizomba and kuduro; to Indian folk music; to his father's collection of Western jazz and Brazilian pop records.
(Sisario) KAKANDE, MORY KANTé (Sunday) Led by Famoro Dioubate, a Guinean griot based in New York, the band Kakande plays light and nimble grooves on electric bass, congas, flutes and saxophone, all surrounding the cascades of melody on Mr. Dioubate's balafon, a wooden xylophone.
Instead, they offer a lovely, cinematic take on the song: Macfarlane croons with the heart-on-sleeve sensitivity of an emo-boy over cascading synth melodies and a breezy funk pulse.
RAMALLAH, West Bank — The shy Palestinian teenager raised her flute and dispatched the courtly melodies and cascading runs of an 18th-century concerto with surprising self-assurance.
For Hands to title their album after the syndrome is quite bold, and although our cognitive pathways remained largely unperturbed, listening to its tracks did induce considerable delight at its surging melodies and cascading keyboards, its rhythms that could hardly be termed EDM but which range from indie-tribal to 60s-groovy.
Shorter's version is a bit darker and more methodical: above unsettled piano keys and cascading percussion, he infuses the melody with sporadic horn fills.
Streets of Your Town may not be the greatest Go-Betweens song, but it's probably the catchiest and best-known – the sparkling acoustic guitars, McLennan's propulsive melody, Amanda Brown's sweetly cascading "shah-ah-ah" backing vocals.
Where many Western divas work their way through songs until they get a chance to let loose and belt, Googoosh treats the peaks of her songs like a Persian singer, letting notes slide and cascade as if her melodies were melting in the heat of her emotion.
