The novel clangour of its colourful instruments led to their wide use throughout Europe, where they became an integral part of the thrilling military spectacle.
This debut release from Chicago indie trio Speck Mountain will gladden the hearts of all those pining for the drowsy haze of Mazzy Star, the dense guitar clangour of My Bloody Valentine, and the churning riffs of The Velvet Underground.
The fragrant little phrases drop away, and all that remains is a roughly joyful theme, like a "lurching and riotous clangour of bells".
Some are relatively clear-cut: east versus west; imperial homeland versus infiltrating colonist; pacifism versus martial clangour (from the outset most of the action is contingent upon the war); rationalism versus faith (Hardy is a God-disdaining atheist, apparently visited by the ghost of a dead lover, while Ramanujan supposedly dreams his theories with the help of the Hindu goddess Namagiri).
Steady loyalists are bound to miss the band's emotive clangour, but Clear Heart finds valid new arrangements for Finn's addictive storytelling.
Twenty years earlier, it manifested itself in rebuilding Orange Juice, with Manyika's help, into the sleek, smart unit of 1984's Texas Fever and The Orange Juice, where a perfect middle distance was located between the shambolic clangour of their early work and a more polished, funky sound.
Opener Tread Lightly is classic Mastodon bluster, all rippling fills from octopoid drummer Brann Dailor colliding with subtly inventive riffs and roaring vocals; The Motherload is an out-and-out pop song, albeit one underpinned by thunderous six-string clangour; High Road is a lurching, dark-metal delight.
Phillip Chevron of the Pogues is the musical director, and the play's theme song, often ascribed to Behan, although he said it was written by someone who'd never hear it, as he was 'pretty much a tramp', rings round the stage with a great, doleful clangour.
His oeuvre vies with that of Boulez to be the most accomplished body of French music in recent years, and yet is relatively neglected because of the 70-year-old Boulez's greater clangour.
The rest was lost in the sudden clangour of the Bishopton tunnel; the two were silent and contemplative when we emerged, and by Langbank had begun to talk about their children.
They bring out the contrast between its hieratic parades, performed in profile, and the tender duets to Bruce Gilbert's electronic clangour.
