This could enable us to add many more drum voices, and a button-based interface to changing the voices corresponding to each box.
Grass, 78, won international acclaim in 1959 with his first novel, The Tin Drum, voicing the thoughts of a generation raised in the Nazi era who had survived the war.
Seefeel has the lineup of a rock band -- guitar, bass, drums, voice, electronics -- but the approach of abstract electronica.
Each stem (bass, guitar, drums, voice, and effects) can be bought separately for ninety-nine cents, or in a bundle for $5.94.
The YEAH YEAH YEAHS represent this decade's New York rock renaissance, mixing arty intelligence and punky back-to-basics -- guitar, drums, voice -- sparked by the giddy, anarchic presence of the singer KAREN O. Three years after their great debut album, they're releasing a more cryptic, more somber follow-up, "Show Your Bones," in March.
With nothing available to buy as yet on CD, it's the live gig where Foals are in their element: they take Franz Ferdinand's "music to make girls dance" credo to the max, using guitars, drums, voice, bass and keyboards to make a sort of manic, organic, polyrhythmic electronica.
And because I would often listen to it and focus solely on drums, voice, lyrics, or melody –- I was still able to hear new things each time". The resulting work reminds us of what might occur if Edvard Munch had tried his hand at rock videos.
The Roots prefer Ahmir (Questlove) Thompson's sinewy boom-bap drumming, voices that sound human and vintage-style soul vamps played by the band itself (though there are samples, too).
This incarnation of the NSB consists of John Boyle (kazoo, drums, thumb piano), John Clement (guitar, drums), Bill Exley (voice, kazoo, cooking pot), Murray Favro (guitar, drums), Hugh McIntyre (bass), and Art Pratten (violin, water pipe).
They make no secret of their continued interest in a few grand themes, usually involving nature and mortality, and "Raven" repurposes material from "Land" (1991), including a powerful drum and voice solo by Robert Mirabal, who performed on Thursday.
