His habit of flattening the third and seventh notes of the major scale harks back to folk modes, yet it also allows for rapid-fire modulations and polymorphous key schemes.
Like "Defriended," the new tune -- to be issued next week on 12-inch vinyl with a nearly 15-minute-long remix on the B-side -- finds Beck in the trippy psych-folk mode we know from records like 1998's "Mutations" and 2006's "The Information"; it's full of swirling guitars and rides a heavy, head-nodding beat.
These Cretan authors composed their works almost entirely in the 15-syllable iambic verse of the Greek folk song, whose modes of expression influenced them deeply.
The principal male character (Glen Hansard) neither he nor his female counterpart (Marketa Irglova) are given names is a street musician who favors the wailing-white-man-with-a-guitar mode of folk pop.
Composed by Graham Tardif, with lyrics by Mr. de Heer, and performed by Archie Roach, a husky-voiced Aboriginal singer, together they suggest an extended folk ballad in the mode of Curtis Mayfield's "Superfly".
Yet, the unsustainable construct of the wealth-producing risk investment industry discussed by the folks in crisis management mode in New York is precisely the problem impacting the folks in D.C., who seemingly weren't aware of the crisis occurring in private equity and venture capital.
Ms. Alberstein writes most of her own songs, often using the symmetrical, question-and-answer phrases and minor modes of folk tunes.
"The recession has pretty much tied folks down to survival mode," said Steve Cash, the executive director of the Henry Council for Quality Growth, who is white.
On "Are You Passionate?" (Reprise), Neil Young takes a break from his two most common modes (dreamy folk rock, lumbering proto-grunge) to cut a soul record with members of the legendary Stax combo Booker T. and the MGs.
Throughout, there's a subtle accommodation between Chinese and European traditions, a gentle tug-o'-war between oriental folk and classical music modes, European electropop and avant-garde, nowhere more dramatically than in the marvellous "Monkey Bee", which builds through Chinese chant-song and glacial keyboard glissandi to a pounding art-rock climax.
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