With its furious rhythm section anchoring a shrieky melody, it could easily soundtrack a dinosaur-slaying scene in a James Cameron film.
Hassan Hakmoun, playing a sintir (a three-stringed, wood and camel-skin lute), matched his younger brother's furious rhythm, whipping around his long, reddish dreadlocks.
The city was a perfect metaphor for his spiritual condition, its "extrahuman architecture, its furious rhythm, its geometry and anguish," as he described it later, according to a biography by Leslie Stainton, "Lorca: A Dream of a Life" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999).
Drummers banged out furious rhythms, and a man twanged away on an African mouth harp.
Samples are sped up to a surreal, chipmunk whir or slowed down to a dirgelike pace, at times clashing with the furious rhythms.
Tina Brown, Editor-in-Chief of the "Daily Beast" aptly described her news and opinion website in a recent NPR interview as "a feral animal, that you can't possibly beat its fast and furious rhythms".
Crashing drums, furious guitar rhythms and climactic choruses still abound but, without the previous vibrancy and lyrical originality, this album dampens the spirits rather than quickens the heart.
Immediately the intimate and packed crowd of party-loving young musos submit to the almighty bass quake, squawking synthesisers and furious thrusting rhythms of kuduro, the latest imported urban dance flavour.
The track got louder and louder, faster and faster, and when Carvalho started the count" 1..2..3..4" -- the crowd frantically jumped up and down to the sound of a throbbing bass, roaring synths, and the furious pulsating rhythms of Kuduro.
Even in the majors, he'd let opponents' heckling get to him until "I'd get so mad that I'd lose focus... get furious... lose rhythm... and concentration".
Matching the swirling patterns of Sasha Milavic Davies's choreography, Browne's score evolves from a chant in three-four time to gorgeous polyphonic song by way of syncopated rhythms, furious bursts of clapping and bouts of banshee wailing.
