(Sisario) THE MOONLIGHTERS (Monday) Few would expect members of Helmet and the Pain Teens to play ukulele-strumming, steel-guitar-sliding, sweetly harmonized, optimistic Hawaiian-style songs.
The current group of eight women and six men holds onto the old repertory and historical style of harmonized spirituals, allowing itself a touch of blues or modern gospel only in songs of tribulation and redemption, but still rousing audiences with its fervor.
His style harmonizes elements both archaic and innovative.
In each case he sang in his silvery and conversational style, harmonizing graciously.
Ms. Welch and Mr. Rawlings perform as an acoustic duo, harmonizing in the style of hillbilly brother groups, with Ms. Welch playing guitar or banjo.
Hence, his style harmonizes with his fervent commitment.
But it wasn't long before his star began to slip, perhaps because his stately, deliberate style no longer harmonized with the high-speed delivery of sound films.
This corny, suds-drenched movie, set mostly in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, would like to imagine that the dreamy, harmonized, rock 'n' roll vocal style refined on city streetcorners, in echoing hallways and under bridges in the late-1950's and early 60's is as vital today as it was 40 years ago.
There are many outside appropriations in this music — the chorus of "Cobweb" is harmonized in a South African vocal style — but the end results feel like a new thing altogether, which is clearly the point.
To harmonize their different styles of spending and decorating, they undertook the renovations in stages or compromised.
