Sentence examples for instrumental backdrop from inspiring English sources

Throughout, Snoop's aggressive narrative works alongside another relatively simple instrumental backdrop, including a break in which the rapper's lyrical flow resembles a barking dog.

Kihlstedt's new vocal work "At Night We Walk in Circles and Are Consumed by Fire," in which the composer both sang and played violin, gave an intricately shaded instrumental backdrop to spells of art-pop songwriting reminiscent, at times, of Björk.

And it sometimes combines an old voice with a new instrumental backdrop: During a segment on the expansion of the American prison system, you hear back-to-back versions of "Where Did You Sleep Last Night," sung by Kurt Cobain and Lead Belly, over Massive Attack's core band.

They're master editors with tricks up their sleeves, always ready to bestow something good on those who are willing to wait.

The second disc collected fifteen instrumentals used as backdrops during the show's run, including four not on the previous collection.

Glass has a real affinity for the French text and sets the words eloquently, underpinning them with delicately patterned instrumental textures to provide a slow changing backdrop to the action, every note beautifully judged.

The score evolves in a flow, sometimes barely audible, of isolated instrumental gestures and fragments against a near-continuous backdrop of rumbles, hums and pedal tones.

Friedrich was instrumental in transforming landscape in art from a backdrop subordinated to human drama to a self-contained emotive subject.

The very air seems to shimmer, thanks to Robert Rauschenberg's vibrant pointillistic backdrop and unitards, and Morton Feldman's delicate instrumental score "Ixion," with its trilling flutes and pockets of pregnant silence.

The movie-palace splendor of Radio City Music Hall made an appropriately majestic backdrop for Explosions in the Sky, an instrumental rock band from Austin, Tex., whose music can swell to fill any grand space.

In April 1970, Newman released his second album, 12 Songs, a collection featuring spare arrangements with simple instrumental parts underneath Newman's vocals, Ry Cooder providing an economical backdrop of slide guitar.