Although based on a "minor drone-blues" in the line of "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", Hendrix's performance has been compared to jazz saxophonist John Coltrane's approach to improvisation.
One song, "Zambra" (the name means a kind of song and dance for a Gypsy feast or wedding), cultivated a minor-key drone, solidifying it through concentration, then broke it open at its climax with a hip-hop groove and a wordless, improvised rap.
Boyskout, a four-woman group from San Francisco, looks back to the pounding minor-key drones of early 1980's mope-rock, probing the betrayals and identity crises of young love with Goth intensity: "I'll swallow poison if you swallow first".
Christos Gevgelis's improvisatory lines made broad leaps or approached as close as a minor second to a drone sustained by the elder Gorgios Gevelis, making a pungent combination.
Raija Ogden reportedly sustained minor head injuries after the drone's operator lost control of the device.
A few words on a milk label may seem like a minor detail but current events (drone wars, NSA spying etc).
The United States has been at war -- major boots-on-the-ground conflicts and minor interventions, firefights, air strikes, drone assassination campaigns, occupations, special ops raids, proxy conflicts, and covert actions -- nearly nonstop since the Vietnam War began.
Every song on this 22-minute EP is in B-flat minor, wrapping serious reverb around droning guitars, drum-machine beats and harmony vocals.
Mr. Kurtag's moving clusters of sound do not behave like major and minor chord progressions, but the droning tones generate a gravitational homeward pull that behaves much like tonality.
But Tolcheev said organizers had given him permission to film, and the javelin-thrower has since voluntarily offered to pay for the minor damage he caused to the drone.
