Its tracks are playful, multilayered and even a bit disorienting, with warm synth pads nestling up against spectral vocal samples, and delicate melodies swaddling rugged rhythms.
And the band still has one of the most flexibly rugged rock rhythm sections in New York, with Tony Scherr on guitars, Rob Jost on bass and Robert DiPietro on drums.
"Ryan Wick is holding it down for Arizona with these latest upfront rugged club rhythms inspired by 00's R&B as much as it is jungle and techno.
The bassist Mark Dresser and the drummer Alex Cline make up a rugged and flexible rhythm team, often breaking into feverish swing.
The program includes "American Life" by the Schoenberg pupil Adolph Weiss, Ives's classic "Three Places in New England," Henry Cowell's "Synchrony" in complex rhythms, Carl Ruggles's rugged "Men and Mountains," and a piece of Afro-Cuban exuberance by Amadeo Roldan, "La Rebambaramba".
Explains NVA Head of Design James Johnson, the biggest challenge to designing the suit involved the creation of a rugged lighting system that could express the rhythm and movement of running, walking, dancing or cycling.
Meschino also noted the exploration of hip-hop and dancehall rhythms set to "rough and rugged fast-paced raps".
The rugged but thin-sounding band puts reverb, distortion and habanera-rock rhythm under lyrics that register as pointlessly haughty and fantastically banal.
Mr. Weston's African Rhythms Trio, which also includes the percussionist Neil Clarke, sounded rugged and vital on a Bobby Benson tune descriptively titled "Niger Mambo".
These rugged, barrel-chested people survived the vast flux of Ice Age rhythms, hunting and building shelters.
