The phrase "shifting backdrop" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a constantly changing or evolving background or setting. Example: As the protagonist walked through the city, she couldn't help but notice the shifting backdrop of buildings and streets, each one telling its own story.
She wasn't quite singing in the conventional sense; it was more like she was throwing her voice against a shifting backdrop of ecstatic, wailing synths.
Cunningham's approach to painting did not change much over the years, but his travels up and down the Atlantic coast provided a constantly shifting backdrop.
And that goes for Mexico, too; Cuarón's view of his own nation, of the shifting backdrop behind his principal figures, is lit with both homage and rant.
Because Stew's aesthetic and moral awakening takes place against a shifting backdrop, no other characters stick around long enough to claim a full role in the proceedings, despite perfectly pitched comic performances from the whole cast.
Less than halfway through the song, the rhythm section and the sunlit, jangling guitar figure drop out entirely, never to return: the remaining four minutes of the song feature Kiwanuka's vocals – pained and doused in effects – playing out against a shifting backdrop of strings, piano and frayed, distorted guitar.
All three players were sublimely relaxed, but Mr. Lovano, on tenor saxophone, kept closest to the decorum of traditional jazz playing, retaining swing phrasing in his solos, moving one step at a time through the shifting backdrops.
In other words, the sex helps prop up the dual structure of the book and adds rasa (specifically the rasa of sringara, or erotic love) to the swirling mix of mirrored opposites, transitory illusions, and sensations experienced across and against the shifting backdrops of time and two rivers.
For the remixes Baird says he changed "the timbre, the color of the sound, the shifting backdrops and the overall sonic density.
Against these spectacular, constantly shifting backdrops, infiltrated by ambient sounds and intentional music, the drama of Bush's highly charged movement is meant to renew our sense of self, our sense of place and community.
A Disobedient Girl, by Ru Freeman (Viking, £12.99) Two intersecting narratives from Sri Lanka give a rich overview of the role of women against a shifting political backdrop.
The straightforward grime tracks are uniformly great: they reach twin pinnacles on Crime Riddim's constantly shifting, claustrophobic backdrop of clanks and martial horn blasts, and Man, shot through with a wailing, shivering guitar sample.
