Sentence examples for using traditional instruments from inspiring English sources
N'Dour described his new album as "using traditional instruments to create a new style".
The recordings Led Zeppelin are releasing this year were made on the same trip with professionals from the Bombay Symphony Orchestra using traditional instruments.
Using traditional instruments and acoustic guitar, her songs pull together regional styles; her voice is gentler and more melancholy than the hortatory griot style.
Using traditional instruments as the foundation, I introduce a new and modern musical voice to help the young generation develop an appreciation for Vietnamese traditional arts and culture".
Certainly, one of the strangest sights of 2004 was this brilliant journalist performing the art of fiction, using traditional instruments, in the campuses of 21st-century America.
It's a far-reaching meditation on folk materials, by turns reflective and vigorous, using traditional instruments as well as occasional overdubbing and computer manipulation to rejoin two disparate branches of Persian music.
Mr. Plant has been a longtime fan of Ms. Krauss and her string band Union Station, which uses traditional instruments for music that's steeped in old-timey and bluegrass styles but not bound by them.
You can hear a similar approach -- and a very different sound -- on "Phrenology" (MCA), the tantalizing new album from the Roots, an eight-piece hip-hop band that uses traditional instruments in place of turntables and samplers.
When they first formed in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia in 2004, their ramshackle DIY approach to creating electronic music set them apart from their indie rock contemporaries, who used traditional instruments and straightforward song structures.
In a separate project Philharmonic musicians guided students in composing their own works using traditional Chinese instruments and the Western ones played by the orchestra.
The four older contemporary works played on this program, all using traditional Japanese instruments, also fitted with the themes of the evening, especially Sukeyasu Shiba's "Winds From Ikaruga," a 1991 piece for kugo and sho, in which the composer imagines the sounds of ancient instruments in a Buddhist pagoda wafting over the walls to the village.
