It's nearly synesthetic: A lilting melody looks like a bird.
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The serene and lilting notes floated through the empty hall.
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You get this very lilting feel, but it looks like Stravinsky.
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Nikolov is bald with a kindly face and a lilting voice.
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Tosca's lilting phrases anticipate a life of safety, privacy and love.
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He was a rangy guy with long hair and lilting Louisiana accent.
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Slightly higher, pitchwise, is the lilting whine that he deploys for derision.
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Arabic, addressing Sutrallah in the lilting Cairo accent she picked up during
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Five performers danced the wheeled pieces around the space in lilting arcs.
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MC Fred Hill is nearly unintelligible, his words becoming a hazy, lilting song.
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He often spoke with the lilting cadences and fiery passion of a preacher.
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The lilting but incongruous notes of a flute sometimes accompanied the macabre demonstration.
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Richly-colored plants hang in terracotta pots, showing off their lilting green limbs.
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The lilting vibe of Pilot's "Magic" is fine, but is there another level?
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They make gauzy, ruminative music that waxes existential over lilting hip-hop beats.
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The music cue is delicate and sweet, leads lilting gently against warm, fuzzy chords.
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It was sweet and lilting, a little breathy but not in an annoying way.
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The words and music in Akshay Roy's "Meri Pyaari Bindu" are lilting and evocative.
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A woman with a lilting Scottish accent asked to take a photo with him.
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Even on a lilting ballad like Barbara Mason's "Yes, I'm Ready," she was everywhere.
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The playing was equally stylish in the animated Presto, lilting Menuetto and racing finale.
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They are all tall and fine-boned, with lilting voices and beautiful, liquid movements.
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So said the voice, in a lilting British accent that barely registered above a whisper.
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I felt from an early age that poetry was something mysterious, something playful and lilting.
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The gal in the lilting dress and the crazy shoes prevails, and books a room.
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She reminds me of my aunties: their lilting accents, their maternal gravitas, their frank, hearty laughs.
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The lilting voices of the McIntyres immediately begin singing about tonight and who belongs to whom.
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The prose is lilting and rhythmic — it practically begs to be read aloud — but never flowery.
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As ever, it twists Frank's high string arrangements into country slides and lilting cymbal-splash breaths.
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" And then, that lilting Bajan accent said the most beautiful words I've ever heard: "Of course, girl!
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"He loved his friends, he would be there for them," she said, in a lilting Trini accent.
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Chaabi is the most popular music in Algeria, a danceable folk-pop: mournful, lilting and wedding appropriate.
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He shapes poignant characters with lilting right-hand melodies while forging rich harmonic progressions with the left.
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J.P. The master pianist Erroll Garner was known for his plush, fluent harmonies and his lilting fluidity.
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After all, Bach composed that monumental set of 30 variations on a lilting theme for solo harpsichord.
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What remained was indeed vinegar, but it still tasted overpowering rather than gentle and lilting, like Tony's.
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"People are buying $35 tickets," Mailhot says, her voice lilting up in disbelief before breaking into a laugh.
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The lilting guitar chord progression in the song's pre-chorus offers a bit of hope in the darkness.
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The gathered men are all from Guyana, and speak in the lilting accents of their South American homeland.
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Lifted from her forthcoming EP (due to drop sometime this summer), "Alright" is a lilting, lush pop song.
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His plaintive, lilting delivery makes every line funny – and they're funny lines to begin with ("a freaky circle").
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Add some synthesizers and Chris Stewart's low, lilting voice and you've got yourself a happy-sad dance party.
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He settles in immediately, finding the lilting poetry and the gently swung high grace of the whole thing.
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Elves and fairies have long been depicted as having ear cartilage that peaks in a lilting sylvan way.
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The lilting, light-textured yet rhythmically assertive sound of the band became the gold standard for Hawaiian music.
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Bearded and stocky, Zohar has a lilting baritone and an open, histrionic personality that comes across as charming.
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This lilting Nashville rock trio gives new meaning to the label "easy listening" with their tempered, dreamy psychedelia.
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His lilting voice and instrumentation sound full, adding more richness to his spare melodies and low-key lyrics.
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From Mr. Hagen's haunting cadenza, Ms. Andsnes segues into Beethoven's final variation, a lilting, ingeniously ornate minuet, played beautifully.
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There's a country crossover vibe to Maddie Poppe that's down to her lilting accent and some killer pop production.
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This eclecticism should leave his catalog seeming scattered, even incoherent, but everything is unified by his distinctive, lilting vocals.
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It's meticulously choreographed but not so complex that it distracts from the lilting electro-funk or Monáe's inescapable charisma.
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Lucid and lilting, Puma Blue's dusky pop sounds like something snatched from within the furthest reaches of his mind.
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She was a memory to behold, flying down the track with that Afro hairstyle, that lilting stride and name.
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On the album, Mr. Sosa ornaments the space around Mr. Keita's playing with lilting undercurrents and deftly studded terrain.
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Everyone has lilting Irish accents and a gentle sense of humor, and Common Sense Media even says it's educational.
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" First, Donny has to put together a group, which he does in the lilting, satisfying "I Know a Guy.
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Ferak is slight, with a lilting voice and a round, bespectacled face framed by a tightly wound black shayla.
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A 1973 book, The Secret Life of Plants, even suggested that plants enjoy the lilting sounds of classical music.
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And in the burgeoning world of cybersex, you could have sex with strangers without revealing your face or lilting cadence.
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With her electric guitar and her lilting vocals, Bruland lures you away into another world, no matter what your troubles.
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The new project sees Tilden delving into noise pop, his mercurial croon floating atop lo-fi orchestrations and lilting melodies.
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Arne's music turned out to be unremarkable, largely in lilting/skipping triple-time, with decorous but dreary 18th-century utility.
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The song is as lilting and gracefully swinging as any of The Nubatones catalogue, with verse and chorus equally catchy.
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The song's verses are gentle, lilting things that rise and rise into the roar of a chorus steeped in anger.
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He speaks with a lilting affect, but moves with a robotic determination, as if following some hidden video game programming.
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As key phrases arise, Ms. Magic will begin strumming and humming, weaving those lines of dialogue into a lilting melody.
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Still, Harry Bicket evoked the scene through the plush, lilting playing he drew from the ensemble in this crucial moment.
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In "Yu Ko" (1965), for mixed ensemble, he drew lilting sounds from brass instruments that create a sense of haunting melancholy.
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Pocahontas County has a distinctly southern feel: locals speak with a warm, lilting drawl; Civil War trenches still dot the hillsides.
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Then last year Millionhands became a label as well, associating Mangan with lovely lilting house releases from the likes of Brasstronaut.
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" Over atmospheric guitars and lilting strings, she sings of a "love that's drunk, that's half-lit/An insult worse than scars.
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Friedman has matched that sensibility here with songs that slide from lilting, gaslight-era melodiousness into a jagged, more contemporary anxiety.
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During one stretch, she found common ground between two of Brahms's searching intermezzos and a few of Chopin's mercurial, lilting mazurkas.
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I love her lilting voice, which soars on the chorus and the slow, shuffling drumbeat that's holding the whole production together.
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The lilting timbre of his name is like a lament hailed by his companions, among them, Paparazzo, a voracious press photographer.
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"I love hearing the waves crash on the beach," she tells him, her voice now lilting, high-pitched, upended, and fried.
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The messages were often encoded to fool the censors; Mr. Bosco's lilting tunes and rhythms made every song seem to float.
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And there's still something old-fashioned, almost Broadway-ish, about the song: It's a lilting waltz, not four-on-the-floor.
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In its frame were shelves of bottled water and, with a lilting voice, it encouraged passers-by to grab a drink.
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Ms. Auerbach's rich harmonic language and feeling for color came through vividly when the music shifted into a pastoral, lilting stretch.
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Her lilting Italian drew locals into our orbit, where waiters poured us free limoncello and butchers gave us tastes of prosciutto.
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Paired with the Darkstar's lilting but unsettled melodies, the album is another exercise in the resentful, disenfranchised reality fizzing underneath the veneer.
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Tears of happiness streamed down my cheeks as I felt a deep sense of gratitude for the lilting ocean all around me.
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Day's lilting voice, wholesome blond beauty and ultra-bright smile brought her a string of hits, first on records, later in Hollywood.
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The first single, "New York," was released in June, but the new Technicolor video spotlights St. Vincent's lilting voice and wicked smirk.
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Weaving English folk, lilting Americana, and mushroom-induced psychedelia, Hexvessel are The Doors misplaced and found wandering the vast forests of Finland.
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Yellow Magic Orchestra's eponymous first release sent up the West's trite imitations of oriental music, replacing lilting percussion with synthesised electronic beats.
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"Half Asleep" has vocalist Chris Keating singing in an affected, lilting cadence that brings to mind a court jester with a harp.
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These players conveyed the symphonic sweep and turbulence of the first movement of the First Quartet, and excelled in its lilting Intermezzo.
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The only company I had was fleeting: speedy Korean kayakers singing folk songs; at least that's what the lilting melodies sounded like.
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But in the main guesthouse Tuesday, lilting reggae wafted through the open air bar, as government relief workers tapped away on laptops.
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The winds came in first, with a fey, lilting figure, light but energetic, like the sound of water splashing in a fountain.
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From somewhere on the nearby road drifted the lilting music you hear everywhere you go in Jamaica, the soundtrack of the island.
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PARELES One of this year's most crucial reggaeton songs has been Sech's "Otro Trago," a beautifully lilting number about dancing away heartbreak.
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At the start, the music (inspired by the writings of Marilynne Robinson) is genial with bits of breezy tunes and lilting riffs.
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He began with Beethoven's "Andante Favori," a lilting, lyrical yet elusive piece, and the original slow movement of Beethoven's mighty "Waldstein" Sonata.
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"Sleep Late, My Lady Friend" is a strong early gem, with cello and upright bass sliding up against a warm, lilting vocal melody.
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Scored to a lilting piano soundtrack, the beauty of Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park is the perfect soothing balm to a sweaty summer.
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Vile leads a lilting rendition of "Outta the Woodwork," its message of never trying too hard a natural fit for his yawning voice.
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Here, Krlic employs the human voice and traditional Nordic instruments to craft slow-moving pieces that dive between lilting melody and atonal mayhem.
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The pentatonic scale and subtle, lilting phrasings of kunqu give way to a world of pitch and melody in which almost anything goes.
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His breakout song, "My Dawg," which arrived last summer on the mixtape Harder Than Hard, is a lilting anthem with an indelible hook.
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The lilting match looked just enough like a real fight, though clearly aimed at blood-free "yes, and…" improv instead of intentional damage.
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Fitting, then, that the Arkansas singer's sharply observed songwriting and lilting voice make her closer to a country purist than genre-disrupting revolutionary.
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He begins by playing the opening aria at a gently lilting tempo and with pristine clarity, though a hint of intensity hovers within.
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He often darkens the mood by incorporating exaggerated sounds, like high-volume slurping or chewing, or juxtaposing lilting classical music over unsettling images.
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This was a powerful, logical "Zarathustra," lithe and bombast-avoidant in a thrillingly controlled opening and airy in the lilting passages later on.
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I watched, rapt, as the Ruins of Friendship Orchestra performed a lilting, wandering, live score replete with harp, strings, banjo, and ethereal vocals.
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Everything is sweet in this track, from the wavy island synths to her lilting vocals to the unwavering confidence she brings to the lyrics.
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If you clicked play and thought her lilting alto sounds familiar, you may have heard (or seen) her on season 2 of True Detective.
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It's a beautifully understated record that showcases the Kansas City-born singer's rich and lilting voice without interrupting the lyrical simplicity of the songs.
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The song that's playing, "Higgs," suddenly shifts from a soft, lilting thing to a heated club track; it sounds like an alarm going off.
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The sound of the record is appropriately in higher spirits, built around twittering soul samples, lilting strings, lens-flare dub echoes, and pointillist chorales.
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" O'Riordan is not lilting when she does that sharp break from chest voice to head voice in the second syllable of the word "zombie.
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The papery, lilting vocal harmonies float and weave like ghosts, beckoning you closer, closer, and closer still, until you're fully enraptured by their spell.
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She draws out the lilting, dancing elegance from this wistful music, while also highlighting daring elements of the piece that show Bach's timeless genius.
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The mood was more candied than mysterious in the second-movement "night music," its lilting cello section feeling genuinely nostalgic rather than tangily sardonic.
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It's no easy feat making an LP this bare-bones compelling, but it works due to the center staging of Pratt's breathy, lilting vocals.
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During Slowdive, I carry my boots and rock my feet in the sand, floored by the band's lilting grace—still tender after all these years.
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Ireland he evoked from his study in Devon, a canvas of whitewashed houses, lilting brogues, stout and soft rain that seemed ancient, rather than modern.
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It ends with "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" a lilting song written by Frank Loesser in 1947 and reworked throughout the 20th Century.
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Yet all we hear from the White House are the lilting strains of "Stand By Your Man" as the fox continues to guard the henhouse.
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Apparently the lyrics got him in trouble for dropping Taylor Swift's name, but who cares when you could just play that lilting dancehall hook again?
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Majestic shots of the countryside set to a soft, lilting soundtrack could make any place look like paradise, but there's still something special about Sweden.
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Recommended for ages 4 through 5493, the 45-minute piece unfolds unusually, through imaginative puppetry (especially shadow puppetry), dance, acrobatic movement and a lilting score.
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In lighter scenes, Dvorak evokes Polish music with lilting, mazurka-infused choral music; he draws upon Slavic modal harmonies to suggest Russian idioms and character.
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The whole thing is full of glorious airy pop sounds, her lithe, lilting vocals guiding us through life's adversities like the light waves of a lake.
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The video's soundtrack, audible through headphones, features overlapping tracks of children reading the nursery rhymes and the scriptures; the two merge to form a lilting rhythm.
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It is their responsibility to think about who they are most often choosing to support with lilting, prolific praise, and how objective their choices really are.
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The original version from the 1991 film, performed by Angela Lansbury, is lilting, sweet, and a little plaintive — all excellent qualities for a fairy-tale anthem.
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Set in a lilting 3/4 time signature, this languorous, meandering theme perfectly captures the vertiginous state of suspended animation that often accompanies falling in love.
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On the trail, Ms. Holton is a staple at her husband's side, monitoring his speeches, giving him encouraging smiles and offering remarks in her lilting accent.
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It means treading into the world of amaro: a lilting, romantic name, subtly suggestive of love, for a class of liquor that's vexingly difficult to delineate.
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It invites everyone to Pillowland, a magical place that some will recognize from the lilting tune (and picture book) by the children's pop star Laurie Berkner.
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She varies her singing approach, here projecting a note with the blazing, bell-like clarity of Neko Case, there summoning her voice's sweeter, more lilting qualities.
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That didn't stop Benjamin DeJesus, 50, from lugging his Mexican harp onto an A train on a recent weekday and breaking into a lilting folk song.
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A stout bald man with a scraggly white beard and wine-dark lips, Slobodchikoff speaks with a gentler and more lilting voice than you might expect.
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"I've been a big fan of yours ever since you were at the helm of … Aviato," he says, pronouncing it with Erlich's slightly lilting ersatz accent.
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Sicilian-born William Oliveri has worked there since 1978: His charismatic demeanor and lilting accent have made William, now head bartender, the true face of the establishment.
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Gevers has a lilting accent and speaks fluently in the modular capsules and rehearsed-casual delivery of someone wearing a wireless headset microphone in a theatrical round.
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The result is eerie and isolates the script—in one scene, Finley uses the lilting meter of a Woodie Guthrie song to intone Phelan and Trump simultaneously.
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One is that in 2016 he picked up a new job—he's now the lead guitarist for Real Estate, a band his lilting playing fits quite naturally.
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After Sesto sings, " Guardami " ("Look at me"), the clarinettist offers lilting phrases amid expectant pauses; it seems that the object of Sesto's love has become music itself.
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She doesn't read for what happens next, I think, even as she has taken on her preschool teacher's lilting "What's going to happen?" before turning a page.
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" PEOPLE was on-hand for the nuptials, which included a "lilting ukulele," tropical fruit punch toasts and a Keith Urban song — "Making Memories — to accompany the cake-cutting.
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Cranes were an English goth/dream pop band that combined almost industrial rhythms with the lilting atmospherics of a string quartet in the court of the Faerie Queen.
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"No" weaves together lilting cumbia rhythms, and samples of Peruvian harpist and dialogue from a recorded conversation between a young Jaar and his father, into a ghostly collage.
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But part of what makes that video such fun to watch is that "Soy Yo" has a lilting buoyancy to it that very few songs in 2016 had.
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In his Met debut, the young American conductor Ward Stare gave a lilting, relaxed reading of the score, occasionally overindulgent of slower, lyrical moments but never too syrupy.
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One of the first, Proteus—a collaboration with Ed Key—had the player exploring a procedurally generated island, Kanaga's lilting soundtrack bending naturally to the seasons, weather and landscape.
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And if its lilting bounce reminds you of "Poinciana," a signature tune for Ahmad Jamal, that's purely intentional: Mr. Wendel wrote his piece in a spirit of fond tribute.
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In many ways it's classic Spektor, lilting and lovely with percussive twists and glossy pop polish, but "Bleeding Heart" also embraces nimble strings and surprising synths that skip throughout.
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Even an ugly construction elevator, lifting and dropping against the growing bones of a new ivory tower on West 57th Street, borrowed the lilting grace of a conductor's wrist.
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Recent research has also found that songbirds are more susceptible to meeting such ends, suggesting that they may unwittingly lure one another to their death with their lilting calls.
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The slow, halting melody conveys both his longing and his desolation; a curiously lilting bass line for pizzicato strings seems to mock Ariodante with a hint of Ginevra's fickleness.
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Like James Blake and the xx, Sampha creates achingly beautiful soul and R&B music with heavy electronic influences, and he tops his lilting songs with strikingly personal storytelling.
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"Originally I was thinking about the material, how to make something that does not bend seem as flexible as paper," Ms. Saban, 36, said in her lilting Argentine accent.
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On the beach, men and women talked in the lilting tones of spoken Vietnamese while repairing circular coracles, the basket-like boats that have been used here for centuries.
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I've already stopped really thinking of it as 'music' per se — this song is just there now, just lilting and drifting, drifting and lilting, the eternal plash of the shore, like 5Live playing faintly from a radio in the kitchen while you mow the lawn, like a husband you fell out of love with a decade ago murmuring about the Brexit over another dinner of ham-wrapped chicken breasts and new potatoes.
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His influence is particularly heard on the lead single, "Give A Little;" were the lilting synths sound more like Kurstin's recent work with Beck than Rogers' classical-meets-folky vibe.
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Critics of the cluster of afrobeats subgenres often say that it 'all sounds the same,' pointing to the lilting xylophone-like sample stacked in the backbone of most song melodies.
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The end result is a tale with a plot that feels soulless and meandering but like any good fanfiction, still holds a faint imprint of Rowling's usual lilting whimsical charm.
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Composer Jerry Herman's lilting title song proved a phenomenon, thanks to its jazzy rendition by Louis Armstrong, whose single unseated The Beatles right off the top of the pop charts.
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Following his stirring debut track "Hostage," Noisey is pleased to premiere "Amansworld," a lilting, psych-kissed tune that sounds like lust and anxiety baked in the late-afternoon summer heat.
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Over the course of 11 stanzas the reader becomes complicit in the sadistic ride, propelled by the lilting meter and roped in, as it were, by the simple rhyme scheme.
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Then, playing us into the weekend, we've been wearing out an hour or so of lilting obscurities in LQQK mix, and a Boiler Room live set from the untouchable Lone.
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Dr. Mark Peterson, the soft-spoken veterinarian who runs the clinic, opened the door to Nubi's condo and greeted the 12-year-old tom in a lilting, high-pitched voice.
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Trio Matamoros was a seminal group in the rise of "son," the lilting style born in an eastern province, Oriente (and later made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club).
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"Pay No Mind," with its lilting guitar line and spare drums, could be a lost Jesus & Mary Chain cut, shuffling and sighing at the pace of its central waning relationship.
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From the lilting lover's rock of most recent release "Cruel" through to their debut single "Ode 2 Joey," sincerity runs through their output like a stick of half-eaten seaside rock.
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"Cloud" is a perfect, gentle little work of art that uses unconventionally sketch-like illustrations and a lilting Joe Hisaishi score to suggest the underlying emotions, rather than spelling them out.
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In Tuesday's semi-final, Portuguese singer Salvador Sobral drew some of the loudest applause with his song 'For The Both Of Us' - a lilting, jazz-style ballad written by his sister.
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The London-based songwriter and producer has been working under the name Palmistry since 2011, slowly shaping and honing that wisp of a voice over punctured drums and lilting keyboard melodies.
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Its music is all drifting and lilting, calming and coaxing, too, perfectly complementing a moment's pause by a Cliffside as you pan the camera around slowly, and drink in the view.
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Over the years she has woven disco, new wave, post punk, art-pop, industrial, reggae, and gospel into a tight sound that is distinctly hers, threaded together with lilting, powerful vocals.
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Here the dance keeps drifting into madness, where lilting rhythms turn frenzied and chords become distorted, as the music tries to depict AIDS dementia, often a last stage of the illness.
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From valley to valley, village to village, you'll still encounter mostly German, some Italian with a lilting accent, as well as Ladin, an umlaut-heavy language native to this remote region.
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Backed by his six-piece Zincfence Redemption band, he presented one of his most popular songs, a lilting number called "Smile Jamaica," as a call to arms in a cultural battle.
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Mostly, she raps in Xitsonga—the South African language spoken in her home province of Limpopo—and her flow is rapid and lilting, a perfect accompaniment to the icy, upbeat instrumentation.
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Soothing in several ways, Clairo's music combines acoustic and electronic modes of calm: the fragile, lilting, homemade quality of lo-fi bedroom confessionals, and the warm, shimmering, layered surfaces of trance music.
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Its latest single, "Out of My Head," premiering on Noisey below, is a testament to the group's cinematic influences, a lilting piece of orchestral pop about confronting anxieties that also assuages them.
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Album opener "Lilybelle" presents a gorgeous, lilting interlude from violinist Jessy Greene and bassist William Tutton, on a bowed upright bass, before guitarist Daniel Keenan and drummer Kevin Fitzgerald come crashing in.
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"Don't You Worry 'Bout Me" starts with the piano and organ of an old-fashioned gospel song and turns into lilting, upbeat soul as Mr. Forchhammer sings about transcending sorrow via careerism.
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But its guitar grooves are a Pan-African blend, drawing on the thumb-pianolike guitar picking of older Zimbabwean pop, on the lilting rumba of Congolese soukous and on hints of rock.
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With his Harlem-Kingston Express, he brings together musicians versed in both reggae and straight-ahead jazz, creating a brew that's danceable and lilting and often ramps up from hypnotic to electrifying.
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Already the line "I want to run my fingers up your pussy," delivered in the track's lilting, upbeat melody over a pounding synth beat is set to make the commenters go wild.
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"Sinner's Prayer" is a collaboration with Father John Misty, who brings a touch of his lilting, pastoral sound to what's otherwise a fairly simple "I'm a heartbreaker, and I'm sorry for it" song.
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Nothing much to see here—Kanye and Young Sugar Bomb himself vibing in black-and-white, aided by a very literal animated interpretation of selected lyrics from the lilting, lovely Late Registration opener.
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Teen leads Lilette Suarez (Moana's Auli'i Cravalho) and Robbie Thorne (Damon J. Gillespie) have a date-not-date so magical, it can only be backed by the lilting sounds of dreamy indie pop.
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It's got one of those lilting and soaring choruses designed for throwing your head back and shouting along to—and would slot in nicely with just about any VHS road trip film montage.
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From the dewdrop xylophone notes that open the song to Teng's lilting vibrato, perhaps no melody is as significant as "The Moon Represents My Heart" for for making new immigrants long for home.
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The Kathy Acker-featuring "Winter" comes on like the proto-minimal wave gem you never knew you needed, while "Summer" is a lilting and uplifting bit of piano-heavy dancefloor-ready pseudo-krautrock.
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It also highlights a funny thing about their gang vocal approach—the lilting close harmonies and stacked melodies—which is that even songs about sipping illicit substances from styrofoam cups sound absolutely heavenly.
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I got a connection clear as crystal, and reached Mr. Christian's daughter, who gave me (in a lilting accent that to my uneducated ears sounded pure New Zealand) the biographical details I sought.
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There's a bit of a Frou Frou vibe to this languid, romantic beat, but her slow, lilting delivery is so much more rooted in Brazilian music than indie pop could ever hope to be.
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Nominally she's a singer-songwriter, applying a voice labeled both lilting and gravelly but that I'd just peg as adult to songs that always make room for feelings we needn't assume are always hers.
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Her in-person voice is high, brittle, lilting, with traces of the Bronx ("the vowels hang on," as she has said): pretty well the opposite of the emphatic and authoritative voice on the page.
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"The scene feels like it's booming, but this is a chaotic boom that has had a lot of negatives," he said, drawing out his vowels and emphasizing high notes in the region's lilting accent.
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It relies on this lilting chorus that goes "keep the things you cherish close," a reminder that the digital sphere can allow for connection and intimacy amid the chaos of the world around us.
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And there were many other forgotten shows with penetrating music that MacDermot wrote, along with soundtracks, albums and a lilting lullaby, "Cover Up My Head," sung by the McGarrigle Sisters, soulful Canadians like him.
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The crooning, the lilting hook, the boasting rap verse: All are vintage territory for the pair, who had a series of Top 10 collaborations in the early 20163s that Miranda essentially transposed back to 1780.
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Instead of the hot oil Kahramana poured into the jars to burn the 40 thieves hiding there, Mr. Hikmat's work has her pouring water that gushes up and down, forming a mesh of lilting fountains.
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"The way he framed it, I thought it was a female, and I thought it was a blind date," Boshier recalls on a gray Wednesday afternoon at LA's Night Gallery with a lilting Portsmouth accent.
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In a lilting voice, she recalled the winter of 1965, when her group of friends, just starting a band, pitched their tents on a campsite nestled within the heart of the Virgin Islands National Park.
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"Madiba Riddim," cascading through a lilting guitar hook that shares its trebly tone and bittersweet prettiness with several African pop genres, also showcases Drake's gentle soulfulness as a singer responding to rhythmic nuance and kinetic motion.
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The video also clears up another mystery: we find out what the new mom calls her kid, as we hear her lilting voice say "Baby True" over and over again to get her little peanut's attention.
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With its lilting piano and a melancholy streak that suggests a love that "hurts so bad but feels so good," this Unbreakable single is a more complex swirl of emotions than you might expect from Backstreet.
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This time, she brought a lilting, sleek maturity to the role, which gave breadth to her turns, at times so fast that she seemed to lift off the floor in a swirl of pale blue tulle.
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Shivalingappa is a master of the quicksilver, lilting southern-Indian classical-dance form Kuchipudi, but she has also appeared in the works of several contemporary choreographers, including Pina Bausch, and theatre directors, such as Peter Brook.
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But with its varied cast and its lilting confidence in basic human decency, this "As You Like It" offers a utopian vision of a society that favors acceptance over division, honesty over obfuscation, grace over meanness.
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It's also, hands down, one of the prettiest films Pixar has ever made: The warm glow of the stars pops against the deep indigo sky, and their soft tinkle is complemented by a lilting Giacchino score.
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Its close, lilting melody, which tumbles through just a handful of notes in a hypnotic-yet-unsettling cycle is a perfect match for both Nuut's dizzy string work and the off-balance arpeggiations of Ruum's electronic experimentation.
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The lilting, summery track was produced by Boi-1da, a frequent Drake collaborator, and features Rihanna in her lovelorn mode: "All that I wanted from you was to give me something that I never had," she sings.
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WITH ITS lilting banjo, cowboy theme and lyrics like "Ridin' on a tractor" and "Wrangler on my booty", not to mention an extremely catchy refrain, Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" should be a country-music hit.
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In Heartbeat Across the World, the pulses took the form of lilting piano notes akin to a minimal, freeform instrumental piece, but the biometric data could potentially be shaped into any number of aural or visual accompaniments.
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Whether it's the lilting but insistent grace of "Silver Lining," the gentle melancholy of "White Witches," or the more full-throttle, chugging melody of "Haunt," it's a record that ebbs and flows seamlessly between euphoria and melancholy.
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Over the last several years, her work evolved into depictions of more universal mythologies and populated landscapes: tree spirits; goddesses; lilting, attenuated flora and fauna – first in oil paint, and now with a combination of enamel and oil.
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Robson was also the official starter for the European Tour, and so his lilting tone, which many top players gamely attempted to imitate in a send-off video, became synonymous with golf on this side of the Atlantic.
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The woven grid is de facto imperfect due to its process, which pulls some cords tighter than others, resulting in a lilting pattern of slightly varied cell sizes and slightly off-kilter intersections of vertical and horizontal cords.
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At the festival, Syd introduced "Wanna Be," a lilting, gentle proposal off the band's latest record, "Hive Mind," with a story: "I played this song for a girl, and now she's my girl," she said, flashing a grin.
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Ms. Sankoff and Mr. Hein, who wrote the music as well as the book and lyrics, know that there's nothing like a steady Gaelic drumbeat and a lilting pennywhistle to turn a skeptical audience into Pavlov's slobbering dogs.
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An art movie such as "Moonlight," whatever its graces and gifts, won't fulfill this mandate as emphatically as, oh, let's say a bright, lilting musical comedy about ambitious, romantic young artists in Los Angeles seeking both fame and fulfillment.
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The smooth, lilting pop sounds of "Bellyache," which begins with "Ocean Eyes"–like melodies, belie the fact that the song's story is told from the perspective of someone who has killed her friends and is feeling guilty about it.
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Now they've teamed up with producer Phil Ek (The Shins, Fleet Foxes, Modest Mouse) in Seattle to record a new tune, and the result is all swoony hooks and lilting melodies that can't help but stick in your brain.
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Mr. Deluc, working with the cinematographer Pierre Cottereau (and a lilting, moody score by Warren Ellis), emphasizes Tahiti's natural light and raw scenic beauty, as Gauguin would have seen it before refracting it into bold colors and rounded edges.
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San Diego garage-pop duo The Dabbers are picking up where the Pixies left off—both in their lilting garage pop jams, and, more literally, as the soundtrack to the trailer for Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club 2 comics collection.
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To wit: This rendition of the lilting "Samba Do Suenho" — which he first recorded in 1966 with the song's author, the vibes player Cal Tjader — holds onto the tune's core rhythmic pattern and its coy tempo, starting off nonchalantly.
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She forged a trans-Atlantic musical partnership with Javier Limón, a Spanish producer and songwriter who brought out her affinity for flamenco and wrote "Voy" ("I Go"), a lean, lilting song about picking up and moving into the unknown.
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The base of the jovial groove as the little group walked was a lilting, repeating riff on the kora, the 21-string harp-lute that a musician played with its base propped against his torso, plucking with his thumbs.
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The lilting, soaring women's voices tug me upwards, trilling and wafting, and the bass voices come in like an eruption, and the mixed chorus strides forth like an entire nation picking up its weight to move forward in lockstep.
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Though you can hear his characters pushing at the constraints of Michael's limited viewpoint, voices lilting upward in polite conversations and flailing in frustration, Noonan keeps his voice steady, in the even-keeled tones of a particularly good customer service representative.
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This new tape, Mist and Light, is firmly in the same lane, offering four lengthy pieces full of water sounds and lilting synth lines meant to evoke and explain the half-light of the liminal space between wake and sleep.
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The first season contains free-standing skits, including one set in the Caliphate's recording studio where Bighdaddy directs a whiny Australian jihadi to include the lilting lines "detonate them…destroy them…" in the chorus, to give it a "feminine touch".
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This is, for the most part, lilting and loose music, heavy on reggae influence, with a sense of playfulness that matched the experimental freedom of the era — collaborators include luminaries like John Lydon of the Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd.
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Born into both occupation and exile, it's entirely understandable that the Sahel to Cuba to Spain singer Aziza Brahim, while making some of the most sublime and lilting music in (ugh) "world" music arena, maintains her chief concerns; return, freedom.
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There's a premium new number from Awful Records regular ABRA, another acid-tinge roller from the Bicep boys working with Hammer and 1080p have carried on their stellar recent form with the burnt, lilting wash of Perfume Advert's "Mirror Shield".
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The straight-laced, well-mannered disposition has become a key part of his campaign aesthetic and appeal to his supporters, the slow, lilting cadence and measured matter-of-factness of his speech reminiscent of someone doing their best Obama impression.
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Meanwhile, earlier that same season, contestant Ashley Salter earned plenty of screen time with her erratic, out-of-context one-liners, which The Bachelor underscored with lilting musical flourishes and intercut with talking heads of the other girls describing her as crazy.
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I decided that two of my favorite movements are back to back in Op. 130: the lilting grace of the fourth movement, Alla danza tedesca — "like a German dance" — followed by the Cavatina, a prayerful movement that could bail out an atheist.
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Take, for example, the interplay between Burke's voice and Waters's guitar, in which the latter doubles as Burke's back up vocalist, literally singing into his hollow body guitar so its sensitive pickups capture and distorting his wails to underscore her lilting delivery.
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The camera glides contemplatively across the skyline from above, while Cousins delivers his slow, lilting voice-over commentary—first made famous in his sprawling documentary, The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011), a 15-hour tour of motion pictures by an uncompromising cinephile.
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Guitarist Oscar Jerome, who wrote the song on a rooftop in Gambia, takes control of the first half with a few lilting hooks that give way to a more pronounced, staccato solo, though nothing that might nudge the listener out of a trance.
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The video for "The Temple of Dendur" features much the same approach, but the music here is a bit more lilting and there is something profound here in this gallery, like ancient gods who are sleeping and one may not want to wake.
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" But she looks kindly on the "lilting forms" of Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, a swooping, curving building that she describes as a place in which "the human body's presence and movement in space [are] the animating features in a design.
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On Thursday, the festival's second program opened with the splendid Mark Morris Dance Group in one of the choreographer's most lilting, idyllic works: "Eleven," named for the Mozart piano concerto to which it is set and part of his trilogy "Mozart Dances" (2006).
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Among the highlights were the slumber music from "Atys," with gauzy, lilting orchestral strains accompanying Aaron Sheehan's floating vocal lines, and the buoyant final chorus from "Les Fontaines," which renders the jubilant, upward-surging momentum of the decorative park fountains in full spritz.
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Ewald and Lukens can write ragged or lilting or fierce or dejected riffs on command, rip them up with suitably serrated backup chords, and, that's right, carry a tune, albeit in flat adenoidal yowls whose occasional slip into whiner territory conveys humble human limitation.
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At this concert, part of the Jazz Gallery Mentoring Series at the National Jazz Museum, he will play in a quartet with Morgan Guerin, a full-toned young tenor saxophonist from New Orleans, whose electrified originals are built on lilting balladry and dreamlike crescendos.
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But it was also the year Jorge took the act on the road — complete with his Team Zissou uniform — proving that no matter how many times "Portuguese David Bowie covers" makes someone do a double-take, Jorge's lilting, tropical versions prove the universal appeal of Bowie's songs.
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DāM-FunK and Nite Jewel first began their series of collaborations nearly seven years ago when the two (as Nite-Funk) dropped the single, "Am I Gonna Make It." Last summer, they offered "Can You Read Me?" featuring their signature brand of lilting vocals and throwback synths.
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"Hannibal — A Bloody Romp Through Murder and Romance" by Amber Thomas Picture it — a gritty, violent horror opera to the tune of lilting violins, wherein men can metamorphosize into anything from the feed for a mushroom farm, to the dining fare for an unknowing high society.
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The new drama stars Tom Hanks — otherwise known as the nicest man in American history this side of Rogers — and he appears to nail every aspect of his character, from his gently lilting voice to the careful way he put on his red cardigan and blue tennis shoes.
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The new drama stars Tom Hanks — otherwise known as the nicest man in American history this side of Rogers — and he appears to nail every aspect of his character, from his gently lilting voice to the careful way he put on his red cardigan and blue tennis shoes.
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But when she drew the bow across the edge of her musical saw, out came an otherworldly sound: an ethereal, lilting sonority that seemed to pervade every corner and corridor of the cavernous Herald Square subway station in Manhattan where Ms. Paruz had set up on a recent weekday.
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"I don't wanna be 16 / When I was 16 I was so fragile and so lonely / Insecure," Fauness sings, her voice syrupy sweet and lilting, cushioned between jangly, grunge-pop guitar riffs, sounding like something Letters to Cleo or Hoku might have released in the late 90s or early 2000s.
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And yet Marsden's essays about landscape and history and the habitations and habitants of that mysterious, familiar but deeply unknown fingerlike peninsula at England's lower left-hand, seagirt end are deft and exquisite, filled with the learning of a supremely well-traveled man and composed in a lilting, finely chased prose.
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Amandla's version of the track is a smoother ride than the original (jog your memory of it here), replacing its acoustic guitar with lilting synths, and transforming it into a tender R&B jam, with a music video that celebrates diversity with a borderline annoying level of sleekness and style.
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"Nights of sun, days of moon, and a smell in the air of blood and sweat / Dirt on the hands, tears in the eyes, of so much fighting and little sleep," the ensemble sings on "O Descanso" ("The Rest"), the four-part harmony lilting over a single guitar line, flute and harps.
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Today, she releases her first album, "Heart Head West," a follow-up to her 2016 debut EP. Its 10 tracks — rollicking and guitar-driven, overlaid with her lilting, smoky voice — were recorded live in Los Angeles, where she returned in July to play a show at the Getty Museum with her band.
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Instead of hearing a minimum of two pairs of genitals slapping together on a rattling IKEA bed frame, they will hear a minimum of two pairs of genitals slapping together on a rattling IKEA bed frame to the lilting tones of Radiohead's In Rainbows – which is sort of better, but also, is it really?
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On Monday evenings in May — when area Catholics in this heavily Roman Catholic part of the country observe Maiandacht, a time of devotion to Mary — the sisters would gather outside the newly built chapel on a grassy hill by the train station, not far from the crystalline flow of the White Traun River, and sing lilting Bavarian hymns.
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The melodic strains of lilting Gaelic sing-songs certainly made for more pleasant listening than the discordant Anglo-Saxon howls coming from the streets of Marseille and Lille, and so – by virtue of not beating each other about the head with barstools – Ireland supporters were praised to the heavens on both sides of the Irish sea.
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The gadget, topped with a bust of the composer, bursts into the lilting Rondo alla Turca, the third movement of his Piano Sonata No. 11, when the time is up; it should cheer a highbrow cook for Mother's Day: Mozart Kitchen Timer, $17.50, Kikkerland Shop, 493 Avenue of the Americas (13th Street), 212-262-5000, kikkerland.com.
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First off, the casting: a fresh-faced 17-year-old Knightley, truly magnetic in every single second of this film; a deliciously vapid pre-The Good Wife Panjabi, who almost murders her bridesmaid for buying the blue contacts she was planning on wearing to her engagement party; a devastatingly handsome Rhys-Meyers making hearts swoon with his lilting Irish brogue!
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This played out subtly in song after song, including "As Camélias do Quilombo do Leblon," a buoyant new collaboration; "Terra," which Mr. Veloso composed from a prison cell; and "Sampa," a lilting ode to São Paulo that he sang with haunting deliberation, while Mr. Gil played softly thumping percussion with a thumb and forefinger on the body of his guitar.
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Her early 1970s pop hits, like her own "Day Dreaming" and the Stevie Wonder composition "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)," took a lighter, more lilting tone, a contrast to her rip-roaring 1972 gospel album, "Amazing Grace," which sold more than two million copies, making it one of the best-selling gospel albums of all time.
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Read Music, Speak Spanish is characterized by a pace almost alien to Bright Eyes, and its scratchy electric guitars and always-propulsive percussion provide a backdrop for a biting, anti-capitalist lyrical agenda—delivered in a snarl instead of Oberst's usual lilting tones—which defines the whole album (the physical copy of the LP even contains a lyric insert laid out like a legal contract).
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For those who have never crossed paths with Michael Stewart's deft book, Charles Strouse's lilting music and Lee Adams's clever lyrics, "Bye Bye Birdie" looks in on Sweet Apple, Ohio — its motto dubs it "a pretty nice place" — when Kim is chosen at random to receive the farewell kiss of the rock star Conrad Birdie, who has dismayed his swooning fans by going into the Army.
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Her lyrics are largely centred on the Reichs (singing from Peter's point of view, Bush is concerned with Wilhelm Reich's arrest in 1941: "I can't hide you from the government / Oh, God, Daddy, I won't forget"), and yet the hope at its core, paired with the rousing, lilting musicianship that could mean anything at all, allows the song to maintain a universality that is bigger than their story.
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The song runs from softly lilting piano verses to string choruses that swell so as to be perfectly paired with shots of movement—lace fluttering near a dress form, Day-Lewis slicking his hair away from his forehead with pomade, the camera lens widening to take in a shot of a rich society client looking up the sweeping stairs in the multi-storey house and atelier where Woodcock both works and lives.
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On the cover of The New York Times Book Review, the dance critic Francis Mason called the memoir "a masterly, buoyant legacy of her life and her art," adding that "like herself, the book speaks with a lilting sibylline voice to explain not only the hold dance had on her and what she gave it back, but also to tell us about the love of her life and about years of suffering as well as years of glory."
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The tally, which covers both his own songs and appearances on other artists' songs, includes "Tú Foto," a lilting reggaeton number; "Sobredosis," a melodramatic duet with the bachata star Romeo Santos; "Bebé," a collaboration with Anuel Aa, one of the stars of the Latin trap movement (and who is currently in prison for illegal gun possession); and "Ahora Dice," an ambient pop thumper made with the producer Chris Jeday and the reggaeton stars J Balvin and Arcángel.
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Communication is also easy for Americans, as English — albeit spoken with that lovely, lilting "brogue" — is the language of the vast majority in Ireland (although the endangered native Irish tongue, a Celtic language virtually unrelated to English, can often still be heard, particularly in the west of the country.) And talk about payback: Ireland has sent millions of emigrants to the United States over four centuries (some 34.5 million Americans now have Irish ancestry), so it's only fitting some of us finally return the favor!
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