Marimba Pop's cover of "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi is played on, well, a marimba!
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Watch out all you well-paid, fat-and-sassy jazz marimba players: Shimon, the marimba playing robot, is after your jobs.
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The "non-critical alert" features plucked violin strings and the marimba.
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The "hard warning" sound is two rapid repeated notes struck on a marimba.
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A Zimbabwe game reserve guide pets "Marimba", a female pangolin weighing 22 pounds, Sept.
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Marimba music pipes through loudspeakers as deportees who've just arrived file through the door.
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The marimba has always been a social instrument, bringing together communities in days gone by.
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Life here revolves around two things: tambora (drum) and marimba-driven musical ensembles, and food.
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I especially liked Mr. Andriessen's "Hout" (1991) for electric guitar, tenor saxophone, marimba and piano.
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The live band plays drums and marimba but also groovy Afro-pop guitar and saxophone.
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Using song, dance and marimba, the director Mark Dornford-May brings this production to BAM.
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Shimon, a four-armed robot marimba player, is now capable of writing its own songs.
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It includes, again, the marimba as well as strings playing a cheery series of rising notes.
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It took me a while to hear a ringtone in the marimba from "Anyware", for example.
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The marimba band started up again, and we drank until I forgot about my bloody hand.
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The following morning, a band played marimba music next to the coffin in Paiz's family home.
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Just like Shimon here — a four-armed marimba-playing robot designed by George Tech's music technology center.
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The anthem was accompanied not by an orchestra but by a single marimba, a xylophone-like instrument.
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One of her students was hitting the low notes on a marimba — but Rakowski didn't hear any sound.
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Colombia's drug trade was flourishing, although in those days it was mostly marijuana, which the locals called marimba.
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ANTHONY TOMMASINI AT 22 SECONDS Watch out, Yo-Yo Ma — maybe they should be called Bach's Marimba Suites.
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There's marimba for Colton's date with Cassie and dead, atmospheric silence for Heather's pre-kiss parts of her date.
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Marimba Every motherfucker who heard that Midori Takada album on YouTube thinks they can play malleted percussion now. 35.
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The work's most compelling stretches were achieved by Ms. Lockwood's use of a cylindrical container placed atop a marimba.
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Dafra Star (founded by Volta-Jazz's star singer, Coulibaly Tidiani) brings out African rhythms, often with a balafon (marimba).
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Local legend has it that a Zulu goddess named Marimba first made the instrument by hanging gourds below wooden bars.
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"Shape of You" is summery and rides a marimba melody, while "Castle on the Hill" is a rushing folk number.
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The sounds are played by string musicians Adrienne Rönmark and Eric Nowlin and percussionist Joseph Becker who plays the marimba.
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At that time, he was more concerned with playing in his school's marimba band and listening to Lil' Bow Wow.
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We loaded the marimba into a truck and drove it to the cemetery, to celebrate among the villagers' deceased relatives.
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This brief work, set to Steve Reich's "Nagoya Marimba," took place with spectators standing on the theater's promenade during intermission.
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"The marimba hubs is a concept that we have started in South Africa to take children off the streets," explains Lithgow.
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He prepared selections for marimba, snare drum, xylophone, glockenspiel and timpani — any of which could have been chosen for the audition.
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Two of the most notable are Shimon, the aforementioned marimba-playing robot which can perceive, interact, and improvise with human musicians.
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Now she's raising money to pay the fines by hosting a series of marimba concerts and confidence coaching sessions in town.
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Over what were already speedy tempos, a marimba that sprinted and arpeggiated in double time became a frenetic invitation to party.
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Mr. Linhart played drums as a teenager and quickly expanded his skill set to include to vibes, marimba, guitar and piano.
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Some nights, he, my mother, and I listened to the shortwave signal of a Guatemalan radio station that broadcast marimba orchestras.
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Over a playful percussion section, digital marimba-like sounds twinkle weightlessly and weightless synth pads ooze in a wonderfully gaseous way.
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Men wear hats with feathers, to represent roosters and a masculine spirit, and gallop through town, past onlookers and marimba bands.
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So, although the marimba is a particularly non-threatening instrument, the melody itself is proof that machines have a way to go.
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Click here to view original GIFMusician Tony Ann recreated popular ringtones—like the iPhone's Marimba and T-Mobile's jingle—with a piano.
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Her band has a settled rhythm section and fizzy arrangements, involving two guitars and concise, stepwise streaks of marimba and baritone saxophone.
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There are stretches in the first movement in which frenetic marimba volleys skirt atop jittery string ostinatos that break into cresting harmonic waves.
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Songs like "Okinawa Fantasia" offer a sort of sunny bliss; each swirling synth-marimba melody evokes an impossible world to lose yourself in.
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The Socratic dialogue takes musical shape as Soper joins in on percussion, playing the marimba and damping cymbals to stop them from ringing.
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Flux Pavilion is a master of cartoonish dynamics, his wall of bass crushing the nimble marimba riff like an avalanche falling on a teacup.
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Not to be confused with a timbila from Mozambique, the xylophone-like marimba has different shaped resonators and a proud tradition of its own.
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The marimba and steel drums injected a tropical note into "Rustic Ballad"; "Off Waltz" combined a sultry Scheherazade-like riff with a deep groove.
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And the Marimba Lumina, played with mallets, responded to velocity, position and contact; each of its four mallets could be assigned its own sound.
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The producer builds from a funky walking bass line, accompanied by a high-hat shuffle, marimba, and Rhodes piano to a grand choral burst.
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It also makes a track so lively, I can make any beat exciting with a marimba loop and the crowd loves it as well.
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It had Wiki, Ratking cohort Sporting Life and Grime ambassador Skepta dropping jewels about Nestle and marvel superhero Blade over an infectious marimba-sounding beat.
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It's no FL Studio, but it's fun and you get to choose between a few instruments like a piano, strings, woodwinds, a synth and a marimba.
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A musician and roboticist, Weinberg has created some of the coolest robots I've seen including Shimon, a robot that can play the marimba alongside human musicians.
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Will you find yourself on the floor of a classical music conservatory getting beaten to death by the plushy marimba sticks of a sentient robot being?
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The album was an arduous process, with Ms. Takada composing, producing, arranging the microphones and playing everything on it, from marimba to drums, harmonium to Coke bottle.
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The Robotic Church includes around 50 "robotic saints" built from 1987 to 2006, which rhythmically bang on drums, play marimba, strum mellow strings, and even paint a picture.
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These artisans are putting it back together Children from Goede Hoop have found international acclaim by performing interpretations of classical pieces by Beethoven and Vivaldi on the marimba.
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To pass the time on this winter afternoon, Jesús listens to a CD of marimba music from Guatemala and plays a video game on his father's cell phone.
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Mr. Schall would practice a Reich marimba lick for 20 or 30 minutes at a time, adding exotic tinges to whatever Bach or Brahms recording I was reviewing.
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Mpunga, a multi-instrumentalist (he's learned to play the drums, piano, marimba, and flute), is also multi-sensory with his work, envisioning tracks as images, fragrances, and colors.
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On the sides of the stage, a pianist and a marimba player add a percussive soundtrack as the eight-person cast waltzes, jumps and shuffles across the stage.
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And there are scores of other moments on Pablo that seem crafted for Internet fodder, like letting his iPhone's marimba ringtone go off in the "30 Hours" adlib.
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Or having felt the rhythmic energy of "Three Scenes," full too of a melodic sensibility on vibraphone and marimba that was infrequent if not absent elsewhere on the program.
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On "For Fannie Lou Hamer" — with Mr. Parker playing the marimba, glockenspiel and reeds, and leading a full band — Leena Conquest roams from spoken decree to wide, darkened vibrato.
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Set to Steve Reich's "Nagoya Marimba," the new work, with costumes by Rag & Bone, showcases 24 dancers from American Ballet Theater's Studio Company and the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School.
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For each concert he's enlisted one or two different collaborators; at this one he'll be joined by two fellow percussionists: Patricia Brennan on vibraphone and Chris Dingman on marimba.
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Herencia de Timbiqui, a popular marimba band who have moulded the style into pop ballads, played the final concert, with La Filarmónica de Cali providing orchestral arrangements of their songs.
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In the 21st century, musicians have redefined the traditional boundaries of their instruments and genres: Marimba players and harpists perform Bach's "Goldberg" Variations, and jazz pianists reinterpret Mahler and Schumann.
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Though the hopefuls don't seem to have previous cheerleading experience, they demonstrate a vast array of physical activities during their auditions, such as aerobics, yoga and a somewhat sensual marimba routine.
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With its mixture of theremin, violin, clarinet, marimba, lap steel guitar, spoken text, and rock rhythm section, "Conversation in the Mountains," had, I thought, existed in its own isolated musical world.
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"Pool" syncs up a series of plinky, descending, dissonant and/or slightly delayed marimba figures with a crunchy rhythm guitar, while a calming string progression intervenes, intermittently, to balance the nervous pace.
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I wasn't just hearing the note, I was hearing how it was being played — whether it was the hit of a mallet on a marimba or the strumming of a guitar string.
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A fondness for unusual instruments like the marimba seemed to stem from an interest in avant-garde hobo Harry Partch, while another influence—or so everybody kept telling him—was Kurt Weill.
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The track's elements—a pensive marimba and a measured rhythmic bass line—seem to run on congruent yet semi-autonomous timelines, glued together by a female voice chanting the titular phrase throughout.
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Among his early hits, "Sway" ("When marimba rhythms start to play") was clearly Latin-accented, even when Dean Martin sang it, and "Canadian Sunset," recorded by Andy Williams, became a jazz standard.
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It's an incredibly goofy song, the cheery marimba riff and cartoon sound effects fitting oddly next to Ca$tro Guapo's crowd-inciting hook and Wop muttering about sticking his fingers up certain orifices.
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"Thread and Fray" (2006), an attractive four-minute work for clarinet, viola and marimba by Sarah Kirkland Snider, opened the evening and set the scene for an exploration of compositional aims and methods.
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The music, by Akira Miyoshi and Michael Gordon, is more urgent — tremolos on marimba, mysterious and thunderous — and the choreography is more agitated: an exchange of whiplash duets and trios like excited molecules.
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Nick is engaged in some friendly smooching and excessive abdominal sunscreen application when a menacing marimba melody I will forever think of as "Corinne's Theme" lets us know that this fun will not last.
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Click here to view original GIFShimon—a four-armed marimba playing robot—has been around for years, but its developers at Georgia Tech have recently taken this futuristic musical machine to the next level.
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With Blackout, Harris, a virtuoso vibraphonist and marimba player, has long been proposing a kind of fusion that links contemporary jazz with R&B and hip-hop — often by way of the Caribbean, subtly.
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You relied on a clock radio to wake you (and not because you were worried about screen addiction) The iPhone was still seven years away from existing, so you couldn't rely on the "Marimba" alarm.
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Where Mr. Zender resorts to literal sound painting, it's often vivid and apt, like the combination of harp, marimba and strings tapped with the wooden part of the bow, in a passage about frozen tears.
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But later, following an especially subtle and dreamy tango by Astor Piazzolla arranged for the all-marimba Wave Quartet, of which he is a member, the audience expressed its enthusiasm with sustained clapping in unison.
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For all the pungent sonorities and eerie atmosphere, stretches of the piece had playful charm, with rippling marimba figures and, best of all, the angelic sounds of a musical saw, played here by Dale Stuckenbruck.
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Fourteen-year-old vocalist Dogo Janja shoots the track into overdrive right out the gate, playing rough-and-tumble with Jay Mitta's pounding marimba beat with a flow that never loses momentum even for a second.
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Ahead of the royal couple's arrival, a small crowd of around 100 gathered outside the church, singing and dancing to the beat of a marimba band, while a throng of local and international media jostled for positions.
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A percussionist and composer whose main instruments are the vibraphone and marimba, Brennan has recently started to make her presence known on the New York avant-garde, working with such prominent bandleaders as Matt Mitchell and Michael Formanek.
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WHERE TO START: "How Does It Feel" Masego can play drums, piano, sax, guitar, trumpet, violin, bass, and marimba—as he only too happily mentions again and again on Loose Thoughts, which finally assembles his string of recent singles.
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With its marimba intro and alternating vocal lines, Paraiso's "Asatoya Yunta" refracts a Japanese folk classic through the lens of American "exotica," now with the same sort of parallel fourth piano stabs used to convey "Asianness" in Hollywood for decades.
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I wasn't looking for that detail, just like I wasn't trying to envision a marimba (hell, I had to look up the instrument's name after hearing it): the K10s just surface the intricacy in each recording in a way that others don't.
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If you've heard a thumb piano, or a particularly complex marimba passage, or a synthetic approximation of either of the two twirling around one another in the midst of an otherwise ambient piece, you likely have Hassell to thank for that inspiration.
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He hears the marimba-like tone and he is back at Pulse nightclub on June 12 as a police officer pinned down in an hourslong standoff surrounded by dead bodies, their phones ringing again and again with calls that would never be answered.
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We are now sufficiently habituated to these sound effects that their presence in TV shows and movies is no longer a novelty; it is stranger to hear a landline ring in a contemporary show than to hear the default iPhone marimba beat.
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This weekend he appears with most members of the band that played on the album: Victor Gould on piano, Alex Wintz on guitar, Chien Chien Lu on vibraphone and marimba, Corcoran Holt on bass, Allan Mednard on drums and Ismel Wignall on percussion.
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With a heady blend of marimba tones, bongo flourishes, bird calls, and even monkey screeches, the album felt like the furthest thing from the American living room, far beyond the craftsman homes, General Motors, and middlebrow taste native to most of the record-buying public.
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Every day at 6:30, when my iPhone starts screaming at me to rouse me from sleep (love you, Marimba), I roll over, check my emails, and sign into our CMS, getting a post (or two) up as the coffee pot timer kicks in.
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"Autobiography" isn't autobiographical; it's a dance score for the British choreographer Wayne McGregor, and it merges brittle drum-machine sounds with marimba-plinking Steve Reich Minimalism, orchestral instruments, sampled vocals (speaking, singing, screaming) and plenty of other sounds that keep a listener perpetually off-balance.
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" In "Mercy," her music is grounded in acoustic guitar and either the vibraphone or a marimba — she is leaving it up to the percussionists — and, she said with a laugh, "what I think is the most soulful instrument ever, and that's the Fender Rhodes.
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Presented at the New Victory Theater in a mixture of English and South African languages and performed to live marimba music, the show follows Aesop as he escapes his master and sets off for Mount Olympus, meeting — and learning from — a host of animals along the way.
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This vibrant and teasingly cacophonous work featured mini-concertos for each ensemble member: a tangy steel pan solo for Mr. Quillen, incandescent drum kit fireworks for Mr. Treuting, and a broody marimba soliloquy for Mr. Sliwinski (needled by the whir of a small band of windup dinosaurs).
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JON PARELES Damon Albarn has come up with another of his morose, midtempo, insinuating minor-key rock ditties — "I'm a long way from land/I don't know what to do," he sings — and he tops it lavishly, with strings, piano, (perhaps synthetic) horns and a West African balafon (marimba).
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Its punchy power pop has broadened, daubing power chords with a range of wacky elements: xylophone; marimba; breathy backup vocals; lanky string arrangements; splashes of synthesizer gloss; bubblefunk rhythm guitar; and foregrounded African highlife riffs, of all things, with that high, clear, trebly guitar sound (is this the '80s influence in question?).
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Joined by the show's house band The Roots, Nick Carter, Kevin Richardson, AJ McLean, Brian Littrell, and Howie Dorough — each rocking an all-white look reminiscent of their iconic music video — gave a marimba-remixed rendition of their '99 hit "I Want It That Way" with the occasional "Jimmy" lyric thrown in.
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It's probably the most immediately satisfying moment on the record, but even it's full of these wonderful thickets of ideas—a little bit of 70s singer-songwriter tropes here, a little minimal jazz there, a synth-marimba (or glockenspiel or something) that pops up for a tiny melody and then drops away.
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Originally just an instrumental before he added Tove Styke's vocals, "Aftergold" sounds like a stroll through a jungle: there's far-off echoes that you can't quite place, subtle hums of happiness, dream-like harps, a melange of marimba and a complexity that leaves you wondering what's around the corner of every beat.
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He's known for his uniquely South African take on trap music, a genre he uses on songs like "Manando" and "No More" to describe things specific to his township upbringing, like losing a friend who taught him how to play marimba to gun violence or witnessing smash-and-grabs as a kid.
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What had once been a palatial movie house with velvet curtains, a wide lobby and marimba concerts before each show was now a rundown establishment where rats were rumored to run between patrons' legs, and college students sneaked in for loud make-out sessions followed by cigarettes, despite the bright neon "No Smoking" signs.
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It originally started out as a joke, but thanks to two art students from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, St. Peter's Chapel now plays ringtones throughout the day—that includes the iPhone's highly recognizable Marimba chime, which must have the town's 80,000-plus residents instinctively reaching for their phones to make sure they're not missing a call.
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Halfway through our conversation, I realize I forgot to press "record" on my phone, but it's hard to forget our discussion about his collection of movie posters, the gem of which is an original print of the poster for True Romance, the script Ridley Scott's brother bought from Quentin Tarantino, that became a marimba-filled journey starring Ethan Hawke.
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On a recent evening at the Guggenheim Museum, however, one of these ancient pyramids danced freely to the bright chimes of a marimba: it was replicated in the scaled-down form of a costume worn by Guatemalan artist Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, as part of his performance, "A Brief History of Architecture in Guatemala" in the museum's atrium.
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Anywhere else in the city, a hub of transit and commerce about ten miles north of the Guatemalan border, there would be no mistaking that you were in Latin America: The open colonial plaza, with its splaying palms and marimba players, men with megaphones announcing Jesus, and women hawking woven trinkets and small bags of cut fruit suggested as much.
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The first days of the event are given over to a competition in four categories: bands with the traditional Cauca violin; bands featuring the marimba, which originates from west Africa but is now the definitive sound of the region, also known as el piano de la selva (the piano of the jungle); Chirimía bands, which feature clarinets, and Agrupación Libre, free groups doing their own thing.
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Brian Jones (1969) The eccentric genius behind some of the most daring sounds on the early Rolling Stones records—including the marimba on "Under My Thumb"—Jones' death was ruled an accidental drowning in his pool (and labeled "Death by Misadventure" by the coroner as a nod to his alcohol and drug abuse), but U.K. investigative journalist Scott Jones pinned Jones' death on a builder named Frank Thorogood, the last person to see the musician alive.
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During this wilderness period, Nilsson also developed an inexplicable fixation with Caribbean music, embellishing Duit on Mon Dei throwaways like "It's a Jungle Out There" with prominent steel drums and marimba and even covering the calypso classic "Zombie Jamboree (Back to Back)" on 1976's ...That's the Way It Is. That LP, a far-from-essential covers-heavy outing, at least features some stellar album art: Our dude is pictured lounging around a debauched living room, reading Penthouse and clutching a cigarette.
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