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On “Day of the Living Sky,” hypnotic plucking of a harplike instrument, a scattered flute and an anchoring drumbeat transport listeners to a celestial jungle.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2023
Produced by Mendoza and Rusty Santos, who has worked with Animal Collective, the song is harmonically and spatially ambiguous, with harplike plucking, swooping electronics and vocals wafting in from all directions.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
On Aug. 7, Kevin Scott, a Universal Life minister, officiated there before 100 guests, and a musician played the kora, a West African long-necked harplike instrument.
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2021
The latter’s 1974 single “Kalimba Story,” for example, inspired Williams’s use of the African thumb-piano on the song “Urban Driftwood,” which also features her on the harplike kora.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2021
Then the playing began again,—a harplike intermingling of soft sounds.
From A Mountain Woman by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
