Manyinstrumentalpop recording draw upon an already existing repertoineoftraditional pop standards, as well as jazzandrocksongs that can be adapted to fit the easy-listening style.
They include best rock instrumental and best contemporary jazz recording.
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Drawing from sources as disparate as Black Sabbath, the indie-instrumentalists in Tortoise and the self-flagellating noise-masters in Swans, Pelican makes instrumental hard rock that whispers as much as it shouts, and teases as much as it pummels.
"Toward the Low Sun" (Drag City) is the ninth album by the instrumental group Dirty Three , which dispenses with equal efficacy sentimental folk ballads, free-flowing rockand downtown free jazz, resulting in tender beauty and raucous clatter.