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- noun Plural form of
kalimba .
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November 23rd, 2007 marimbas, kalimbas, he's playing steel drums ...
marimbas, kalimbas, he's playing steel drums... rikibeth 2007
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Two kalimbas -- better known as African thumb pianos -- skitter under her Waits-like vocal in "Green Grass."
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There are warm pop ballads, voices overlapping in a choir, jagged polyrhythms built of woodwinds, bass lines on a constant walk, kalimbas setting up a mode for the singer.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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There's 21 different sets of "chimes" using different instruments, including bells, crystals, kalimbas, glockenspiels, violins, and many others.
Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Mac OS 2010
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There are warm pop ballads, voices overlapping in a choir, jagged polyrhythms built of woodwinds, bass lines on a constant walk, kalimbas setting up a mode for the singer.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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There are warm pop ballads, voices overlapping in a choir, jagged polyrhythms built of woodwinds, bass lines on a constant walk, kalimbas setting up a mode for the singer.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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They cover the quirky Tom Ze tune "Ma," replicating the puzzle-piece contruction of its interlocking riffs, and on the entrancing "Crescent" bandleader Elliot Bergman improvises searching bamboo-flute melodies atop shimmering electric kalimbas, hand claps, and congas.
Chicago Reader 2010
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There's 21 different sets of "chimes" using different instruments, including bells, crystals, kalimbas, glockenspiels, violins, and many others.
Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Mac OS 2010
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There's a lot of soloing-Bergman's tenor work is particularly gripping-but what's really special is the ensemble sound, which blurs the lines between African music, jazz, and funk, using horns, kalimbas, percussion, and the occasional guitar to create fluid grids of precisely layered rhythms.
Chicago Reader 2010
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There's 21 different sets of "chimes" using different instruments, including bells, crystals, kalimbas, glockenspiels, violins, and many others.
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