percolation

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Her debut album, “Yellow River Blue,” bounds between ambient, dub and house music, with propulsive percussion and synthesizers that generate gauzy textures and warm percolations, with a reverberating depth that feels three-dimensional.

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2023

Expectations are grand for “Painting With,” the group’s 10th album, out this Friday; the early single “FloriDada” nods to the convivial drum-circle euphorics of its earliest releases with playful percolations of surf-pop.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2016

Then I carried him and my clothes from the bungalow, interred them, heaped back the soil and left the eternal percolations from above to do the rest.

From The Red Redmaynes by Phillpotts, Eden

The fibrous tissue itself is waste material, yielding, by boiling or too long percolations, a coffee colored liquid which is fibrous and twangy in taste, has no aromatic character, and contains undesirable elements.

From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)

They melt together brokenly; and sometimes they are fretted with darkness and spotted with caverns, or mottled and zigzagged by rusty percolations of iron.

From A West Country Pilgrimage by Phillpots, Eden