percussive
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This group, with drummer Johnathan Blake and bassist Robert Hurst, is more percussive than most, turning what can be a genteel setting into something close to a drum circle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
It may also continue to haunt us forever after, as in the bone-clanking, teeth-chattering, spookily percussive 1929 animated Disney cartoon frolic, “The Skeleton Dance.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Festivalgoers were spilling out of the tent to catch a glimpse of their percussive, high energy performance that straddles the line between jazz, funk, reggae and carnival.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
The percussive score by Joseph Shirley and Moses Sumney underlines this and gives the whole film an eerie, curious atmosphere, lending to a sense of unreality.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
Termites make percussive sounds to each other by beating their heads against the floor in the dark, resonating corridors of their nests.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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