{"id":35,"date":"2014-11-16T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/16\/vocal-contstructivists-cd\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:22:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:22:55","slug":"vocal-contstructivists-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/16\/vocal-contstructivists-cd\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocal Contstructivists CD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-pW4badqKzeg\/VGiaFwAmU2I\/AAAAAAAABEI\/Yio2cTiHK-g\/s1600\/wstill.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/wstill.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/272;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>In other music news, my choir, the Vocal Constructivists have released a CD, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.innova.mu\/albums\/vocal-constructivists\/walking-still\">Walking Still<\/a>, which is available for purchase. I&#8217;ve just ordered ten copies to give away as Christmas presents. It&#8217;s also available via iTunes and you can listen to it on <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/PK7bmISSJ8\">Spotify<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe album has been getting good press, most recently by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theartsdesk.com\/classical-music\/classical-cds-weekly-hindemith-colin-matthews-walton-vocal-constructivists\">the Arts Desk<\/a>, who used words like &#8216;compelling,&#8217; fabulous&#8217;, and &#8216;faultless&#8217;.  A previous review, in the Independent, compared it to orgasms with machinery noises.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve also been told that its eligible for Grammy nominations, meaning they think it&#8217;s one of the best 500 CD released last year in its category.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m a tenor on the album. although I have written a piece for the choir, the first performance was not until after the recording session.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re pondering getting a musical gift for someone, but think noise music might be a bit too much, this is a good disk to introduce people into somewhat out there stuff.  As the Arts Desk put it, &#8216;Everyone needs a disc of offbeat contemporary music on their shelves. Start with this one.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In other music news, my choir, the Vocal Constructivists have released a CD, Walking Still, which is available for purchase. I&#8217;ve just ordered ten copies to give away as Christmas presents. It&#8217;s also available via iTunes and you can listen to it on Spotify. The album has been getting good press, most recently by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/16\/vocal-contstructivists-cd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vocal Contstructivists CD<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,11],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-ads","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2207,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/2207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}