{"id":9326,"date":"2013-11-14T16:28:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T21:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/2013\/11\/13\/"},"modified":"2013-11-14T16:28:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T21:28:48","slug":"shanti-orchestra-epic-new-age-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=9326","title":{"rendered":"Shanti Orchestra: Epic New Age Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/shanti-orchestra-cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/shanti-orchestra-cover-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/shanti-orchestra-cover-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/shanti-orchestra-cover.jpg 719w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I love collaborations.  I tend to romanticize, glorify, and other things that end in the \u201cI\u201d sound them.  So you can imagine how excited I got when I heard about Ricky Kej\u2019s album \u201cShanti Orchestra\u201d.  Composer Kej collaborated with over 20 different musicians from around the globe.  The results are, well, for example, here\u2019s \u201cPieces of Heaven\u201d with lyricist and vocalist Alexis D\u2019Souza from Qatar.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"373\" height=\"210\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VIwx1_8nk8c?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Not too shabby, right?  Beautiful, yes?  Dare I say enchanting?  I think I dare.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s \u201cExotic Dreams\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"373\" height=\"210\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gYWlrDJHtv4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Exotic, right?  Mellow but you can groove to it, yes?<\/p>\n<p>I really enjoy \u201cForever\u201d featuring lyrics and vocals by Junior Bay from the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"373\" height=\"210\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Auj_ArhZ28s?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Just sublime, correct?<\/p>\n<p>The liner notes describe \u201cShanti Orchestra\u201d as an \u201cepic \u2018New Age\u2019 album\u201d.  I\u2019m by no mean an expert on the \u201cnew age\u201d musical genre, but Ricky Kej\u2019s undertaking with \u201cShanti Orchestra\u201d was certainly epic and the results were certainly wonderful and evocative.  That seems pretty much like an epic New Age album to me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did composer Ricky Kej create an &#8220;epic &#8216;New Age&#8217; album&#8221;?  Am I qualified to make that call?  Click on in for lots of beautiful music and video!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,20,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}