{"id":856,"date":"2013-11-14T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/11\/14\/shanti-orchestra-epic-new-age-album\/"},"modified":"2013-11-14T16:28:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T16:28:00","slug":"shanti-orchestra-epic-new-age-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/11\/14\/shanti-orchestra-epic-new-age-album\/","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\" \/><\/a>I love collaborations.  I tend to romanticize, glorify, and other things that end in the Isound them.  So you can imagine how excited I got when I heard about Ricky Kej&#8217;s album Shanti Orchestra.  Composer Kej collaborated with over 20 different musicians from around the globe.  The results are, well, for example, here&#8217;s Pieces of Heavenwith lyricist and vocalist Alexis D&#8217;Souza 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&#8217;s Exotic Dreams:<\/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 Foreverfeaturing 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 Shanti Orchestraas an epic New Age&#8217; album.  I&#8217;m by no mean an expert on the new agemusical genre, but Ricky Kej&#8217;s undertaking with Shanti Orchestrawas 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":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}