{"id":10184,"date":"2015-12-11T17:36:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T17:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=10184"},"modified":"2015-12-11T17:36:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T17:36:37","slug":"golden-dawn-arkestra-announce-debut-album-stargazer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=10184","title":{"rendered":"Golden Dawn Arkestra announce debut album <em>Stargazer<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Golden-Dawn-Arkestra-Stargazer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10185\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Golden-Dawn-Arkestra-Stargazer-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Golden Dawn Arkestra - Stargazer\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Golden-Dawn-Arkestra-Stargazer-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Golden-Dawn-Arkestra-Stargazer-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Golden-Dawn-Arkestra-Stargazer.jpg 479w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We can&#8217;t wait for some of the albums slated for release next year. One that we&#8217;re really excited about will come from the hands of Texas based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldendawnarkestra.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Golden Dawn Arkestra<\/a>, a collective of musicians, dancers and visual artists founded in 2013 by saxophonist Topaz McGarrigle aka Zapot Mgwana. Influenced by Sun Ra as the name suggests, their music is a cosmic blend of musical ideas, fun inventiveness and many genres, from Afrobeat and Funk to Jazz and Rock.<br \/>\nFollowing last year&#8217;s eponymous EP, Golden Dawn Arkestra are set to release their debut full-length, <em>Stargazer<\/em>, on February 26th via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernimperial.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Modern Imperial<\/a>. The monumental and <span class=\"st\">hip-shakin&#8217;<\/span> title track, offered as the first single, serves as an incredibly enticing introduction to the upcoming <em>Stargazer<\/em>. Listen to it below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/236806465&amp;color=c41709&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can&#8217;t wait for some of the albums slated for release next year. One that we&#8217;re really excited about will come from the hands of Texas based Golden Dawn Arkestra, a collective of musicians, dancers and visual artists founded in 2013 by saxophonist Topaz McGarrigle aka Zapot Mgwana. Influenced by Sun Ra as the name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1394],"class_list":["post-10184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-golden-dawn-arkestra"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10186,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10184\/revisions\/10186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}