{"id":12811,"date":"2017-10-20T18:58:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T17:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=12811"},"modified":"2017-10-20T18:58:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T17:58:54","slug":"samuel-hallkvist-releases-new-album-variety-of-rhythm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=12811","title":{"rendered":"Samuel H\u00e4llkvist releases new album <em>Variety of Rhythm<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Samuel-H\u00e4llkvist-Variety-of-Rhythm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12812\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Samuel-H\u00e4llkvist-Variety-of-Rhythm-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Samuel-H\u00e4llkvist-Variety-of-Rhythm-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Samuel-H\u00e4llkvist-Variety-of-Rhythm-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Samuel-H\u00e4llkvist-Variety-of-Rhythm.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The unstoppable guitarist extraordinaire <a href=\"http:\/\/samuelhallkvist.com\/\">Samuel H\u00e4llkvist<\/a> released his new album <em>Variety of Rhythm<\/em> last week. The third part of his <em>Variety Of<\/em> series, it follows 2012\u2018s <em>Variety of Loud<\/em> and 2015\u2018s <em>Variety of Live<\/em>. An adventurous and astounding 44-minute suite built around three movements, its pieces incorporate and journey through a broad spectrum of sound, both composed and improvised. <em>Variety of Rhythm<\/em> was recorded in Tokyo, Halmstad, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, New York, Paris and Malm\u00f6, between March 2015 and last January, and it features stellar collaborators aplenty, including guitarist David Torn, sax player Paulo Chagas, bass guitarist player Dick L\u00f6vgren (Meshuggah) and drummer Yasuhiro Yoshigaki, amongst others.<br \/>\n<em>Variety of Rhythm<\/em> is an absolute musical treasure that everyone should hear. To get you enticed, listen to two sublime pieces below, &#8216;Adagio Double&#8217; and &#8216;Tete-a-Tete\/ Blivet&#8217;. And visit <a href=\"http:\/\/varietyof.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VarietyOf.com<\/a> for the full album and H\u00e4llkvist&#8217;s terrific insight into the technicalities of the record.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/244534199&amp;color=%23c41709&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/244534426&amp;color=%23c41709&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unstoppable guitarist extraordinaire Samuel H\u00e4llkvist released his new album Variety of Rhythm last week. The third part of his Variety Of series, it follows 2012\u2018s Variety of Loud and 2015\u2018s Variety of Live. An adventurous and astounding 44-minute suite built around three movements, its pieces incorporate and journey through a broad spectrum of sound, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1784],"class_list":["post-12811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-samuel-hallkvist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12811","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=12811"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12816,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12811\/revisions\/12816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}