{"id":15317,"date":"2019-09-03T19:51:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T18:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=15317"},"modified":"2019-09-03T19:51:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T18:51:28","slug":"yazz-ahmed-shares-first-single-from-upcoming-album-polyhymnia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=15317","title":{"rendered":"Yazz Ahmed shares first single from upcoming album <em>Polyhymnia<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15318\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yazz-Ahmed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yazz-Ahmed.jpg 800w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yazz-Ahmed-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yazz-Ahmed-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">British-Bahraini trumpeter and composer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yazzahmed.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yazz Ahmed<\/a> had our full attention <a href=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=14974\">back in June<\/a> when she teased her upcoming third album <em>Polyhymnia<\/em>. Releasing next month through <a href=\"https:\/\/ropeadope.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ropeadope Records<\/a>, <em>Polyhymnia<\/em> is a suite of music inspired and celebrating the life of six female role-models, from Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai to civil rights activist Rosa Parks. The good news is that Ahmed has now shared the album&#8217;s first spellbinding single, &#8216;Lahan al\u200b-\u200bMansour&#8217;, dedicated to Haifaa Al-Mansour, Saudi Arabia\u2019s first female film director. Take a listen below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/track=2256804731\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=de270f\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yazzahmed.bandcamp.com\/track\/lahan-al-mansour\">Lahan al-Mansour by Yazz Ahmed<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British-Bahraini trumpeter and composer Yazz Ahmed had our full attention back in June when she teased her upcoming third album Polyhymnia. Releasing next month through Ropeadope Records, Polyhymnia is a suite of music inspired and celebrating the life of six female role-models, from Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai to civil rights activist Rosa Parks. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2097],"class_list":["post-15317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-yazz-ahmed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15317","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=15317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15320,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15317\/revisions\/15320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}