{"id":16738,"date":"2020-08-28T18:53:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T17:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=16738"},"modified":"2020-08-28T18:53:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T17:53:03","slug":"samuel-hallkvist-releases-new-album-epik-didaktik-pastoral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=16738","title":{"rendered":"Samuel H\u00e4llkvist releases new album <em>Epik, Didaktik, Pastoral<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16739\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16739\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16739\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Samuel-H\u00e4llkvist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Samuel-H\u00e4llkvist.jpg 750w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Samuel-H\u00e4llkvist-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo; Mike H<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Epik, Didaktik, Pastoral<\/em>, the brand new album from composer and guitarist extraordinaire <a href=\"http:\/\/samuelhallkvist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Samuel H\u00e4llkvist<\/a>, is one of the most thrilling surprises of this summer. Released last week through BoogiePost \/ Burning Shed, the album is a wild and wondrous ride, filled with exciting and unexpected shifts throughout its ten original compositions, and flirting with a variety of genres and influences, from jazz and country to metal and electronic. Fluent in both composition and improvisation,\u00a0H\u00e4llkvist displays his staggering inventiveness, offering a bold and refreshing contemporary album, bursting with sound colours and grooves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To bring <em>Epik, Didaktik, Pastoral<\/em> to life, H\u00e4llkvist enlisted the help of a slew of talented players, including trumpeters Yazz Ahmed,\u00a0Noel Langle and Luca Calabrese, bass players Dick L\u00f6vgren and Anne Marte Eggen, Knut Finsrud on\u00a0drums and\u00a0Katrine Amsler on sound design and programming.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For an exhilarating taste of the album, here&#8217;s one of the album tracks, &#8216;100 Takter med Piano&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3701973064\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=de270f\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=2370719258\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/samuelhallkvist.bandcamp.com\/album\/epik-didaktik-pastoral\">Epik, Didaktik, Pastoral by Samuel H\u00e4llkvist<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epik, Didaktik, Pastoral, the brand new album from composer and guitarist extraordinaire Samuel H\u00e4llkvist, is one of the most thrilling surprises of this summer. Released last week through BoogiePost \/ Burning Shed, the album is a wild and wondrous ride, filled with exciting and unexpected shifts throughout its ten original compositions, and flirting with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1784],"class_list":["post-16738","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\/16738","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=16738"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16744,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16738\/revisions\/16744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}