{"id":16778,"date":"2020-09-09T12:56:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T11:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=16778"},"modified":"2020-09-09T12:56:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T11:56:14","slug":"neil-cowley-announces-trilogy-of-new-eps-building-blocks-pt-1-out-this-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=16778","title":{"rendered":"Neil Cowley announces trilogy of new EP&#8217;s, <em>Building Blocks, Pt. 1<\/em> out this Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16784\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Neil-Cowley-Building-Blocks-Pt1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Neil-Cowley-Building-Blocks-Pt1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Neil-Cowley-Building-Blocks-Pt1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Celebrated and talented pianist and composer <a href=\"https:\/\/neilcowleymusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neil Cowley<\/a> embraced a solo career last year, after more than a decade with his trio, Neil Cowley Trio. Following a period of self-discovery and reinvention as an artist, he is delving further into his solo career with a trilogy of new EP&#8217;s. Entitled <em>Building Blocks<\/em>, his new work weaves a mosaic of sounds and influences, skillfully merging elements of ambient, electronic, improvisational and contemporary classical music. As the press release describes, the new compositions &#8220;chronicl[e] Neil Cowley\u2019s reconnection with his principal instrument and old friend, the piano.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first EP, <em>Building Blocks, Pt. 1<\/em>, will see the light of day this Friday and Cowley is offering &#8216;Eureka Pulse&#8217; as the first utterly sublime and delicate taste from it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1419930219\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=de270f\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=1218884783\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/neilcowley.bandcamp.com\/album\/building-blocks-pt-1\">Building Blocks, Pt. 1 by Neil Cowley<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In other good news, Neil Cowley has also announced a debut solo album will arrive in 2021, following the EP&#8217;s release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrated and talented pianist and composer Neil Cowley embraced a solo career last year, after more than a decade with his trio, Neil Cowley Trio. Following a period of self-discovery and reinvention as an artist, he is delving further into his solo career with a trilogy of new EP&#8217;s. Entitled Building Blocks, his new work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2103],"class_list":["post-16778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-neil-cowley"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16778","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=16778"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16788,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16778\/revisions\/16788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}