{"id":19917,"date":"2023-02-23T14:14:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T14:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=19917"},"modified":"2023-02-23T14:14:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T14:14:59","slug":"watch-aksak-mabouls-video-for-new-single-zone-blanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=19917","title":{"rendered":"Watch Aksak Maboul&#8217;s video for new single &#8216;Zone Blanche&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19918\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Aksak-Maboul-Zone-blanche.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Aksak-Maboul-Zone-blanche.jpg 700w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Aksak-Maboul-Zone-blanche-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the bewildering \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=19887\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talking with the Birds<\/a>\u2019, Aksak Maboul are offering a new preview of their album <em>Une aventure de VV (Songspiel) <\/em>in the form of an enigmatic and magnetic new track called &#8216;Zone Blanche&#8217;. Like an experimental audio play, the album saw the band devising characters and stories over a continuous suite of fifteen pieces. The band shared <span class=\"il\">some insight<\/span> into the track:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;In \u2018Zone Blanche\u2019 the protagonist VV (who, in the previous song, has just shattered an ominous wall with the help of a woman, played by Laetitia Sadier) is entering a \u2018dead zone\u2019 which doesn\u2019t appear on the maps. She wanders in the zone, followed by her shadow, played by Don The Tiger. They\u2019re chanting together, until the shadow breaks away and launches into a soulful invocation in Spanish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Zone Blanche&#8217; comes accompanied <span class=\"il\">by a video<\/span> filmed by V\u00e9ronique Vincent and edited by Silva Baldan. Watch it below.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ov1kaUq9dYM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Une aventure de VV (Songspiel) <\/em>is out on March 3rd though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crammed.be\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crammed Discs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the bewildering \u2018Talking with the Birds\u2019, Aksak Maboul are offering a new preview of their album Une aventure de VV (Songspiel) in the form of an enigmatic and magnetic new track called &#8216;Zone Blanche&#8217;. Like an experimental audio play, the album saw the band devising characters and stories over a continuous suite of fifteen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1551],"class_list":["post-19917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-aksak-maboul"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19917","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=19917"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19922,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19917\/revisions\/19922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}