{"id":19975,"date":"2023-03-04T18:14:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T18:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=19975"},"modified":"2023-03-04T18:14:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T18:14:22","slug":"mute-duo-set-to-release-new-album-migrant-flocks-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=19975","title":{"rendered":"Mute Duo set to release new album, <em>Migrant Flocks<\/em>, in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19984\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mute-Duo-by-Ricardo-Adame.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mute-Duo-by-Ricardo-Adame.jpg 700w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mute-Duo-by-Ricardo-Adame-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There\u2019s exciting news from Chicago\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/muteduoadr.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mute Duo<\/a>, who are set to release a third album, following 2020&#8217;s <em>Lapse in Passage<\/em>, which was one of our Album Picks of the year. Entitled Migrant Flocks, the album will see the light of day on April 14th through <a href=\"https:\/\/american-dreams.zone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Dreams<\/a>. The upcoming album encapsulates the power and energy that permeates <span class=\"il\">their live<\/span> shows, and as the press release describes, it &#8220;traverses across pastoral and urban sonic landscapes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the record, the necessity of migration, whether in humans, cetaceans or birds, is explored as a theme by the duo of pedal steel guitarist Sam Wagster and drummer Skyler Rowe. \u201cMigration is something you can\u2019t help,\u201d says Rowe. \u201cYou can\u2019t help how things are constantly moving or evolving. You have to change with it.\u201d Wagster adds, \u201cIn terms of human movement, the different motives for migration came to mind: people fleeing an increasingly hostile climate or hostile political circumstances; people leaving home for a chance at a better economic situation; or\u2014as is the case for both of us\u2014a cultural migration, where one is drawn away from where they grew up by creative sounds, ideas and the opportunity to participate in a progressive artistic community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition to their core instruments, Wagster and Rowe incorporated other instruments namely vibraphone and piano from Rowe, and organ, drum machine and programming from Wagster.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"il\">The announcement comes<\/span> alongside single &#8216;Night Guides&#8217;, a gripping and fierce first taste. Take a listen now.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1282625019\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=de270f\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=660143879\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/muteduoadr.bandcamp.com\/album\/migrant-flocks\">Migrant Flocks by Mute Duo<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s exciting news from Chicago\u2019s\u00a0Mute Duo, who are set to release a third album, following 2020&#8217;s Lapse in Passage, which was one of our Album Picks of the year. Entitled Migrant Flocks, the album will see the light of day on April 14th through American Dreams. The upcoming album encapsulates the power and energy that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2223],"class_list":["post-19975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-mute-duo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19975","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=19975"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19988,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19975\/revisions\/19988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}