{"id":20915,"date":"2023-11-10T14:16:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T14:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=20915"},"modified":"2023-12-01T18:19:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T18:19:01","slug":"ben-lumsdaines-new-album-murmuration-without-end-out-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=20915","title":{"rendered":"Ben Lumsdaine&#8217;s new album, <em>Murmuration Without End<\/em>, out in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20916\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ben-Lumsdaine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"464\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">LA-based producer, composer, percussionist and multi-instrumentalist <a href=\"https:\/\/benlumsdaine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Lumsdaine<\/a> is gearing up to release a new album later this year. Entitled <em>Murmuration Without End<\/em>, it arrives on December 8th through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intlanthem.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Anthem<\/a> and features guest contributions from saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi (Bon Iver, Bill Callahan), trumpeter John Raymond (S. Carey, Sara Bareilles), and guitarist Drake Ritter (Durand Jones, Diane Coffee). The album is &#8220;a collection of rhythmic studies that began as meditative synth drones recorded by Lumsdaine&#8221;, as the press release describes, which &#8220;grew into multi-textural, poly-rhythmic sound worlds as he disrupted the meters and pulses implied by the synths\u2019 inherent modulations with each instrumental layer added.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Along with the album announcement, Lumsdaine has let loose the beautiful and absorbing lead single &#8216;Dallas&#8217; and you can listen to it below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1917028189\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=de270f\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=1411662954\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/intlanthem.bandcamp.com\/album\/murmuration-without-end\">Murmuration Without End by Ben Lumsdaine<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA-based producer, composer, percussionist and multi-instrumentalist Ben Lumsdaine is gearing up to release a new album later this year. Entitled Murmuration Without End, it arrives on December 8th through International Anthem and features guest contributions from saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi (Bon Iver, Bill Callahan), trumpeter John Raymond (S. Carey, Sara Bareilles), and guitarist Drake Ritter (Durand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3056],"class_list":["post-20915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-ben-lumsdaine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20915","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=20915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20961,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20915\/revisions\/20961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}