{"id":21158,"date":"2024-02-15T15:31:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T15:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=21158"},"modified":"2024-02-15T15:31:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T15:31:56","slug":"kahil-elzabars-ethnic-heritage-ensemble-preview-upcoming-albumopen-me-a-higher-consciousness-of-sound-and-spirit-with-third-single-open-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=21158","title":{"rendered":"Kahil El\u2019Zabar\u2019s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble preview upcoming album,<em>Open Me, A Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit<\/em>, with third single &#8216;Open Me&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21159\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21159\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21159\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kahil-ElZabars-Ethnic-Heritage-Ensemble-Christopher-Andrew.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Christopher Andrew<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We&#8217;re only three weeks away from the release of <em>Open Me, A Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit<\/em>, a special new album celebrating the epic feat that is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kahilelzabar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kahil El\u2019Zabar<\/a>\u2019s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble\u2018s 50th anniversary. Ahead of the album&#8217;s release on March 8th through <a href=\"http:\/\/spiritmuserecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spiritmuse Records<\/a>, they have shared a third marvellous single, the closing track &#8216;Open Me&#8217;, only adding further to the excitement. El\u2019Zabar, who wrote the track in honour of the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble 50-year career, performed most of the instruments. Speaking about the track, he comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201c\u2018Open Me\u2019 is a meditation upon the acceptance of abundant possibilities. I wrote this music as an entry into humble beginnings of openness, where we can once again be free and let go of all barriers. Here, I&#8217;m asking of the Divine Spirit to guide and inspire within us a passageway to higher forms of expression.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Listen to &#8216;Open Me&#8217; below.<br \/>\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3450526459\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=de270f\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=1635364779\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ethnicheritageensemble.bandcamp.com\/album\/open-me-a-higher-consciousness-of-sound-and-spirit\">Open Me, A Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit de Ethnic Heritage Ensemble<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re only three weeks away from the release of Open Me, A Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit, a special new album celebrating the epic feat that is Kahil El\u2019Zabar\u2019s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble\u2018s 50th anniversary. Ahead of the album&#8217;s release on March 8th through Spiritmuse Records, they have shared a third marvellous single, the closing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3111],"class_list":["post-21158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-kahil-elzabars-ethnic-heritage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21158","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=21158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21161,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21158\/revisions\/21161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}