{"id":21842,"date":"2024-09-04T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=21842"},"modified":"2024-09-27T13:35:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T12:35:22","slug":"flock-set-to-release-second-album-flock-ii-listen-to-first-single-capillary-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=21842","title":{"rendered":"Flock set to release second album, <em>Flock II<\/em>; listen to first single &#8216;Capillary Waves\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21843\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Flock-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There\u00b4s wonderful news from UK supergroup <a href=\"https:\/\/flock.bandcamp.com\/album\/flock-ii\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flock<\/a>, the project that brings together a golden lineup of UK jazz stalwarts: Bex Burch (Vula Viel), Danalogue (The Comet Is Coming, Soccer96), Sarathy Korwar, Al MacSween (Maisha, Kefaya) and Tamar Osborn (Collocutor, Dele Sosimi, Unknown To Known). Following their self-titled debut album, which was one of our <a href=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=19656\">Album Picks of 2022<\/a>, Flock are back with their second album, <em>Flock II<\/em>. The album was recorded in the Welsh countryside where &#8220;they crafted unique &#8220;jump-off&#8221; devices for each justifypiece, drawing inspiration from unconventional structures and atmospheres&#8221;, as the press release describes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Flock II<\/em> arrives on October 25th through <a href=\"https:\/\/strut.k7store.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strut Records<\/a>, and ahead of it the band have shared the first single, \u2018Capillary Waves\u2019, which serves as an exhilarating taste of what&#8217;s to come. Take a listen below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2739052537\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=de270f\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=520917908\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flock.bandcamp.com\/album\/flock-ii\">Flock II by Flock<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In other related good news, Flock will perform live at London&#8217;s Jazz Caf\u00e9 on October 18th, alongside Ethiopian legend Mulatu Astatke, as part of the 25th anniversary of Strut Records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u00b4s wonderful news from UK supergroup Flock, the project that brings together a golden lineup of UK jazz stalwarts: Bex Burch (Vula Viel), Danalogue (The Comet Is Coming, Soccer96), Sarathy Korwar, Al MacSween (Maisha, Kefaya) and Tamar Osborn (Collocutor, Dele Sosimi, Unknown To Known). Following their self-titled debut album, which was one of our Album [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2696],"class_list":["post-21842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-flock"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21842","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=21842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21846,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21842\/revisions\/21846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}