{"id":32850,"date":"2026-05-20T17:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=32850"},"modified":"2026-05-20T17:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:01:11","slug":"blue-earth-sound-drops-second-single-japanese-green-off-upcoming-the-st-louis-sessions-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=32850","title":{"rendered":"Blue Earth Sound drops second single, &#8216;Japanese Green&#8217;, off upcoming <em>The St. Louis Sessions<\/em> EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-32851\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Earth-Sound-Japanese-Green.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>Following the magnetizing and lulling \u2018Chartreuse\u2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/blueearthsound\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blue Earth Sound<\/a> has shared new single &#8216;Japanese Green&#8217;. Both tracks are lifted from his forthcoming EP <em>The St. Louis Sessions<\/em>, the follow-up to last year\u2019s debut album <em>Cicero Nights<\/em>, which was one of our <a href=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=23636\">Album Picks of 2025<\/a>, and one we can&#8217;t put down. James Weir, the Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist, bandleader and composer behind Blue Earth Sound, recorded the EP in St. Louis, Missouri, with drummer and longtime collaborator Austin LeMoine, and a small group of musicians, including local horn players Jawaad Spaan and Josiah Burton.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Japanese Green&#8217; is a cinematic and delicious track partly inspired by 90s R&amp;B and Japanese Jazz. Of the track, Weir shares:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI wanted this one to feel like a swingin\u2019 cruiser, with strong unified horns. We settled on this A &amp; B structure, with the swing and groove at the start, but added sensitivity at the end with a nice, muted piano lead and delay floating over the top.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Listen to &#8216;Japanese Green&#8217; below and grab\u00a0<em>The St. Louis Sessions<\/em> EP when it drops on May 19th through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deepmatter.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DeepMatter Records<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2190284567\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=de270f\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=2477371782\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blueearthsound.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-st-louis-sessions-ep\">The St. Louis Sessions EP by Blue Earth Sound<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the magnetizing and lulling \u2018Chartreuse\u2019, Blue Earth Sound has shared new single &#8216;Japanese Green&#8217;. Both tracks are lifted from his forthcoming EP The St. Louis Sessions, the follow-up to last year\u2019s debut album Cicero Nights, which was one of our Album Picks of 2025, and one we can&#8217;t put down. James Weir, the Chicago-based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3356],"class_list":["post-32850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-blue-earth-sound"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32850","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=32850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32853,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32850\/revisions\/32853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}