{"id":32904,"date":"2026-06-03T14:37:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=32904"},"modified":"2026-06-03T14:37:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:37:02","slug":"akusmi-previews-upcoming-album-terra-incognita-with-second-single-rain-dance-featuring-sarathy-korwar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=32904","title":{"rendered":"Akusmi previews upcoming album, <em>Terra Incognita<\/em>, with second single &#8216;Rain Dance&#8217; featuring Sarathy Korwar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32905\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Akusmi-Photo-by-Dan-Medhurst.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We fell head over heels for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/akusmi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Akusmi<\/a>\u2019s new album, <em>Terra Incognita<\/em>, the second it was announced. Pascal Bideau, the ingenious French-born, London-based composer who spearheads the project, crafted a spellbinding collection of tracks. Seamlessly blending global and spiritual jazz with minimal repeating patterns, Akusmi&#8217;s forthcoming album is pulsing with the vibrant energy of Afrobeat, Highlife, and electronic Afro-pop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the bright, entrancing and uplifting \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=32799\">Anima<\/a>\u2019, Akusmi is teasing the album again with new single &#8216;Rain Dance&#8217;, an entrancing and high-energy song featuring virtuoso tabla player and drummer Sarathy Korwar. Listen to &#8216;Rain Dance&#8217; below and grab <em>Terra Incognita<\/em> when it drops on July 3rd through <a href=\"https:\/\/tonalunion.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tonal Union<\/a>.<br \/>\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1628778249\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=de270f\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=1628570092\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/akusmi.bandcamp.com\/album\/terra-incognita\">Terra Incognita by Akusmi<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We fell head over heels for Akusmi\u2019s new album, Terra Incognita, the second it was announced. Pascal Bideau, the ingenious French-born, London-based composer who spearheads the project, crafted a spellbinding collection of tracks. Seamlessly blending global and spiritual jazz with minimal repeating patterns, Akusmi&#8217;s forthcoming album is pulsing with the vibrant energy of Afrobeat, Highlife, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3558,2086],"class_list":["post-32904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-akusmi","tag-sarathy-korwar"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32904","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=32904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32907,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32904\/revisions\/32907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}