{"id":6977,"date":"2014-01-09T20:36:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T20:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=6977"},"modified":"2014-01-09T20:36:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T20:36:02","slug":"ibibio-sound-machine-set-to-release-debut-album-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=6977","title":{"rendered":"Ibibio Sound Machine set to release debut album next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6978\" alt=\"Ibibio Sounds Machine\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ibibio-Sounds-Machine-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ibibio-Sounds-Machine-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ibibio-Sounds-Machine-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ibibio-Sounds-Machine.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">British-Nigerian 8-piece collective <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibibiosoundmachine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ibibio Sound Machine<\/a> are probably making the best party music you&#8217;re likely to hear this year. Fronted by London-born Nigerian singer Eno Williams, her mother&#8217;s South-Eastern Nigerian Ibibio language gives the name to the band.\u00a0 Williams&#8217; lyrics are also inspired by folk stories told to her by her family as a child. The Octet&#8217;s explosive genre-fusing sound combines elements of West African highlife, disco, funk, post-punk &amp; psychedelic electro soul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Late February will see the release of Ibibio Sound Machine&#8217;s debut full-length album via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundwayrecords.com\" target=\"_blank\">Soundway Records<\/a>. Ahead of it, they&#8217;ve spiced things up already with their incendiary first single &#8216;Let&#8217;s Dance (Yak Inek Unek). Play it loud!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/121982803&amp;color=c41709&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=false\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British-Nigerian 8-piece collective Ibibio Sound Machine are probably making the best party music you&#8217;re likely to hear this year. Fronted by London-born Nigerian singer Eno Williams, her mother&#8217;s South-Eastern Nigerian Ibibio language gives the name to the band.\u00a0 Williams&#8217; lyrics are also inspired by folk stories told to her by her family as a child. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[945],"class_list":["post-6977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-ibibio-sound-machine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977","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=6977"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6982,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977\/revisions\/6982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}