{"id":7948,"date":"2014-07-26T17:27:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T16:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=7948"},"modified":"2014-07-26T17:27:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T16:27:51","slug":"land-observationss-new-album-out-on-monday-closing-track-return-to-ravenna-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=7948","title":{"rendered":"Land Observations&#8217;s new album out on Monday, closing track &#8216;Return To Ravenna&#8217; unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7961\" alt=\"Land Observations - The Grand Tour\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Land-Observations-The-Grand-Tour-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Land-Observations-The-Grand-Tour-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Land-Observations-The-Grand-Tour-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Land-Observations-The-Grand-Tour.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This Monday, multi-instrumentalist and fine artist James Brooks, the man behind <a href=\"http:\/\/landobservations.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Land Observations<\/a>, will release the follow-up to his 2012 debut album <em>Roman Roads IV-XI<\/em>. Aptly entitled <em>The Grand Tour<\/em>, Land Observations&#8217; upcoming\u00a0 &#8220;album creates an imaginary travelogue through Western, Central and Southern Europe with reference to the historic Grand Tour, a traditional rite of passage for wealthy University graduates, finding popularity in the 18th century and commencing the idea of \u2018tourism\u2019 as we know it.&#8217;, as the press release describes.<br \/>\nTo entice us further, Land Observations has shared the utterly beautiful closing track, &#8216;Return To Ravenna&#8217;. Give it a listen now.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/157784100&amp;color=c41709&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Grand Tour<\/em> is out on July 28th via <a href=\"http:\/\/mute.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mute<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Monday, multi-instrumentalist and fine artist James Brooks, the man behind Land Observations, will release the follow-up to his 2012 debut album Roman Roads IV-XI. Aptly entitled The Grand Tour, Land Observations&#8217; upcoming\u00a0 &#8220;album creates an imaginary travelogue through Western, Central and Southern Europe with reference to the historic Grand Tour, a traditional rite of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1079],"class_list":["post-7948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-land-observations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948","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=7948"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7964,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948\/revisions\/7964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}