{"id":362,"date":"2020-07-14T11:15:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T19:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2020-10-01T12:29:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T20:29:41","slug":"new-old-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/14\/new-old-music\/","title":{"rendered":"New Old Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many years ago I was asked to prepare some background music for a student documentary on the WESTPAC Rescue Helicopter. One of the briefs, as I saw it, was to have music that could be chopped about and rearranged to suit the final editing. This is my excuse for choosing a theme and repeating it with variations. Unashamedly pulling equally from Ravel&#8217;s Bolero and, naturally, Emerson&#8217;s Abaddon&#8217;s Bolero on Trilogy. A lead guitar comes out for the finale, respecting Mike Oldfield circa 1978.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was never super-happy with the draft version I turned in for the film production, which &#8211; perhaps just as well &#8211; was never completed. So as a breather after working on my second album, I decided to re-record this, using Hyperion Strings; Roland D550; XLN Addictive Drums; Roland VK8, and the Gibson L6S for authentic Oldfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-soundcloud wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WESTPAC Bolero 2020 by The Prodigal Sounds\" width=\"676\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F857877040&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=676\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If I&#8217;d thought of it, I would have included this track on the &#8220;Inevitable Bonus Disc&#8221;, which you can find at<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/theprodigalsounds.bandcamp.com\" target=\"_blank\">theprodigalsounds.bandcamp.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago I was asked to prepare some background music for a student documentary on the WESTPAC Rescue Helicopter. One of the briefs, as I saw it, was to have music that could be chopped about and rearranged to suit the final editing. This is my excuse for choosing a theme and repeating it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songs","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}