{"id":223,"date":"2012-02-04T17:25:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T00:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/?p=223"},"modified":"2012-02-04T17:25:47","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T00:25:47","slug":"rachel-sermanni-the-fog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/2012\/02\/04\/rachel-sermanni-the-fog\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Sermanni \u2013 The Fog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rachel Sermanni - The Fog\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cf5XuyLiw1U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Quick Review on Rachel Sermanni \u2013 Black Currents EP (2012)<\/p>\n<p>Like Laura Marling, nineteen-year-old Scottish neo-folk songwriter Sermanni has won praise for her exceptionally mature and artful music, taking acoustic melodies and expanding them into cinematic pieces of uncommon depth\u2026new four-track EP was produced by Ian Grimble (Travis, Daughter) and is being promoted via the excellent Communion family of artists co-managed by Mumford and Sons Ben Lovett<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like: Sermanni finds that sweet spot between refreshingly unadorned directness and artful ornamentation, quiet laments and soaring orchestration all centered around a darting sand-textured voice that moves from tumbling lyricism to moments of serene, sweeping grandeur\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Quote: \u201cDreams are a good reflection of what songs are. It\u2019s quite a nice way to think about it. When I have a good dream, things are sorted out in my head and when I have a good song things are sorted out in my head. And everyone has their different interpretations of dreams and it\u2019s the same with songs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What we like: songs like the marvelous \u201cBreathe Easy\u201d deceptively drift from languid chamber-folk to something grander \u2014 by the time the final notes fade it suddenly dawns that despite the understated simplicity this is something special indeed\u2026\u201dSong For A Fox\u201d, our first introduction to Sermanni last year, ingratiates with a vocal so soft and rich you can practically feel her breath on your ear\u2026The minor chord minimalism and haunting strings of \u201cThe Fog\u201d bring the song\u2019s dark underpinnings slowly to the surface\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.townsend-records.co.uk\/i\/covers\/10006283.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick Review on Rachel Sermanni \u2013 Black Currents EP (2012) Like Laura Marling, nineteen-year-old Scottish neo-folk songwriter Sermanni has won praise for her exceptionally mature and artful music, taking acoustic melodies and expanding them into cinematic pieces of uncommon depth\u2026new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/2012\/02\/04\/rachel-sermanni-the-fog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29,35,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indie-folk","category-indie-pop","category-music-videos","category-new-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}