{"id":1333,"date":"2023-02-25T19:04:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T19:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/velvetbluemusic.com\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2023-11-03T17:02:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T17:02:33","slug":"charity-empressa-a-riot-of-snowflakes-pre-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velvetbluemusic.com\/?p=1333","title":{"rendered":"Charity Empressa &#8216;A Riot Of Snowflakes&#8217; pre-order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new Charity Empressa record is now available\u00a0<strong><a href=\"\/?product=1541\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/velvetbluemusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/charitypack.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1334\" src=\"https:\/\/velvetbluemusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/charitypack.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/velvetbluemusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/charitypack.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/velvetbluemusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/charitypack-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/velvetbluemusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/charitypack-60x80.jpeg 60w, https:\/\/velvetbluemusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/charitypack-110x147.jpeg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For fans of : Godspeed You Black Emperor, or His Name Is Alive, maybe This Mortal Coil . . . it\u2019s a controlled experiment in sound and melody.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been two decades since Charity Empressa debuted in 2001. Indie-rock scions Eric Campuzano (Lassie Foundation, Prayer Chain, Cush) and Frank Lenz (Headphones, Starflyer 59, Richard Swift), though, decided to revisit the project for 2023\u2019s \u201cA Riot of Snowflakes,\u201d a process the pair started long before the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Charity Empressa took a twenty-year hiatus, a twenty-year old four track, a Maxell cassette tape; with a sound, with a note, with a chord and made a new soundtrack.\u00a0 None of this would have been done without the collaborators:\u00a0 Domo Domoracki, Tess Shapiro (Tess &amp; Dave), David Vandervelde (Father John Misty), Eli Thomson (Father John Misty, Richard Swift), Travis Trevisan (Tape Deck Mountain), Josh Hagquist (The Beautiful Mistake), and Scott Huckabey.<\/p>\n<p>The record was mixed and mastered by Chris Colbert, with artwork by Jamey Bozeman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Charity Empressa record is now available\u00a0here. For fans of : Godspeed You Black Emperor, or His Name Is Alive, maybe This Mortal Coil . . . it\u2019s a controlled experiment in sound and melody. It\u2019s been two decades since Charity Empressa debuted in 2001. Indie-rock scions Eric Campuzano (Lassie Foundation, Prayer Chain, Cush)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velvetbluemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/velvetbluemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/velvetbluemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velvetbluemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velvetbluemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/velvetbluemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velvetbluemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velvetbluemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velvetbluemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velvetbluemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}