{"id":1596,"date":"2016-07-03T00:30:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T15:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankyouforthehorse.com\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2016-07-03T00:30:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T15:30:51","slug":"in-praise-of-shadows-cd-1-track-4-alek-szahala-enuma-elish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=1596","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Shadows CD 1 Track 4: Alek Sz\u00e1hala &#8211; Enuma Elish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/271868832&amp;color=73ab43&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no secret that without Alek Sz\u00e1hala&#8217;s music I wouldn&#8217;t have set off down the freeform rabbit hole 10 years ago, and so I&#8217;m very honoured to have one of Alek&#8217;s finest tracks of recent years as part of <em>In Praise of Shadows<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Dark and psychedelic in the style of years past,\u00a0<em>Enuma Elish\u00a0<\/em>goes beyond that with improved production and a superb master that easily stands up to anything appearing now. Some might not be aware that the track is actually a nine-minute epic, and this newest version features a number of elements not heard in Alek&#8217;s Live PA sets.<\/p>\n<p>It says a lot for the strength of the compilation that an Alek Sz\u00e1hala track fits so well into the tracklist, and speaks to the unified atmosphere that I&#8217;m so happy with. As with Guld, I owe Alek a lot of thanks for his early support &#8211; this wouldn&#8217;t be happening without him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that without Alek Sz\u00e1hala&#8217;s music I wouldn&#8217;t have set off down the freeform rabbit hole 10 years ago, and so I&#8217;m very honoured to have one of Alek&#8217;s finest tracks of recent years as part of In Praise of Shadows. Dark and psychedelic in the style of years past,\u00a0Enuma Elish\u00a0goes beyond that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/1598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}