{"id":20,"date":"2008-01-15T00:36:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T15:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankyouforthehorse.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2008-01-19T21:04:16","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T12:04:16","slug":"alek-szahala-voices-of-babylon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Alek Szahala &#8211; Voices of Babylon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The start of the year sees a new preview from Alek Szahala, after <em>Rebirth of Maruuk<\/em> and <em>Iron Squid <\/em>finally see a CD release on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finrg.com\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_cd_info&amp;products_id=278\"><em>Hakkapeliitta<\/em><\/a> compilation, and once again it&#8217;s fabulous. If <em>Alanara, Last of the Mohicans, <\/em>and <em>Lagas <\/em>appear slightly more conventional (if still absolutely excellent), <em>Voices of Babylon <\/em>marks a return to the style of his older tracks. Indeed, Alek himself describes the tune as &#8216;Something between Maruuk and Balag Lamara&#8217; (and if I understood\/guessed correctly from his description on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/klubitus.org\/\">Klubitus<\/a><\/em>, a bit of <em>Iron Squid<\/em>, too). Whatever the influences, the arrangement and melodies are almost beyond belief &#8211; although a few other artists have gained rather more exposure recently, <em>VoB<\/em> shows once again that Alek really does remain on a entirely different level.<\/p>\n<p><em>Voices of Babylon <\/em>can be found in the download section of <a href=\"http:\/\/alek.szahala.com\/\">Alek Szahala&#8217;s<\/a> site.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.finrg.com\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_cd_info&amp;products_id=278\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The start of the year sees a new preview from Alek Szahala, after Rebirth of Maruuk and Iron Squid finally see a CD release on the Hakkapeliitta compilation, and once again it&#8217;s fabulous. If Alanara, Last of the Mohicans, and Lagas appear slightly more conventional (if still absolutely excellent), Voices of Babylon marks a return [&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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","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=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}