{"id":430,"date":"2019-07-15T19:07:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T19:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/squishy-nobones.de\/?p=430"},"modified":"2019-12-08T20:50:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T19:50:29","slug":"squishys-album-of-the-week-vol-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/squishy-nobones.de\/?p=430","title":{"rendered":"SQuiShY&#8217;s aLbuM of tHE WeeK vOl. 16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Gentle Giant &#8211; Octopus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"762\" src=\"https:\/\/squishy-nobones.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/67178398_2281402498604093_8262096388221829120_o-1024x762.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/squishy-nobones.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/67178398_2281402498604093_8262096388221829120_o-1024x762.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/squishy-nobones.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/67178398_2281402498604093_8262096388221829120_o-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/squishy-nobones.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/67178398_2281402498604093_8262096388221829120_o-768x572.jpg 768w, https:\/\/squishy-nobones.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/67178398_2281402498604093_8262096388221829120_o.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, why might I have picked this one? Gentle Giant is one of the  greatest bands you\u2019ll most likely never have heard from. These rather  obscure progressive rockers managed to include not only Folk or Blues  and even some Jazz into their music or have not only included some  classical music. They added some Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque to it  and made it rock. They played multiple instruments and added trumpet,  saxophone, vibes, cello, violin and even recorders to their studio  albums but also live shows, switching around constantly. Can you imagine  a recorder quartet on a rock stage? Listen to their live album \u201cPlaying  the Fool\u201d. They can even sang something like a fugue. Sang! While  playing their instruments! These guys were absolutely nuts. All if their  albums are worth a listen, especially their self-titled debut or the  great \u201cFree Hand\u201d and \u201cThe Power and the Glory\u201d. But I picked this one  from 1972 for, well, obvious reasons. Great sleeve design by Roger  Dean&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gentle Giant &#8211; Octopus Well, why might I have picked this one? Gentle Giant is one of the greatest bands you\u2019ll most likely never have <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/squishy-nobones.de\/?p=430\">weiterlesen&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[36,37,14],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-of-the-week","tag-musicblog","tag-octopus","tag-oktopus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/squishy-nobones.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/squishy-nobones.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/squishy-nobones.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squishy-nobones.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squishy-nobones.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/squishy-nobones.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/squishy-nobones.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squishy-nobones.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/squishy-nobones.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squishy-nobones.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squishy-nobones.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}