{"id":3855,"date":"2021-11-27T18:33:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T18:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=3855"},"modified":"2021-11-27T18:33:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T18:33:20","slug":"single-review-sai-ram-balladeste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2021\/11\/27\/single-review-sai-ram-balladeste\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: &#8220;Sai Ram&#8221; &#8211; Balladeste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has a gorgeous Celtic feel, violin leading the way, and it just whisks you away across windswept greenery\u2026 It\u2019s a gorgeous melody that just made me close my eyes and dream\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It reminds me of something I\u2019d hear as a romantic theme in a film, introducing the heroine with attitude, the leader, the heart of the group. It\u2019s funny how these pieces give you that imagery, and this does it really well. I love a good instrumental, and the arrangements are bang on.<\/p>\n<p>So, who are <strong>Balladeste<\/strong>? Well they\u2019re a duo comprised of Preetha Narayanan (violin) and Tara Franks (cello). They describe themselves as indo-baroque meets alt folk minimalism. They\u2019ve been played on BBC Radio 3 and discussed on BBC Radio 4\u2019s Women\u2019s Hour, and are supported using Arts Council England funding, as well as the PRS Open Fund and Women Make Music. Having had a look at their website they\u2019ve got some great videos on there too, my favourite being Dina Dukhio.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah.<\/p>\n<p>They can play stringed instruments beautifully.<\/p>\n<p>But then you hear them sing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 NO SPOILERS! But do go check them out.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spotify Embed: Sai Ram\" width=\"100%\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/6bX09Cev5Zj1784eV787wy?si=fa33463d60144c0d&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"739\" height=\"733\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_FB1342319CCB-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_FB1342319CCB-1.jpeg 739w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_FB1342319CCB-1-300x298.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_FB1342319CCB-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_FB1342319CCB-1-60x60.jpeg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 739px) 100vw, 739px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has a gorgeous Celtic feel, violin leading the way, and it just whisks you away across windswept greenery\u2026 It\u2019s a gorgeous melody that just made me close my eyes and dream\u2026 It reminds me of something I\u2019d hear as a romantic theme in a film, introducing the heroine with attitude, the leader, the heart &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,145,146,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-band","category-cello","category-classical-music","category-violin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3857,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions\/3857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}