{"id":4327,"date":"2022-02-18T10:33:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T10:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=4327"},"modified":"2022-02-18T12:41:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T12:41:51","slug":"single-review-jouska-josephine-pascoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2022\/02\/18\/single-review-jouska-josephine-pascoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: &#8220;Jouska&#8221; &#8211; Josephine Pascoe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spotify Embed: Jouska\" width=\"100%\" height=\"80\" style=\"[object Object]\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/2sENZJhRtIlTn6GMl6lLCN?si=530648b9cf744229&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>This instrumental is\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Full of life.<\/p>\n<p>In a time when the world needs to get up and celebrate what we have, this track hits the spot.<\/p>\n<p>Josephine plays the violin and flute on this and while you wouldn\u2019t really associate the violin and flute occupying the melody line for jazz and funk, she does it and she does it so well! This is the kind of thing I think the late great \u201cRandom Access Memories\u201d era Daft Punk would appreciate, because it\u2019s got that slick late 70\u2019s production feel to it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The bit I really appreciate in this is at 1:54 where there\u2019s a breakdown &#8211; just keys, congas, wah\u2019d guitars, hi hats\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Oh Lord.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Loving the space age synth line in there too, it\u2019s taken me to funk heaven!<\/p>\n<p>At 2:57 there\u2019s a slower part where the violin, piano and acoustic guitar do the work before there is a drum fill back where the instruments all come back in\u2026 Everything is shining here!<\/p>\n<p>I love the bass line, really funky, reminiscent of Nathan East and Abraham Laboriel Senior\u2026<\/p>\n<p>All in all top draw track! I need to turn it back up again!<\/p>\n<p>Josephine is a pianist, flautist, violinist and creative from the edge of London UK, and this is a collaboration with guitarist and producer Neil Thom.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s had kudos from my buddy Neil March over at Trust The Doc, and I trust his judgment, in his words\u2026<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything Josephine writes and records . . . exudes class and musicianship\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He ain\u2019t lyin\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"741\" height=\"732\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_B18E21277109-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_B18E21277109-1.jpeg 741w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_B18E21277109-1-300x296.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_B18E21277109-1-61x60.jpeg 61w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 741px) 100vw, 741px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This instrumental is\u2026 Full of life. In a time when the world needs to get up and celebrate what we have, this track hits the spot. Josephine plays the violin and flute on this and while you wouldn\u2019t really associate the violin and flute occupying the melody line for jazz and funk, she does it &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4328,"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":[118,129,52,139,31,143,30,153,37,142,140,150,175,217,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bass","category-drums","category-guitar","category-jazz","category-keyboards","category-london","category-music","category-percussion","category-piano","category-producer","category-review","category-songwriter","category-soul","category-violin","category-woodwind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327","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=4327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4332,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327\/revisions\/4332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}