{"id":5209,"date":"2023-02-19T07:36:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T07:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=5209"},"modified":"2023-02-19T07:36:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T07:36:12","slug":"single-review-voices-of-jericho-survibers-ft-aniff-akinola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2023\/02\/19\/single-review-voices-of-jericho-survibers-ft-aniff-akinola\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: &#8220;Voices Of Jericho&#8221; &#8211; Survibers ft. Aniff Akinola"},"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 title=\"Spotify Embed: Voices of Jericho\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/1R0IgyQ00DjugDXLDLvMoL?si=WH8tON81Tkud-96z5Ygb0w&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"740\" height=\"736\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_1800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_1800.jpg 740w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_1800-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_1800-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_1800-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Survibers are back and they\u2019ve deployed a true wordsmith in Aniff Akinola.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s given a fantastic backdrop of slap bass<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>which slips between that and a squelchy synth bass, over a chilled out hip hop beat with a synth pad playing some dark progressions.<\/p>\n<p>The vocals are ethereal, Katrina has switched gears here as she\u2019s got a real soulful voice and this shows off her skills as a vocalist. I am impressed!<\/p>\n<p>Aniff comes in with bars that flow naturally, and sits on the beat perfectly, this is a great slice of hip hop aided with pitched down vocals that come and go.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This collaboration is a fruitful one.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> SURVIBERS is a collective of like-minded creatives who live, love and work<br \/>within music, yet they have found it necessary to create a space where raw<br \/>and fertile ideas are allowed to flourish. <br \/>\u2028<br \/>The trio are ex Berklee students Francis and Katrina King-Smith and Aniff Akinola. The Survibers sonic canvas can be described as &#8216;a socialist\/left leaning blend of vocally hedonistic space invading trance-like musings welded to &#8216;trip hop&#8217; beats interspersed with galactic jazz.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Aniff has worked with A Guy Called Gerald, Urban Cookie Collective, and many others to his name&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I like this guy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Survibers are back and they\u2019ve deployed a true wordsmith in Aniff Akinola.\u00a0 He\u2019s given a fantastic backdrop of slap bass\u00a0 which slips between that and a squelchy synth bass, over a chilled out hip hop beat with a synth pad playing some dark progressions. The vocals are ethereal, Katrina has switched gears here as she\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5210,"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":[42,118,129,172,31,30,142,140,150,175,287,243,162,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-band","category-bass","category-drums","category-hip-hop","category-keyboards","category-music","category-producer","category-review","category-songwriter","category-soul","category-track-of-the-day","category-u-s","category-uk","category-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209","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=5209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5211,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209\/revisions\/5211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}