{"id":5212,"date":"2023-02-20T10:40:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T10:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=5212"},"modified":"2023-02-20T10:44:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T10:44:38","slug":"single-review-carry-the-load-james-numbere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2023\/02\/20\/single-review-carry-the-load-james-numbere\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: &#8220;Carry The Load&#8221; &#8211; James Numbere"},"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: Carry the Load\" 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\/3oazEEtowQ4r7gIquqwg0C?si=pQv8cNfDRlq-9jYWmkL4sQ&#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=\"733\" height=\"741\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_1812.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_1812.jpg 733w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_1812-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_1812-59x60.jpg 59w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 733px) 100vw, 733px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>James Numbere is back and he\u2019s brought us a gospel song that is just gorgeous.<\/p>\n<p>Mixed with African percussion, acoustic guitars, piano and strings this just hits the spot.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The lyrics appeal to God for help in carrying the load, and recognises that we are after all human with very human physicalities &#8211; the lyrics speak of not being able to handle certain experiences in life, sleepless nights, days in tears.<\/p>\n<p>The harmonies are nicely layered, especially in the chorus, and James\u2019s overall vocal performance on this has me really appreciating what he\u2019s capable of.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The time signature on this is brilliant by the way!<\/p>\n<p>James Numbere is a singer songwriter from London, originally from Port Harcourt Nigeria. He first came to my attention when I heard \u201cTamuno Bo\u201d, which absolutely blew me away.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Numbere is back and he\u2019s brought us a gospel song that is just gorgeous. Mixed with African percussion, acoustic guitars, piano and strings this just hits the spot.&nbsp; The lyrics appeal to God for help in carrying the load, and recognises that we are after all human with very human physicalities &#8211; the lyrics &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5213,"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":[221,145,219,129,294,143,215,153,73,150,175,287,217,126,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afrobeat","category-cello","category-choir","category-drums","category-gospel-music","category-london","category-nigeria","category-percussion","category-singer-songwriter","category-songwriter","category-soul","category-track-of-the-day","category-violin","category-vocals","category-world-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212","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=5212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5215,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212\/revisions\/5215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}