{"id":169,"date":"2005-12-29T13:02:20","date_gmt":"2005-12-29T13:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=169"},"modified":"2005-12-29T13:02:20","modified_gmt":"2005-12-29T13:02:20","slug":"today-i-have-mostly-been-listening-to-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Today I have mostly been listening to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0006TL9JG\/qid=1135861372\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_ka_1\/026-4098042-3156450\">Veneer<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jose-gonzalez.com\/\">Jose Gonzalez<\/a>. Yes, the lower-than-lo-fi album with the track from the sony bravia advert. He&#8217;s very much in the same vein as Damien Rice except with a more restrained delivery and tastier guitar work. Not that Damien Rice is bad but Jose&#8217;s guitar playing is very special indeed. Think of Robert Johnson playing flamenco and you&#8217;ll have a feel for it. His pure and relaxed delivery of thoughtful lyrics is soothing and peaceful while edgier numbers recall David Kitt&#8217;s excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005KB46\/qid=1135862386\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_ka_1\/026-4098042-3156450\">&#8220;The  Big Romance&#8221;<\/a> album. The whole effect is like a gentle stroll down your favourite street on a soft autumn day nuzzled by a light breeze and a warm feeling of contentment. Alternatively, just go and buy the album and listen for yourself.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaisan.com\/blogs\/archives\/veneer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"veneer.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gaisan.com\/blogs\/archives\/veneer-thumb.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veneer by Jose Gonzalez. Yes, the lower-than-lo-fi album with the track from the sony bravia advert. He&#8217;s very much in the same vein as Damien Rice except with a more restrained delivery and tastier guitar work. Not that Damien Rice is bad but Jose&#8217;s guitar playing is very special indeed. Think of Robert Johnson playing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}