{"id":2573,"date":"2021-09-01T14:55:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T14:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2573"},"modified":"2021-09-01T14:55:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T14:55:44","slug":"adam-gibbons-the-last-bastion-o-s-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2573","title":{"rendered":"adam gibbons &#8211; the last bastion (o.s.t.)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>after years releasing music under the name &#8216;<strong>lack of afro<\/strong>&#8216;, adam has decided to fulfill a bit of a passion of his &#8211; to make the soundtrack to a film that has yet to made.<br \/>hence the &#8216;o.s.t.&#8217; in the album name, and cover art that gives the album the look as a long forgotten gritty detective noir film.<br \/>as for the music ?<br \/>well, like the cover art, it too is very much of a style, i.e. 70&#8217;s funk soundtrack. <br \/>featuring big drums, big horns, fuzzed up wah-wah guitars, hammond organs, and a whole chunk of string sections.<br \/>with 22 tracks in just over 40 minutes, this is not an album of self indulgence.<br \/>the music swoops in, does what its needs to do in setting the mood of a certain type of scene that adam has in his head, and swoops out again.<br \/>certain melodies are repeated throughout, and with the same instrumentation template throughout, it makes for a very consistent listening experience.<br \/>think orchestral excess by <strong>david axelrod<\/strong>, big band soundtracks by <strong>john barry<\/strong>, the funkier aspects of the <strong>kpm library<\/strong>, and of course, <strong>david holmes<\/strong>, who once he moved on from his big beat\/electronica era headed for hollywood and created soundtracks for the &#8216;<em>oceans<\/em>&#8216; series, and the brilliant soundtrack for the film &#8216;<em>out of sight<\/em>&#8216;.<br \/>the end result just makes me want to see the film, and surely that&#8217;s the best compliment a soundtrack can be given.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">more detail<\/span> : <a href=\"https:\/\/adamgibbons.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>after years releasing music under the name &#8216;lack of afro&#8216;, adam has decided to fulfill a bit of a passion of his &#8211; to make the soundtrack to a film that has yet to made.hence the &#8216;o.s.t.&#8217; in the album name, and cover art that gives the album the look as a long forgotten gritty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2575,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions\/2575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}