{"id":2286,"date":"2009-08-29T11:01:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T15:01:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-29T11:01:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T11:01:50","slug":"hear-factor-deux-turning-congolese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/hear-factor-deux-turning-congolese\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Factor, deux: Turning Congolese"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/hearfactor2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"449\" \/><\/div>\n<p>If there&#8217;s one thing we know about a number of us, there&#8217;s nothing we like better than being turned onto music from a foreign culture (and I don&#8217;t mean Canada or England, <strong>Townsmen mockcarr, andyr, chickenfrank, et al<\/strong>). If there&#8217;s something I&#8217;m even more sure of, there&#8217;s a larger number of us who shy away from anything that&#8217;s not rock &#8216;n roll, sung in English, etc. (And none of you is off the hook for your soft spot for show tunes!) Our latest <strong>Hear Factor<\/strong> collection is entitled <em>Turning Congolese<\/em>. I think the title is self-explanatory. I encourage you to download this zipped file, unzip it, and spend the next 3 days <em>living with it<\/em>. It may do you good. It may cause you psychic unrest. Whatever effect it has on you, we want to hear about it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/TurningCongolese.zip\">Turning Congolese (~74 MB)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><big>In particular, for this challenging mix, I summon <strong>mockcarr<\/strong> to listen to this disc, which was artfully designed to offend his sensibilities.<\/big><\/em><\/p>\n<p><small><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2009\/08\/08\/hear-factor-deux-lemgfinally-l-emg\">What&#8217;s Hear Factor?<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there&#8217;s one thing we know about a number of us, there&#8217;s nothing we like better than being turned onto music from a foreign culture (and I don&#8217;t mean Canada or England, Townsmen mockcarr, andyr, chickenfrank, et al). If there&#8217;s something I&#8217;m even more sure of, there&#8217;s a larger number of us who shy away <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/hear-factor-deux-turning-congolese\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[75],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}