{"id":24112,"date":"2021-03-08T10:27:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T15:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=24112"},"modified":"2021-03-08T11:29:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T16:29:18","slug":"pardon-my-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/pardon-my-french\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardon My French"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we are connected on social media, some of you are already aware of this so feel free to skip to the next post.<\/p>\n<p>As a side project for the past few years, I have been writing songs in French, despite the fact that I don\u2019t speak the language. I wrote the lyrics using Google translate and a French rhyming dictionary. The music is an attempt at French Pop by a guy who just read a Wikipedia entry about it without actually hearing what it sounded like.<\/p>\n<p>I recorded them them with some friends in Philadelphia who play in such diverse groups as Philadelphia Ukulele Orchestra, the actual Philadelphia Orchestra, John Train, Magnolia Electric Company, Candy Volcano, Marah, Nixon&#8217;s Head, Rome 56, Baby Flamehead, the Low Road, Slo-Mo, the Silence, etc.<br \/>Long dormant Townsman General Slocum and Chicken Frank\u2019s better half both made excellent contributions.<\/p>\n<p>I finally got 4 of them mixed (three originals and an Ramones cover) at Studio 1935, and put them out as an EP. I plan to put at least one more EP out once I get them mixed too.<\/p>\n<p>These will be up on Spotify and Bandcamp soon but for now, they are on Soundcloud and Bandcamp. There\u2019s also a video on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the links. Profitez!<\/p>\n<p>Bandcamp:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/therodins.bandcamp.com\/album\/jeu-prolong-extended-play\">https:\/\/therodins.bandcamp.com\/album\/jeu-prolong-extended-play<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Soundcloud:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Rodins - Jeu Prolong\u00e9 (Extended Play) by cmalcarney\" width=\"695\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F1220412028&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=695&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Voyageur - the Rodins\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LE3iD5QLLfc?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we are connected on social media, some of you are already aware of this so feel free to skip to the next post. As a side project for the past few years, I have been writing songs in French, despite the fact that I don\u2019t speak the language. I wrote the lyrics using Google <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/pardon-my-french\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24112"}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}