{"id":1017,"date":"2020-06-16T09:57:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T08:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2021-08-19T16:07:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T15:07:44","slug":"exquisite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/?p=1017","title":{"rendered":"EXQUISITE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Current plague year 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After an April rendezvous in Valencia was necessarily cancelled, mekons adopted the &#8220;exquisite corpse&#8221; method as a means of collectively assembling lyrics and tunes and recording their new album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Locked down in various locations stretching from the West Coast of California to the East End of London, mekons sang and played into their cellphones, e-mailing, uploading and Whatsapping their wailings, beatings, scratchings and strummings across the globe through the billions of interconnected nodes of our networked panopticon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Exquisite was recorded in splendid physical isolation on mobile phones, broken cassette recorders, clay tablets &amp; other ancient technologies in Aptos, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York &amp; Devon in April and May 2020.<br>\nMike Hagler assembled the results in Chicago, which were mixed by The Baron (Dave Trumfio) in LA soon after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Exquisite is only available as a digital download and only through Bandcamp, beginning on Juneteenth (June 19). On that day, Bandcamp is donating 100% of their share of sales to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, with the pledge to do so &#8220;for every Juneteenth hereafter&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_9773-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_9773.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_9773-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_9773-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current plague year 2020. After an April rendezvous in Valencia was necessarily cancelled, mekons adopted the &#8220;exquisite corpse&#8221; method as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}