{"id":3695,"date":"2017-12-11T22:34:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T05:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocc.org\/?p=3695"},"modified":"2017-12-11T22:34:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T05:34:34","slug":"song-of-the-week-robbie-basho-variations-on-clair-de-lune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/2017\/12\/11\/song-of-the-week-robbie-basho-variations-on-clair-de-lune\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: Robbie Basho- &#8220;Variations on Clair de Lune&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Breaking the silence\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Of an ancient pond,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>A frog jumped into water-<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>A deep resonance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">-Matsuo Basho,\u00a0<em>The Narrow Road to the Deep North\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Daniel R. Robinson was an acoustic guitarist who changed his name to Robbie Basho in honor of the Japanese poet Matsuo Basho. Like Matsuo Basho&#8217;s poetry, Robbie Basho&#8217;s music captures a beauty and calmness deeply rooted in the natural world. In Robbie Basho&#8217;s rendition of Debussy&#8217;s piano solo &#8220;Clair de Lune,&#8221; \u00a0Basho&#8217;s guitar echoes the effects a piano&#8217;s sustaining pedal would produce in a typical performance of the song while adding a rugged folksiness and energy to the piece. \u00a0Take a listen:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Variations On Claire De Lune\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/5gP8ytgXOcX2Enq9yS5UHh?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking the silence\u00a0 Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water- A deep resonance. -Matsuo Basho,\u00a0The Narrow Road to the Deep North\u00a0 Daniel R. Robinson was an acoustic guitarist who changed his name to Robbie Basho in honor of the Japanese poet Matsuo Basho. Like Matsuo Basho&#8217;s poetry, Robbie Basho&#8217;s music captures a beauty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1129,"featured_media":3696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-music-of-the"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa7fJU-XB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}