{"id":167,"date":"2004-08-13T00:13:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-13T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/?p=167"},"modified":"2004-08-13T00:13:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-13T08:13:00","slug":"echobelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/echobelly\/","title":{"rendered":"echobelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this the first few notes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/cg\/amg.dll?p=amg&amp;token=ADFEAEE47B16D947A57520D39B3348E9A77AEA1ACF56FB9C1B6E495AD1A9675B9C1877F359E9D1D2B0F96AB679AFFB62A7500AD4C0EE57ECAD1B&amp;sql=11:ywf6zffheh3k\">Echobelly&#8217;s<\/a> album <i>Gravity Pulls<\/i> drift from my speakers and settle into my skin. This is the first time I&#8217;ve heard it, and the familiar golden thread of Sonya Aurora Madan&#8217;s voice drags an unexpected smile out of me. The fact that these cats aren&#8217;t bigger in the U.S. just blows my mind. They came close in 1995 with the album <i>On<\/i>, but since then, awareness has been on a steady decline. <i>People Are Expensive<\/i> was never even released in the States.<\/p>\n<p>Stream samples of the new album <a href=\"http:\/\/www.echobelly.com\/music\/index.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/blog\/images\/0804\/sonya.jpg\" alt=\"Sonya Madan of ECHOBELLLY\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this the first few notes of Echobelly&#8217;s album Gravity Pulls drift from my speakers and settle into my skin. This is the first time I&#8217;ve heard it, and the familiar golden thread of Sonya Aurora Madan&#8217;s voice drags an unexpected smile out of me. The fact that these cats aren&#8217;t bigger in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}