{"id":306,"date":"2004-02-17T23:01:11","date_gmt":"2004-02-17T22:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=306"},"modified":"2004-02-17T23:01:11","modified_gmt":"2004-02-17T22:01:11","slug":"ngozi-ngozi-ngozi-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/ngozi-ngozi-ngozi-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"ngozi ngozi ngozi\u2026 gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/dub\/graphics\/ngozi.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"courtesy Gladdy Wax\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ngozi &#8211; roots riddim of the year so far. A sort of watery, medieval soundscape with lots of plucked strings and <i>that<\/i> bassline, pulling you down.<\/p>\n<p>Inevitably this has been caned by Rodigan in the weeks <i>before<\/i> payday so that I&#8217;ve only been able to get hold of two of the cuts &#8211; the rest gone gone gone, please don&#8217;t let it be forever&#8230; records fall out of the ether on Sunday night and Monday morning&#8230; are they this great or is it just fatigue and futile resistance to sleep, the coming working week&#8230; tape rolling and some pointless adjustments to the aerial before bed&#8230; 5 more minutes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Luciano &#8211; &#8220;World Peace&#8221; and Bushman &#8220;Jah Deliver Me&#8221; &#8211; both great vocals on timeless (or formulaic, depending on your cynicism) themes. Great stuff, but I&#8217;d kill for a copy of the Tony Curtis selection &#8220;crabs in a barrel&#8221; and maybe do some GBH for the others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ngozi &#8211; roots riddim of the year so far. A sort of watery, medieval soundscape with lots of plucked strings and that bassline, pulling you down. Inevitably this has been caned by Rodigan in the weeks before payday so that I&#8217;ve only been able to get hold of two of the cuts &#8211; the rest &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/ngozi-ngozi-ngozi-gone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;ngozi ngozi ngozi\u2026 gone&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-reviews","category-reggae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}