{"id":194,"date":"2018-02-04T17:45:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T22:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patrickmauro.net\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2021-12-30T19:42:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T00:42:24","slug":"light-sweet-ep-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrickmauro.net\/blog\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Light &#038; Sweet&#8221; EP Coming Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m happy to announce I&#8217;m working on the finishing touches of my first actual music release, <strong>&#8220;Light &amp; Sweet&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; a 20-minute soundtrack album to a short film-slash-pilot I worked on together with <strong>Pablo Panda Productions<\/strong> about a year ago about the trials and tribulations of working in a stressful coffee shop (Which is something I can relate to, having worked at Starbucks in a &#8220;previous life&#8221;). While not exactly &#8220;jazz,&#8221; this record definitely has a jazz &#8220;flavor&#8221; to it.<\/p>\n<p>Although I&#8217;ve got about 15 years of backlogged material built up that I&#8217;ve never released, I thought focusing on this most recent music project first would be a great way of &#8220;testing the waters&#8221; &#8211; the plan is to release on Bandcamp, and if things go well, I&#8217;ll see about preparing some other material for future release as well.<\/p>\n<p>While I wrote &amp; produced all the material on the record, I couldn&#8217;t have done it without the help of my good friend Jake Reid who manned guitar &amp; bass on the recording, Mike Bognar who remastered all the material to prepare for the release, and of course, the film&#8217;s fearless director, Gregg Ellson, who provided crucial guidance throughout the entire writing process.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more updates, but for now, here&#8217;s a preview clip from one of the tracks on the record, which should give an idea of the &#8220;hybrid jazz&#8221; style I went for on the project.<\/p>\n<p><!--<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/325856473&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>--><br \/>\n<audio controls=\"\"><source src=\"\/files\/Bullshitting is just Part of Learning (Short Version).mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m happy to announce I&#8217;m working on the finishing touches of my first actual music release, &#8220;Light &amp; Sweet&#8221; &#8211; a 20-minute soundtrack album to a short film-slash-pilot I worked on together with Pablo Panda Productions about a year ago &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patrickmauro.net\/blog\/?p=194\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmauro.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmauro.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmauro.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmauro.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmauro.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmauro.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmauro.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmauro.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmauro.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmauro.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}