{"id":16617,"date":"2020-11-17T19:38:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T03:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=16617"},"modified":"2020-12-03T21:29:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T05:29:48","slug":"review-terra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/review-terra\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: \u201cTerra\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Review of the digital-only album from Eric Alexandrakis<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Natalie Dean<\/strong> | Entertainment Editor\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new digital-only album from Grammy-nominated musician, Eric Alexandrakis, is hitting the mainstream. \u201cTerra\u201d has been described by producer, Minoan Music, takes heavy influence from the 1960s psychedelic pop and new wave music. They also build off pop-styles from the late \u201870s and \u201880s. Take all this and mix it with a decent amount of Pink Floyd vibes, and there\u2019s \u201cTerra,\u201d an alternative album that can be enjoyed by many.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This 28-track album is jam-packed with plenty of alternative songs for anyone who wants to explore new music. The concept for \u201cTerra,\u201d as described by the artist, is inspired by his adventures while traveling and manages to weave in a compelling and poignant narrative of the artist\u2019s life. Compared to his other albums, \u201cTerra\u201d has more of a unique feel with Alexandrakis\u2019 use of an ancient 16-track machine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Along with this, the tracks are crafted with the help of bass player John Taylor of Duran Duran. In these multi-layered songs, Alexandrakis takes the listener on an emotional journey with his artistic lyricism \u2014 \u201cTerra\u201d will take you for a wild ride from start to finish.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To follow some of the older stories Alexandrakis has produced, other albums like, \u201cI.V. CATATONIA: 20 Years As a Two-Time Cancer Survivor\u201d and \u201cHell On Earth\u201d can be found on Apple Music.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><b>Overall Rating<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: 7\/10, for the musical journey I went on. I would recommend this to people that enjoy exploring innovative music.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"4220\" height=\"82\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line.png 4220w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-300x6.png 300w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1024x20.png 1024w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-768x15.png 768w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1536x30.png 1536w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-2048x40.png 2048w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1080x21.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4220px) 100vw, 4220px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact the author at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:ndean17@wou.edu\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ndean17@wou.edu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review of the digital-only album from Eric Alexandrakis<\/p>\n<p>Natalie Dean | Entertainment Editor\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":16605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[313,343,348,161,347,344,54,350,279,280,346],"class_list":["post-16617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-album-review","tag-digital-album","tag-duran-duran","tag-entertainment","tag-john-taylor","tag-minoan-music","tag-music","tag-music-review","tag-natalie","tag-natalie-dean","tag-terra"],"modified_by":"The Western Howl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}