{"id":453,"date":"2021-05-10T14:23:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T14:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desirock.com\/?p=453"},"modified":"2021-05-10T14:23:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T14:23:30","slug":"strands-project-brings-musical-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desirock.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/10\/strands-project-brings-musical-optimism\/","title":{"rendered":"STRANDS PROJECT BRINGS MUSICAL OPTIMISM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>\u2018Strands\u2019 is an electronica meets Sufi world music audio\/visual collaboration performance by award winning British Indian electronic music composer DJ Swami, popular British Iraqi vocalist Lanja Ali, upcoming British Indian fusion vocalist Unnati Dasgupta and BBC Music Introducing sarangi player Amrit Kaur. Strands is an emotional cinematic musical journey of solace and optimism fused with the uplifting Sufi and Qawwali lyrics of love and spirituality exploring the unique experiences of isolation, loneliness, belonging and soul searching in this different world we all find ourselves in.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/desirock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/STRANDS-FOUR-ARTISTS-768x512-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/desirock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/STRANDS-FOUR-ARTISTS-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/desirock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/STRANDS-FOUR-ARTISTS-768x512-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption><strong>DJ Swami, Lanja Ali, Unnati Dasgupta, Amrit Kaur<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/desirock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/prs-foundation-logotype-red-blue-rgb-large-1024x367-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-455\" width=\"376\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/desirock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/prs-foundation-logotype-red-blue-rgb-large-1024x367-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/desirock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/prs-foundation-logotype-red-blue-rgb-large-1024x367-1-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/desirock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/prs-foundation-logotype-red-blue-rgb-large-1024x367-1-768x275.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><figcaption><em>DJ Swami is supported by PRS Foundation\u2019s The Open Fund<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Strands\u2019 is an electronica meets Sufi world music audio\/visual collaboration performance by award winning British Indian electronic music composer DJ Swami, popular British Iraqi vocalist Lanja Ali, upcoming British Indian fusion vocalist Unnati Dasgupta and BBC Music Introducing sarangi player Amrit Kaur. Strands is an emotional cinematic musical journey of solace and optimism fused with&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/desirock.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/10\/strands-project-brings-musical-optimism\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">STRANDS PROJECT BRINGS MUSICAL OPTIMISM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desirock.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desirock.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desirock.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desirock.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desirock.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/desirock.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/desirock.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desirock.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desirock.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desirock.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}