{"id":17892,"date":"2022-11-06T19:41:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T19:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=17892"},"modified":"2022-11-06T19:41:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T19:41:56","slug":"rick-denzien-the-secret-christmas-song-track-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2022\/11\/06\/rick-denzien-the-secret-christmas-song-track-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Denzien &#8211; The Secret Christmas Song (track review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From Buffalo, New York, comes an artist named Rick Denzien who is emerging thanks to the songwriting that has sparked the creation of his latest CD, RADIATE. This review considers a holiday-themed track called &#8220;The Secret Christmas Song&#8221; that addresses poverty, consumerism and is an anti-war song at Christmas time. The Christmas bells and the happy 1960s guitar part pave the way for a guitar riff that follows afterwards, probably inspired by the mighty band of The Who. Additional piano parts are provided here in combination with the &#8220;Who&#8221;-driven riff, which paints a smile on my face as I understand that this is a cool orchestration for classic rock fans. Vocal lines come next to complete the puzzle, but at this point, my listening mood becomes &#8220;cloudy&#8221; because some kind of effect or the audio mix creates a &#8220;metallic&#8221; effect that is a little bit annoying to my ears. As the back vocals take over the stage, I am returning to my normal mode and enjoying again the uptempo feeling of the track. I have to give additional credit to the artist for creating an interesting antithesis by using happy chords to address a dark and significant theme such as poverty or war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Christmas Secret Song (Rick)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oswrfNmvIh4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/6QCgJt7lNKsBDvXXq4zx0C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><br>Spotify track link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Release Date :Nov 1, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Buffalo, New York, comes an artist named Rick Denzien who is emerging thanks to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[2367],"class_list":["post-17892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop-rock-reviews","category-reviews","tag-rick-denzien"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17894,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17892\/revisions\/17894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}