{"id":23739,"date":"2024-05-03T16:42:56","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T16:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=23739"},"modified":"2024-05-03T16:42:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T16:42:57","slug":"prog-ensemble-cymbalic-encounters-featuring-drummer-mark-murdock-to-release-african-inspired-new-album-afrika-mandalika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2024\/05\/03\/prog-ensemble-cymbalic-encounters-featuring-drummer-mark-murdock-to-release-african-inspired-new-album-afrika-mandalika\/","title":{"rendered":"Prog Ensemble Cymbalic Encounters Featuring Drummer Mark Murdock To Release African Inspired New Album \u201cAfrika Mandalika\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cymbalic Encounters displays its \u2018world music\u2019 side with the release of \u201cAfrika Mandalika,\u201d which features nine original progressive rock songs with an African twist of classic tribal and healing chants with rhythmical drums samples to offer authenticity to the tracks. Including titles like; \u201cRains of Waimba,\u201d \u201cVoodoo Supermarket\u201d and even \u201cBlack Magic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along with drummer Mark Murdock, guitarist Fernando Perdomo appears on a few songs like the upbeat opener, \u201cThe Fire Merchants\u201d and \u201cFestival of Miracles,\u201d an instrumental which also features Joe Berger on guitar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also contributing are vocalist Tim Pepper from the U.K., who was also greatly influenced by Peter Gabriel\u2019s work with Yassou N\u2019Dour. Further accompanying Mark are Japanese bassist, Kenta Shimokuni and Mark\u2019s son, Preston on guitar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Watch \u201cAfrika Mandalika\u201d Promotional Video:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/C-nz7sZMoUw?si=07Tv6lo8gTd7V1au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/C-nz7sZMoUw?si=07Tv6lo8gTd7V1au<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAfrika Mandalika\u201d track list:<br>The Fire Merchants<br>Rains of Waimba<br>Black Magic<br>Sacred Trees<br>Shadows from the Past<br>Festival of Miracles<br>Voodoo Supermarket<br>Windows and Skies<br>Surrounding Shadows<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Mark Murdock at Off-Shore Recordings Tokyo<br>Eventide Reverb, Delay, EQ and compression settings by Beam Audio N.Y.C, Joe Berger<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All words and music composed by Mark Murdock &#8211; Copyright 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>To purchase:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cymbalicencounters.bandcamp.com\/album\/afrika-mandalika\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/cymbalicencounters.bandcamp.com\/album\/afrika-mandalika<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cymbalic Encounters displays its \u2018world music\u2019 side with the release of \u201cAfrika Mandalika,\u201d which features&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[1417,125],"class_list":["post-23739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-news","tag-mark-murdock","tag-prog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23739","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=23739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23741,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23739\/revisions\/23741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}