{"id":27596,"date":"2025-07-01T17:03:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T17:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=27596"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:03:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T17:03:55","slug":"strompolos-center-of-the-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/strompolos-center-of-the-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Strompolos &#8211; Center of the X"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strompolos&#8217; &#8220;Center of the X&#8221; is a\u00a0multidimensional,\u00a0symbolic song that starts with beautiful synth melodies and builds into an elegant, slow ballad. The initial sound of the piano enhances the atmosphere, and when the vocals appear, the tune changes into a cinematic\u00a0trip. Strompolos creates a musical storytelling that is\u00a0nostalgic, drawing inspiration from David Bowie&#8217;s expressive approach and Peter Hammill&#8217;s theatrical passion. The vocals take center stage, combining poetic thought with enthusiastic performance to perfectly match the atmospheric music. The track obviously shows\u00a0influences from 1970s progressive rock ballads, but it never feels generic. Instead, Strompolos turns those inspirations into something of his own, using space, dynamics, and layered sounds to create drama\u00a0and relief in creative ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Center of the X by STROMPOLOS (Official Music Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-olH-O9sDR4?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:\/\/www.facebook.com\/seestrompolos\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/seestrompolos<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/strompolos.bandcamp.com\">https:\/\/strompolos.bandcamp.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/chrisstrompolos\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/chrisstrompolos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strompolos&#8217; &#8220;Center of the X&#8221; is a\u00a0multidimensional,\u00a0symbolic song that starts with beautiful synth melodies and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[226,125,4593],"class_list":["post-27596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop-rock-reviews","category-reviews","tag-classic-rock","tag-prog","tag-strompolos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27596","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=27596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27598,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27596\/revisions\/27598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}