{"id":28790,"date":"2025-10-30T21:26:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T21:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=28790"},"modified":"2025-10-30T21:26:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T21:26:26","slug":"tom-katz-moon-dancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2025\/10\/30\/tom-katz-moon-dancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Katz &#8211; Moon Dancer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Moon Dancer&#8221; by Tom Katz is a short nevertheless fascinating audio story that feels like a missing fragment from a 1970s giallo film soundtrack. The song begins with experimental guitar sounds and cinematic backing vocals,\u00a0creating a strange, exploratory mood characteristic of Goblin or Ennio Morricone&#8217;s more surreal moments. As the music evolves, minor blues notes enter the mix, giving the composition a smoky, nighttime atmosphere before bursting into an unexpected a cappella section. From about 1:30 onward, the vocals take center stage, becoming minimalist, hypnotic, and almost ritualistic, reminding of Philip Glass&#8217;s early works&#8217; hypnotic repetition. Despite its short runtime of 1:48, &#8220;Moon Dancer&#8221; feels full and moving, like a passing dream or a cinematic interlude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-4-3 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=\"MOON DANCER\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t9KQRuztmQc?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:\/\/tomkatz.bandcamp.com\">https:\/\/tomkatz.bandcamp.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Moon Dancer&#8221; by Tom Katz is a short nevertheless fascinating audio story that feels like&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[281,4152],"class_list":["post-28790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop-rock-reviews","category-reviews","tag-experimental","tag-tom-katz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28790","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=28790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28792,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28790\/revisions\/28792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}