{"id":19225,"date":"2023-07-25T19:26:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T19:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/?p=19225"},"modified":"2023-07-25T19:26:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T19:26:43","slug":"speak-easy-circus-gros-michel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/?p=19225","title":{"rendered":"Speak Easy Circus &#8211; Gros Michel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<br><p>The lyrics of the song &#8216;Gros Michel&#8217; tells about the banana industry, which on the one hand brings joy and pleasure by bringing a banana to the table, and on the other hand brings pain and tears due to the financing of criminal companies that also trade in bananas.&nbsp;<\/p><br><p>The vocalist leads an emotional story perfectly conveying the atmosphere of the song with his velvet vocals. Funk-rock with the addition of a jazz brass section performs an amazing groove. The whole track is permeated with energy and crescendo rises, and a magnificent guitar solo logically translates into the final anthemic choruses.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p><br><p>Listen to the single &#8216;Gros Michel&#8217; below on Spotify and enjoy the new track from the fantastic Speak Easy Circus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Gros Michel\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/30kMvHYrehByotlqBEDKVP?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 20, a new single by the British band Speak Easy Circus was released. The song is called &#8216;Gros Michel&#8217; and it is a kind of manifesto of how we do not pay attention to seemingly small things that are behind big evil deeds.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20,14],"class_list":["post-19225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-single-reviews","tag-funk-rock","tag-uk"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_7585-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19229,"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19225\/revisions\/19229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}