{"id":21231,"date":"2021-07-02T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=21231"},"modified":"2021-07-02T09:16:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T16:16:40","slug":"new-music-revue-the-homeless-gospel-choir-get-raw-on-live-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2021\/07\/02\/new-music-revue-the-homeless-gospel-choir-get-raw-on-live-album\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: The Homeless Gospel Choir get raw on live album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/a1688642515_10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21232\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/a1688642515_10-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/a1688642515_10-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/a1688642515_10.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/a1688642515_10-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Homeless Gospel Choir<br \/>\n<em>This Is a Protest Song<br \/>\n<\/em>(A-F Records)<br \/>\n2\/5<\/p>\n<p>Derek Zanetti is a singer\/songwriter from Pittsburgh who has travelled the world singing acoustic punk rock protest songs. Many of his songs deal with global politics, addiction, and mental-health struggles.<\/p>\n<p>The live <em>This Is a Protest Song<\/em> has a very unique tone and is very raw\u2014an intentional choice. Zanetti recorded the album on his cell phone to capture the essence of a live performance. He says that after the past year of COVID-19 restrictions, he wanted to release the album as a reminder of what it feels and sounds like to be at an in-person concert. The mistakes, applause, and cheering of the audience have all been left in for an authentic and unrefined sound.<\/p>\n<p>The nature of this album is very candid; it is quite intense at times. Many songs have a pent-up energy with crude language and symbolism intertwined into the punk rock. Having an occasional cheer from the crowd can be a nice touch, but, due to the nature of the recording, it does more to obscure the music than it does to provide ambience.<\/p>\n<p>While the unrefined sound of the crowd does make a statement, it\u2019s best used in limited quantities. Harsh sounds like those found on this album can be difficult to sit through, especially when listened to on headphones.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Got something to say? Write a letter to the editor at <a href=\"mailto:editor@nexusnewspaper.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">editor@nexusnewspaper.com<\/a>. Letters may be edited for clarity and printed.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Homeless Gospel Choir This Is a Protest Song (A-F Records) 2\/5 Derek Zanetti is a singer\/songwriter from Pittsburgh who has travelled the world singing acoustic punk rock protest songs. Many of his songs deal with global politics, addiction, and mental-health struggles. The live This Is a Protest Song has a very unique tone and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21240,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21231\/revisions\/21240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}