{"id":2559,"date":"2011-07-26T16:21:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T23:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2011-07-26T16:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T23:21:10","slug":"aurical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/aurical\/","title":{"rendered":"AURICAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2560\" title=\"Aurical-Something-to-Say-M-Review-May2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Aurical-Something-to-Say-M-Review-May2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Aurical-Something-to-Say-M-Review-May2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Aurical-Something-to-Say-M-Review-May2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>A<\/strong><strong>URICAL<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><strong><em>Something to Say<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong>auricalmusic.com<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Rossos and Michael Gallant are classically trained musician-composers with incredibly diverse r\u00e9sum\u00e9s. She\u2019s written orchestral works and performed at Lincoln Center, while he\u2019s scored plays and jammed with Phish\u2019s Page McConnell and Herbie Hancock (full disclosure: Gallant is a contributor to <em>M Music and Musicians<\/em>). Aurical finds the duo in pop-rock mode, and their cleverness comes through right away. \u201cBrahms of Philosophy\u201d is a Blondie-style rocker about a college professor brilliant enough to warrant comparison to the titular German composer. Elsewhere they try polite funk (\u201cLeave It All Behind\u201d), coffeehouse soul (\u201cI\u2019ve Never Known\u201d) and even grunge-lite rock (\u201cJulianna\u201d). They may be deliberately playing below their considerable abilities, but they\u2019re having too good a time for anyone to accuse them of slumming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AURICAL Something to Say auricalmusic.com Rachel Rossos and Michael Gallant are classically trained musician-composers with incredibly diverse r\u00e9sum\u00e9s. She\u2019s written orchestral works and performed at Lincoln Center, while he\u2019s scored plays and jammed with Phish\u2019s Page McConnell and Herbie Hancock (full disclosure: Gallant is a contributor to M Music and Musicians). Aurical finds the duo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,2018,2020,10159,1634,2019],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2561,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions\/2561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}