{"id":1185,"date":"2023-10-17T11:25:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T10:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adamclitheroe.co.uk\/main\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2024-04-30T11:40:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T10:40:57","slug":"the-jonny-halifax-invocation-lake-of-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.adamclitheroe.co.uk\/main\/the-jonny-halifax-invocation-lake-of-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jonny Halifax Invocation \u2013 Lake of Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/681042678?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Video for the first single release from the album <b>A\u00e7id Bl\u00fc\u00fcs R\u00e4\u00e4gs: Volume 1<\/b> by The Jonny Halifax Invocation, released April 2022 on God Unknown Records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cInspired by Henry Flynt\u2019s avant bluegrass experiments fusing country-blues with eastern acoustic musical stylings, Spacemen 3\u2019s contemporary sitar music, and the monolithic drone doom immersion of Sunn 0))), The Jonny Halifax Invocation builds hypnotic instrumental soundscapes using lap steel and homemade slide guitars, harmonica and alto sax, underpinned by layers of acoustic and electronic drone instruments and fed through an arsenal of pedalboard electronics that would make Dave Gilmour weep. The blues are transmogrified, unhinged, reduced and re-imagined as intoxicating, trance-inducing, feedback-drenched noise paintings. \u2018A\u00e7id Bl\u00fc\u00fcs R\u00e4\u00e4gs: Volume 1\u2019 plays like a psychedelic western movie soundtrack\u2026 frenzied electric lap steel guitar suites play to melting cowboy minds. Flaming tumbleweeds blow in slow motion across wide open concrete vistas. Jodorowsky\u2019s El Topo meets Ballard\u2019s High Rise in an apocalyptic knife edge disintegrating urban landscape. Shut your eyes and conjure the best nightmares you\u2019ve never had\u2026\u201d \u2013 Shindig! Magazine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Directed and filmed with vintage lenses on the Isle of Sheppey by Adam Clitheroe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director&#8217;s cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video for the first single release from the album A\u00e7id Bl\u00fc\u00fcs R\u00e4\u00e4gs: Volume 1 by The Jonny Halifax Invocation, released April 2022 on God Unknown Records. \u201cInspired by Henry Flynt\u2019s avant bluegrass experiments fusing country-blues with eastern acoustic musical stylings, Spacemen 3\u2019s contemporary sitar music, and the monolithic drone doom immersion of Sunn 0))), The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,20,22,4,18,32,14],"tags":[205,40,203,204],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dslr","category-landscape","category-macro","category-music","category-music-video","category-ruins","category-video","tag-bass-harmonica","tag-honkeyfinger","tag-sheppey","tag-slide-guitar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adamclitheroe.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adamclitheroe.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adamclitheroe.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamclitheroe.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamclitheroe.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamclitheroe.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1250,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamclitheroe.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions\/1250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamclitheroe.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adamclitheroe.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamclitheroe.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamclitheroe.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}