{"id":2996,"date":"2014-11-25T16:31:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T16:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thisistruluv.com\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2023-04-04T10:44:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T09:44:45","slug":"jay-stansfield-soul-splitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thisistruluv.com\/jay-stansfield-soul-splitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Stansfield &#8211; Soul Splitter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This one has left me flat out dumbfounded. <strong>Jay Stansfield<\/strong> has always known his way around a clever tune, as his plentiful back catalogue will attest. But never anything quite like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Showing scant regard for standard pop arrangement, <strong>Soul Splitter <\/strong>is a heady blend of ethereal sonics and impassioned vocal performance; in combination with it&#8217;s close-up one-shot video it manages to juxtapose extreme intimacy with disorientating glacial beauty. Words are delivered stream-of-consciousness style, there&#8217;s an intense struggle between dark and light forces happening here &#8211; I&#8217;ll leave it to you to decide which one wins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a taster for the January 2015-due album <strong>Birth &amp; Death<\/strong>, it&#8217;s an intriguing entr\u00e9e, and such an unexpected departure from his previous work that one can only wildly speculate as to where else this trip might take us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed 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\" title=\"Soul Splitter\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/111830920?h=22ceba1ce1&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jaystansfieldmusichttp:\/\/jaystansfield.co.uk\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jaystansfieldmusic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jaystansfieldmusichttp:\/\/jaystansfield.co.uk\/\">http:\/\/jaystansfield.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike Phillips<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one has left me flat out dumbfounded. Jay Stansfield has always known his way around a clever tune, as his plentiful back catalogue will attest. But never anything quite like this. Showing scant regard for standard pop arrangement, Soul Splitter is a heady blend of ethereal sonics and impassioned vocal performance; in combination with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,14],"tags":[636],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thisistruluv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/d3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thisistruluv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thisistruluv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thisistruluv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thisistruluv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thisistruluv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thisistruluv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4382,"href":"https:\/\/www.thisistruluv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions\/4382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thisistruluv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thisistruluv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thisistruluv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thisistruluv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}