{"id":52734,"date":"2019-08-09T11:26:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T10:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=52734"},"modified":"2019-08-09T11:26:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T10:26:04","slug":"kazyak-contravertical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/08\/kazyak-contravertical\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazyak &#8211; &#8216;Contravertical&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8216;Contravertical&#8217; is the lead track from Kazyak&#8217;s new album, &#8216;Odyssey&#8217;, and follows on from their previous release, <a href=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/06\/kazyak-drops-a-little-ear-candy-with-camouflage-ahead-of-new-album-odyssey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Camouflage&#8217;<\/a>, which they released back in June. &#8216;Odyssey&#8217; comes out on 16 August.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Random Ad stuff --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"3107208401\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2076862002005673\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Contravertical&#8217; feels as though it&#8217;s been transmitted from space, and that&#8217;s even without the mission control style conversation at the start. Ethereal vocals, reminding us a lot of Pink Floyd, Supertramp, Fleetwood Mac, and other artists of that era. There&#8217;s a whole Carl Sagan&#8217;s &#8220;Cosmos&#8221; vibe to the track; like it&#8217;s out of place and time &#8211; it&#8217;s science fiction and yet not of this day and age. It&#8217;s psychedelia crossed with prog rock, and feels spontaneous while also feeling wholeheartedly planned. The band have taken inspiration for their album from Joseph Campbell&#8217;s 1988 book and tv series, &#8216;The Power Of Myth&#8217;, which quotes as its premise, &#8220;myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life&#8221;. Kazyak describe their music as essentially folk, but, with &#8216;Odyssey&#8217; their sound is most definitely 60s\/70s rock influenced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Contravertical&#8217; is an excellent play on words &#8211; it sounds like a malapropism of the word &#8220;controversial&#8221;, while at the same time causing you to ponder what &#8220;contravertical&#8221; could actually mean. Contra means opposite &#8211; so the opposite of vertical is horizontal. But the space imagery would suggest a vertical trajectory&#8230;are they suggesting the answers are here on earth? Or they lay within? Certainly the opening lines, which focus on centrist thought, might suggest such a theory. Mind blown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Find Kazyak online on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kazyakmusic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaz_yak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kazyaking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/kazyak.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official website<\/a>.\u00a0&#8216;Odyssey&#8217; is out August 16.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Contravertical by Kazyak\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F620893623&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=960&#038;maxwidth=640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Contravertical&#8217; is the lead track from Kazyak&#8217;s new album, &#8216;Odyssey&#8217;, and follows on from their previous release, &#8216;Camouflage&#8217;, which they released back in June. &#8216;Odyssey&#8217; comes out on 16 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":52741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,9,21453,21445,21446],"tags":[22434,22433,6534,891,21504,17921,11720,144,77,370,21502,2742,115,13265,21506],"class_list":["post-52734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-new-singles","category-reviews","category-single-reviews","tag-carl-sagan","tag-contravertical","tag-cosmos","tag-fleetwood-mac","tag-joseph-campbell","tag-kazyak","tag-lisa-hafey","tag-new-album","tag-new-release","tag-new-single","tag-odyssey","tag-pink-floyd","tag-prog-rock","tag-supertramp","tag-the-power-of-myth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-dIy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50251,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/06\/kazyak-drops-a-little-ear-candy-with-camouflage-ahead-of-new-album-odyssey\/","url_meta":{"origin":52734,"position":0},"title":"Kazyak Drops A Little Ear Candy With &#8216;Camouflage&#8217; Ahead Of New Album &#8216;Odyssey&#8217;","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"05\/06\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Languidly strolling across the aural sphere, 'Camouflage', from Kazyak, is a psychedelically sonic adventure, and a worthy dive into the pool which is their forthcoming album, 'Odyssey'.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Kazyak.png?fit=715%2C714&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Kazyak.png?fit=715%2C714&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Kazyak.png?fit=715%2C714&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Kazyak.png?fit=715%2C714&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":18183,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/02\/80s-sound-with-classic-twist-some-velvet-morning\/","url_meta":{"origin":52734,"position":1},"title":"80s Sound with a Classic Twist from Some Velvet Morning","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"17\/02\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"North London band Some Velvet Morning are releasing a single a month for 2016. 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