{"id":70863,"date":"2021-08-18T08:43:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T07:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=70863"},"modified":"2021-08-18T08:44:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T07:44:34","slug":"thanksgiving-the-debut-offering-from-jazz-spoken-word-outfit-poetica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2021\/08\/thanksgiving-the-debut-offering-from-jazz-spoken-word-outfit-poetica\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Thanksgiving&#8217;: The Debut Offering From Jazz Spoken-Word Outfit POETICA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Poetica is the new brain child from alt-folk icon Rachael Sage. A jazz spoken-word outfit, Poetica has just released their debut single, the whimsical &#8216;Thanksgiving&#8217;, which premiered last week. You can watch the video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DqjysFk0dnk\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Featuring the multiple Grammy-winning cellist David Eggar, &#8216;Thanksgiving&#8217; is a psychedelic ode to individuality in all its forms, and shows a truly different side to Rachael Sage than we&#8217;ve seen before. The video appropriately features lyrics written in a retro type font, and evokes feelings of academia, that uncontrollable urge to stay up late to finish reading an interesting article, making one too many cups of coffee and pouring your heart out in poetry on an old typewriter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Poetica has a full length album coming later in the year, and, if this is anything to go by, we&#8217;re very excited to hear it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poetica is the new brain child from alt-folk icon Rachael Sage. 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