{"id":176,"date":"2016-05-17T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/05\/17\/music-by-ki-ki-very-enjoyable\/"},"modified":"2023-12-18T12:28:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T12:28:03","slug":"music-by-ki-ki-very-enjoyable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/music-by-ki-ki-very-enjoyable\/","title":{"rendered":"Music by Ki &#038; Ki &#8211; very enjoyable"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"266\" data-thumbnail-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/tXE-qTbYvFI\/0.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tXE-qTbYvFI?feature=player_embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">I<\/span> can&#8217;t remember who lead me to look at Ki &amp; Ki on YouTube. Sorry, whoever you were! They play some rather astounding pieces of music on the traditional shamisen, which is a fascinating instrument to any really bad bouzouki player, such as myself.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">T<\/span>hey were so interesting that I ordered a couple of CDs from their web site, and the CDs arrived today. With them was a signed photograph, and it had a personal message on the back. The only other band I&#8217;ve had anything like that happen with was the wonderful Rembetika Hipsters (http:\/\/rembetika.com\/) who are based in Canada. Anyway&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">I<\/span>&#8216;ve always liked it when bands include posters and such like with their CDs, so this one was a pleasant surprise. It&#8217;s a bit on the psychedelic side, don&#8217;t you think? The message on the back of the photograph says they would like to play in the UK some day. Musical event arrangers, please note.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-QM8F9qclFbM\/VzubE9AjnmI\/AAAAAAAAlCo\/H-IH-TEHuE4Ar35INB9P6r1TUxLMPNZqQCLcB\/s1600\/ki%2526ki.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-QM8F9qclFbM\/VzubE9AjnmI\/AAAAAAAAlCo\/H-IH-TEHuE4Ar35INB9P6r1TUxLMPNZqQCLcB\/s640\/ki%2526ki.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t remember who lead me to look at Ki &amp; Ki on YouTube. Sorry, whoever you were! They play some rather astounding pieces of music on the traditional shamisen, which is a fascinating instrument to any really bad bouzouki player, such as myself. They were so interesting that I ordered a couple of CDs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/music-by-ki-ki-very-enjoyable\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Music by Ki &#038; Ki &#8211; very enjoyable&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}