{"id":11380,"date":"2023-06-25T14:06:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T12:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steppas.com\/steprec\/product\/mirror\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T04:39:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T03:39:08","slug":"mirror","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.steppas.com\/steprec\/product\/mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"Aketi Ray Meets A&amp;O &#8211; Mirror \/ Reflect &amp; Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HEAVYWEIGHT 180g VINYL!<\/p>\n<div class=\"iframe-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Aketi Ray - Mirror \/ Reflect &amp; Rise [Full Release]\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g33S_SGvXy0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"iframe-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Aketi Ray Meets Alpha &amp; Omega [Steppas Records]\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rNaUqGmbXLQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>A truly unique and inspired collaboration from Alpha Steppa&#8217;s Steppas Records, beautifully mastered and pressed to heavyweight 180g vinyl. Aketi Ray are an all-acoustic dub-jazz group from London; double bass, drums, upright piano, horns and percussion, playing original compositions grounded in the instrumental music forms of post-independence Jamaica, also drawing from Ethiopian and US jazz, West African percussion traditions, and UK Steppas. London to Kingston, to New York, to Addis Ababa, to Dakar.<\/p>\n<p>This first release, comes ahead of their debut album &#8216;From Ever Since&#8217;, forthcoming on F-Ire Records in early 2017. The tracks featured here are deeply influenced by the music of Alpha &amp; Omega. Mirror is a piece directly influenced by the classic Alpha &amp; Omega track &#8216;Show Me A Purpose&#8217;; a piece which explores the difficulty of coming to know oneself. Completing the circle of inspiration, Mirror is released here alongside a deep &amp; spiritual remix from UK-dub pioneers Alpha &amp; Omega. Aketi Ray\u2019s Mikus says \u201cAlpha &amp; Omega have been a foundational influence on our sound, so it is both privilege and honour to share our debut pressing with them.\u201d The second track &#8216;Reflect &amp; Rise&#8217; continues in the same key as Mirror, but moves on from a reflective mood into one that\u2019s focussed and resolute, as encapsulated by the rallying horn arrangements of Kevin Robinson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HEAVYWEIGHT 180g VINYL! A truly unique and inspired collaboration from Alpha Steppa&#8217;s Steppas Records, beautifully mastered and pressed to heavyweight 180g vinyl. Aketi Ray are an all-acoustic dub-jazz group from London; double bass, drums, upright piano, horns and percussion, playing original compositions grounded in the instrumental music forms of post-independence Jamaica, also drawing from Ethiopian and US jazz, West African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11381,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[498,482,469,259],"product_tag":[468,314],"class_list":{"0":"post-11380","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-12inch","7":"product_cat-vinyl","8":"product_cat-as1516","9":"product_cat-steppasrecords","10":"product_tag-aketi-ray","11":"product_tag-alpha-and-omega","12":"product_shipping_class-large","13":"pa_format-vinyl","14":"pa_format-12inch","15":"pa_label-steppas","17":"first","18":"outofstock","19":"featured","20":"downloadable","21":"taxable","22":"shipping-taxable","23":"purchasable","24":"product-type-simple"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steppas.com\/steprec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/11380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steppas.com\/steprec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steppas.com\/steprec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppas.com\/steprec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steppas.com\/steprec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppas.com\/steprec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=11380"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppas.com\/steprec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=11380"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppas.com\/steprec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=11380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}