{"id":140,"date":"2018-10-10T19:20:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T19:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinverheyenbe.webhosting.be\/?p=140"},"modified":"2019-01-10T19:21:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T19:21:47","slug":"today-is-monk-time-mixmonks-first-studio-album-completed-scheduled-for-release-early-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinverheyen.be\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Today is Monk time:  MiXMONK\u2019s first studio album completed; scheduled for release early 2019."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Joey Baron, Bram De Looze and Robin Verheyen took 4 days out of their busy schedules to rehearse and record the first album by their co-operative band MiXMONK. The trio came about when Verheyen was commissioned by Bozar in Brussels to do \u2018something\u2019 for Monk\u2019s birthday centennial in October 2017 and he and Bram De Looze simultaneously came up with the idea to expand their existing duo by adding Joey Baron.<\/p>\n<p>The one Bozar concert turned into a 10 day club tour by the end of which nobody wanted to stop. The band members point out that MiXMONK is by no means \u2018inclined to do so called tributes\u2019 or \u2018hommages\u2019 and \u2018definitely not into historically correct reconstruction\u2019.\u00a0 According to them they \u2018just love Monk and like to play some of his tunes our way\u2019 and \u2018have fun mixing them up with a couple of originals of our own\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The record is slated for release in February 2019, to be followed by European tours in the spring and late fall of the same year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Joey Baron, Bram De Looze and Robin Verheyen took 4 days out of their busy schedules to rehearse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinverheyen.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinverheyen.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinverheyen.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinverheyen.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinverheyen.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinverheyen.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinverheyen.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinverheyen.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinverheyen.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinverheyen.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinverheyen.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}