{"id":10664,"date":"2018-11-20T11:48:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T19:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=10664"},"modified":"2019-01-15T12:07:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T20:07:17","slug":"monday-recommendation-a-day-late-atlantis-quartet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2018\/11\/monday-recommendation-a-day-late-atlantis-quartet\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation, A Day Late: Atlantis Quartet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Atlantis Quartet<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/shiftingparadigmrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/hello-human\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hello Human<\/a> (Shifting Paradigm Records)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/a3644835008_16-1-e1542743405301.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10665\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/a3644835008_16-1-e1542743405301.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a>If you visit the Shifting Paradigm Records website in search of <em>Hello Human<\/em>, you may be startled to see the legend, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Name Your Price,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d near a box with a dollar sign and an empty space waiting to be filled. In fairness, the offer has a notation that reads, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153USD ($8 or more).\u00e2\u20ac\u009d After a dozen years together, <em>more<\/em> may indeed be welcome to the members of this tightly knit quartet from Minnesota\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Twin Cities. Their intricacy and interwoven playing are rewarding throughout the album\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ten tracks. The musicians wrote the pieces in what their promotional material suggests is a cooperative process regardless of who gets composer credit for any given piece. Several hearings have persuaded me that the quartet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s approach\u00e2\u20ac\u201d relaxed, harmonically inventive, unpretentious\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmay be something many listeners are ready for. It&#8217;s unusual for <em>Rifftides<\/em> to include a video in the Monday Recommendation, but we&#8217;ll let tenor saxophonist Brandon Wozniak, guitarist Zac Harris, bassist Chris Bates and drummer Pete Hennig speak for themselves.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d0wbrjzuzas\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Four previous albums? Obviously, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to have to do more listening.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantis Quartet, Hello Human (Shifting Paradigm Records) If you visit the Shifting Paradigm Records website in search of Hello Human, you may be startled to see the legend, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Name Your Price,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d near a box with a dollar sign and an empty space waiting to be filled. In fairness, the offer has a notation that reads, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}