{"id":288,"date":"2009-01-20T00:20:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T07:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downthelinezine.com\/archives\/?p=288"},"modified":"2011-02-09T13:42:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T19:42:02","slug":"umbra-by-the-sound-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/umbra-by-the-sound-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Umbra by The Sound Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-333\" src=\"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2009\/01\/sound-gallery.jpg\" alt=\"sound-gallery\" width=\"170\" height=\"170\" \/>THE SOUND GALLERY<br \/> UMBRA<\/strong><br \/> 2008 Independent<br \/> Purchase: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/thesoundgallery\" target=\"_blank\">MySpace<\/a><br \/> Review by: Steve Ruff<\/p>\n<p>The Sound Gallery is unique. This is Herb Grimaud Jr.\u2019s band, and he is the sole member. I remembered Herb from when he played with The Violet Burning several years ago. I didn\u2018t know what to expect from the music, but the stuff I heard on MySpace was so different from anything else that is out there. I bought all three albums and chose to review this one because it was the latest. All three are good, but <em>Umbra <\/em>might be my favorite. Umbra means \u201ca region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light\u201d. The music reflects this in that it is sonically dark, sparse and sounds like something that you would hear recorded from the depths of underwater, or maybe even outer space. I say that it\u2019s dark, but it is also quiet, ethereal, lush and full sounding. It is instrumental and quite honestly it\u2019s also very hard to describe. According to Herb\u2019s MySpace page he says, \u201cI like turning knobs and pushing buttons to see what kind of sounds they will make.\u201d He describes his band as \u201cambient, experimental, noisy and sometimes beautifully out of tune.\u201d Whatever you call it, however you classify it, pick it up and listen to it. It really is that good. You could expect something this unique from someone whose influences include Martin Luther, John Calvin and Tom Savini.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE SOUND GALLERY UMBRA 2008 Independent Purchase: MySpace Review by: Steve Ruff The Sound Gallery is unique. This is Herb Grimaud Jr.\u2019s band, and he is the sole member. I remembered Herb from when he played with The Violet Burning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/umbra-by-the-sound-gallery\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,24],"tags":[98,87],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-january-2009","category-music-review","tag-independent","tag-the-sound-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":762,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}