{"id":47,"date":"2010-12-10T23:31:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T23:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peterchilvers.com\/?p=47"},"modified":"2011-08-06T10:43:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T10:43:57","slug":"and-back-from-estonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterchilvers.com\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;and back from Estonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trip to Estonia was as enjoyable as it was cold (a bone-brittling -12 degrees at one point.) Three gigs in three days, with Tim Bowness and two musicians I&#8217;d never met&#8230; I&#8217;d love to say how incredibly challenging it was to put together, but in truth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/umaestonia\">Aleksei and Robert<\/a> are such skilled musicians that it seemed effortless. We had one day of rehearsal, and it felt like we&#8217;d been playing together for years.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_49\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterchilvers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/bowness_chilvers_uma.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49\" src=\"http:\/\/www.peterchilvers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/bowness_chilvers_uma.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Bowness Chilvers Uma\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.peterchilvers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/bowness_chilvers_uma.jpg 580w, http:\/\/www.peterchilvers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/bowness_chilvers_uma-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-49\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Bowness, Aleksei Saks, Peter Chilvers, Robert J\u00c3\u00bcrjendal<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The gigs were in beautiful locations &#8211; a country home surrounded by snowy pines, a chilly church in Tartu, and the Niguliste Church in Tallinn, my favourite of the three. With a natural reverb time of eleven seconds, it takes only a few notes to fill the room, and as a side bonus, the 200 strong audience sounded like 2000.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s some mobile &#8216;phone footage of one of the songs below. That gig was also filmed at higher quality, so hopefully we&#8217;ll have more at a later date.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5oYhuv31qpQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5oYhuv31qpQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, I thought I&#8217;d made up the word &#8220;brittling&#8221;, but it turns out it already existed. Disappointing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trip to Estonia was as enjoyable as it was cold (a bone-brittling -12 degrees at one point.) Three gigs in three days, with Tim Bowness and two musicians I&#8217;d never met&#8230; I&#8217;d love to say how incredibly challenging it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterchilvers.com\/?p=47\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,11,17],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","tag-slow-electric","tag-tim-bowness","tag-uma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterchilvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterchilvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterchilvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterchilvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterchilvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterchilvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterchilvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterchilvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterchilvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}