{"id":485798,"date":"2019-05-13T13:08:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T19:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=834872"},"modified":"2019-05-13T13:08:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T19:08:30","slug":"see-esperanza-spalding-pay-ode-to-blood-in-lest-we-forget-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/see-esperanza-spalding-pay-ode-to-blood-in-lest-we-forget-video\/","title":{"rendered":"See Esperanza Spalding Pay Ode to Blood in \u2018Lest We Forget\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/esmeralda-spalding.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/esperanza-spalding\/\" id=\"auto-tag_esperanza-spalding\" data-tag=\"esperanza-spalding\">Esperanza Spalding<\/a> spins a dizzy red yarn in a forest in the video for the singer\u2019s new song \u201cLest We Forget,\u201d her tribute to the blood that courses through our veins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLest We Forget\u201d is one of four new body-inspired tracks Spalding has added to her acclaimed 2018 concept album <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/esperanza-spalding-12-little-spells-739288\/\">12 Little Spells<\/a><\/em>, which featured 12 songs each inspired by a different body part.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Spalding <a href=\"http:\/\/esperanzaspalding.limitedrun.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">re-released<\/a> <em>12 Little Spells<\/em> with songs dedicated to \u201cblood, hair, joints and shoulders,\u201d with the reissue available in a variety of formats and bundles.<\/p>\n<p>Spalding wrote of blood and the song in the \u201cLest We Forget\u201d YouTube caption, \u201cSensation of gentle propulsion through one\u2019s own inner\/outer space, guided and tethered by infinite love For trusting that the flow of the personal circulation system is constant in providing the body (individual, family, community, partnership, profession, field, culture, nation, species, planet, etc.) with oxygenation, mineral and nutrient nourishment, and anatomy-based mechanisms for functional healing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>12 Little Spells<\/em> earned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/esperanza-spalding-12-little-spells-739288\/\">a four-star <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> review<\/a> in October; \u201cHer new LP favors a slightly dreamier aesthetic (see the gorgeous, overture-like opener \u201c12 Little Spells,\u201d dedicated to the thoracic spine). But there\u2019s still music here that will make your head spin with its exquisite intergenre oddity,\u201d the review stated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/esperanza-spalding-lest-we-forget-blood-video-834872\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esperanza Spalding spins a dizzy red yarn in a forest in the video for the singer\u2019s new song \u201cLest We Forget,\u201d her tribute to the blood that courses through our veins. \u201cLest We Forget\u201d is one of four new body-inspired tracks Spalding has added to her acclaimed 2018 concept album 12 Little Spells, which featured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-485798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 05:32:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}