{"id":806614,"date":"2020-04-21T08:35:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T14:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=987451"},"modified":"2020-04-21T08:35:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T14:35:05","slug":"belle-and-sebastian-turn-covid-19-fears-into-gorgeous-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/belle-and-sebastian-turn-covid-19-fears-into-gorgeous-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Belle and Sebastian Turn COVID-19 Fears Into Gorgeous Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Protecting-The-Hive-Image.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The other week, Stuart Murdoch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/belle-and-sebastian\/\" id=\"auto-tag_belle-and-sebastian\" data-tag=\"belle-and-sebastian\">Belle and Sebastian<\/a> put out a call on Twitter for a collaborative project: \u201cOK, I\u2019ve got an idea.\u2026 How about we make a tune together using remote technology? Send me a few sentences or a paragraph, I\u2019ll try to funnel those words into a song, then I\u2019ll record an acoustic version of it and bounce it back to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still in bed, I sent him a brief paragraph about how I\u2019m handling self-isolation (the gist of which is that I\u2019m lucky) and a photo of the sunrise my anxiety forced me to notice that morning. A few weeks later, and Belle and Sebastian are out with a two-part collaborative project called <em>Protecting the Hive<\/em>. The first part, out Tuesday, is a video featuring Murdoch and Alessandra Lupo narrating fan quotes over gentle, spacey music \u2014 the imagery a deserted, sunny Glasgow.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.222222222222\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1. Ok, I\u2019ve got an idea. I come up with lots of tunes but the band aren\u2019t around just now, and I rely on them to turn them into pop. How about we make a tune together using remote technology? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lzbvlnTZ49\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/lzbvlnTZ49<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 stuart murdoch (@nee_massey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nee_massey\/status\/1243814371412848641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">March 28, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My quotes are not included in this first video, but Murdoch and Co. are promising a second edition come Friday \u2014 this time, audio-only. Belle and Sebastian encourage fans to take said audio files and make something new out of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have GarageBand, Zoom, whatever. A collaboration,\u201d Murdoch said. \u201cSomeone might be good with tech. Someone might want to sing it. Can you put a rhythm to it? Someone add some organ, some flute! At this point it\u2019s out of my hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murdoch also started leading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/belleandsebastian\/videos\/812917062450183\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">meditation sessions<\/a> to help fans stay Zen during the COVID-19 pandemic. The band dropped its most recent album, <em>Days of the Bagnold Summer<\/em>, in 2019.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/belle-and-sebastian-protect-the-hive-987451\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other week, Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian put out a call on Twitter for a collaborative project: \u201cOK, I\u2019ve got an idea.\u2026 How about we make a tune together using remote technology? Send me a few sentences or a paragraph, I\u2019ll try to funnel those words into a song, then I\u2019ll record an [&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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 11:59:20","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}