{"id":11291,"date":"2023-07-11T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11291"},"modified":"2023-07-10T14:23:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T13:23:04","slug":"new-release-philippe-petits-drinking-the-acheron-river-at-its-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11291","title":{"rendered":"New release: Philippe Petit\u2019s \u201cDrinking the Acheron River at Its Source\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/releases\/204\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cronica204-2023_1440-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11292\" width=\"520\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cronica204-2023_1440-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cronica204-2023_1440-260x260.jpg 260w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cronica204-2023_1440-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cronica204-2023_1440-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cronica204-2023_1440.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We are thrilled to present the first release by Philippe Petit in Cr\u00f3nica his brilliant \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/releases\/204\">Drinking the Acheron River at Its Source<\/a>\u201d, now available as a <a href=\"https:\/\/cronica.bandcamp.com\/album\/drinking-the-acheron-river-at-its-source\">download<\/a> or stream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a prequel to\u00a0<em>A Divine Comedy<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Philippe Petit has completed his most ambitious work to appear on Cronica early in 2024,\u00a0<em>A Divine Comedy<\/em>, taking Dante Alighieri\u2019s immense poem as a point of inspiration and developing a double album soundtrack-voyage.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drinking the Acheron River at Its Source&nbsp;was composed just after and is what one might call a prequel since its story precedes that of the previously created work and depicting Dante dreaming that he is with Virgil alive and bathing in the legendary river, accidentally drinking the poison that will engulf them and mark the beginning of the journey\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dante had a dream<br \/>Meeting Virgil<br \/>Leading to the waters of Acheron.<br \/>Thick with mire<br \/>Of fathomless flood<br \/>A whirlpool seethes and belches all its purity<br \/>Just as blue as autumn,<br \/>The desire to bathe too strong,<br \/>To lose one&#8217;s footing is easy and the cup will drink whoever is not careful\u2026<br \/>The poison shall creep in and the journey to the underworld&#8217;s entrance begin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Philippe Petit\u00a0celebrates forty years of activism in 2023! Born in Marseille, South of France, he started Djing, animating radio shows and editing zines in 1983. His current and past projects and collaborations can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/philippepetit.info\/\">philippepetit.info<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/modulisme.info\/\">modulisme.info<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled to present the first release by Philippe Petit in Cr\u00f3nica his brilliant \u201cDrinking the Acheron River at Its Source\u201d, now available as a download or stream. This is a prequel to\u00a0A Divine Comedy\u2026 Philippe Petit has completed his most ambitious work to appear on Cronica early in 2024,\u00a0A Divine Comedy, taking Dante &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11291\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New release: Philippe Petit\u2019s \u201cDrinking the Acheron River at Its Source\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[570],"class_list":["post-11291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-releases","tag-philippe-petit","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11293,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11291\/revisions\/11293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}