{"id":12578,"date":"2015-01-17T18:41:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T23:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bostonsurvivalguide.net\/wordpress\/?p=12578"},"modified":"2015-01-18T18:45:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T23:45:15","slug":"introducing-ian-coss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bostonsurvivalguide.net\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/introducing-ian-coss\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing… Ian Coss"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you can’t get away right now for a trip to East Asia, here’s the next best thing. Boston-based musician Ian Coss<\/a><\/strong> made that journey in 2011. He lived in Indonesia and Japan for a few years, creating a sort of travelogue through the eyes of a stranger in a strange land, as his own personal fantasies, concerns and anxieties wove their way through his daily encounters. He speaks of the lives of ordinary people and everyday experiences, but through a foreigner’s perspective, one who is grappling with remembrances of home and relationships he left behind. This curious narrative would become his starting point for An Act of Imagination<\/a><\/strong>, just released on his own Fashion People Records<\/a><\/strong>. The music has a bright pop sound with bits of spritely Asian pop flavor and a little Americana and even R&B mixed in, quite fitting for an American on a far Eastern adventure. The crowning jewel, in my opinion, is the song and accompanying video for “Ten Days,” a delightfully quirky observation of the final days of his physical and emotional journey.<\/p>\n