{"id":20534,"date":"2023-03-11T11:46:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T16:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=20534"},"modified":"2023-03-11T11:46:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T16:46:53","slug":"happy-saraya-saturday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=20534","title":{"rendered":"HAPPY SARAYA SATURDAY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every since my 2021 interview with former\u00a0 <strong>Saraya<\/strong> vocalist\/songwriter <strong>Sandi Saraya<\/strong>, I was floored by the responses I got from all over the world.\u00a0 From Los Angeles to Peru and all places in between, my interview with Sandi Saraya proved to be my most successful interview that I&#8217;ve done to date.\u00a0 Hailing from New Jersey, Saraya was a powerhouse hard rock band that, in their short lived stay, would release two albums in the late &#8217;80s\/early &#8217;90s that would make a huge impact on hard rock fans all over the world earning them a diehard cult following that is going strong over 30 years later.<\/p>\n<p>Some readers contacted me to tell me that they enjoyed my &#8220;Saraya Saturday&#8221; posts last year.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t do much with it but this year, Saraya Saturday is back!<\/p>\n<p>This time around we have the song &#8220;Look the Other Way&#8221; from a collection of unreleased Saraya demos.\u00a0 Not a whole lot is known or has been said about these demos other than they were all recorded sometime between 1982 and 1989.\u00a0 A lot of demos were recorded before the recording of Saraya&#8217;s 1989 self-titled debut and while I&#8217;m not sure how or when these demos began to surface, I&#8217;m so glad they did.\u00a0 This is a great song that would&#8217;ve not only sounded great on the debut album but I could&#8217;ve even heard this one situated nicely on the never recorded third album.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Saraya - Look The Other Way (DEMO)\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YYd8-9zkDE8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every since my 2021 interview with former\u00a0 Saraya vocalist\/songwriter Sandi Saraya, I was floored by the responses I got from all over the world.\u00a0 From Los Angeles to Peru and all places in between, my interview with Sandi Saraya proved to be my most successful interview that I&#8217;ve done to date.\u00a0 Hailing from New Jersey, Saraya was a powerhouse hard rock band that, in their short lived stay, would release two albums in the late &#8217;80s\/early &#8217;90s that would make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":19440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[276,277],"tags":[2381,2424],"class_list":["post-20534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-editorial","category-music-news","tag-saraya","tag-saraya-saturday"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Image1-17.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20535,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20534\/revisions\/20535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}