Thursday, April 25, 2024

STEPHANE GALLAND & THE RHYTHM HUNTERS - - - NEW ALBUM OUT

Stéphane Galland & The Rhythm Hunters' album is out.
On CD and on LP.
On the Challenge Records label.


A teaser:


KRONOS QUARTET TO RELEASE A SUN RA TRIBUTE ALBUM

The Red Hot Org record label is releasing "Outer Spaceways Incorporated : Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra"

The fourth (?) album in a series that pays tribute to Sun Ra.

2 LP release & digital download


SEAORM - NEKYIA


“If there is an album that could be close to the fusion of the space-prog legends Vespero and the cult avant-rock group October Equus, it is this new album by Seaorm called Nekyia. The pair of composer brothers Ángel Ontalva and Víctor Rodríguez on guitar and keyboards respectively, and the prodigious rhythm section of Vespero, the also brothers Arkady and Ivan Fedotov, have created a cosmic work with this album, they have descended to the underworld and emerged epically through a thousand alchemical spells. It is a formidable work for those eager to explore new musical paths.”


ERIKA STUCKY

Jazz singer Erika Stucky's "Stucky Live" album got released on CD in 2011.
It included her version of FZ's 'I'm The Slime'.

The album has also been made available through Bandcamp.

-- info: Jan van Kemenade


JOHN SURMAN, JACK DEJOHNETTE & LONDON BRASS - FREE AND EQUAL

  • john surman, jack dejohnette & london brass: free & equal
        (2003, cd, --, ecm)
Music for brass choir and improvising reeds and drums. Classical ensemble London Brass joins the Surman/DeJohnette duo in a live recording from London’s South Bank.

And this is a pretty amazing album.
9 tracks. 
I love the brass sounds and how it delivers the perfect setting (and contrast) for John Surman and Jack DeJohnette.
Recorded in 2002 and released in 2003.

Beautiful.

Here's a sample :


STEPHANE GALLAND IN CONCERT

Next Thursday, Stéphane Galland will perform with two of his projects at the BOZAR in Brussels.

Stéphane Galland and The Rhythm Hunters will open the evening, followed by a concert by The Gallands.

This should be fun !!

https://www.bozar.be/nl/kalender/stephane-galland-carte-blanche-rhythm-hunters-gallands

20:00 - 21:00 h
Stéphane Galland & The Rhythm Hunters

  • Shoko Igarashi - tenor sax
  • Sylvain Debaisieux: alto sax
  • Pierre-Antoine Savoyat: trumpet
  • Wajdi Riahi: piano
  • Louise van den Heuvel: electric bass
  • Stéphane Galland: drums


21:30 - 22:30 h
The Gallands

  • Stéphane Galland: drums
  • Elvin Galland: keyboards
  • Louise van den Heuvel: electric bass


Wednesday, April 24, 2024

NEW SOFT MACHINE ALBUM AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER

The Cuneiform record label is making the new Soft Machine album available for pre-order.

"H​ø​vikodden 1971" will be released both as a 4 CD and as a 4 LP set, and as a digital download.
As the album title explains, it will present a 1971 concert recording.

While the two sets from the second night (February 28, 1971) have been released before, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT THE ENTIRE TWO-NIGHT STAND HAS BEEN RELEASED. So half of this is previously completely unreleased.

This is a excellent, stereo recording of the band performing in a relatively small hall; the balances between the instruments are not perfectly balanced, but there is no other recording by Soft Machine that I know of that sounds as much like the band are performing *right* in front of you!

Additionally, we were able to improve in a modest but definitely noticeable way the not-perfect balance between the instruments on this edition.


EIDON - EXPERIMENT0

Eidon.
'Experiment0'

 

VARIOUS ARTISTS - REIMAGINING THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING

'Moonchild' with Chester Thompson had already been released as a teaser but since last week, the entire album is available !

"Reimagining The Court Of The Crimson King"

Out on LP, CD and as a digital download.
  1. 21st Century Schizoid Man
     feat. Todd Rundgren, Arthur Brown, Mel Collins, Chris Poland & Ian Paice
  2. I Talk To The Wind
     feat. Mel Collins, Django Jakszyk & Jakko M Jakszyk
  3. Epitaph
     feat. Alan Davey, Paul Rudolph, Nik Turner, Adam Hamilton & Danny Faulkner
  4. Moonchild
     feat. Joe Lynn Turner, Marty Friedman, Jah Wobble & Chester Thompson
  5. The Court Of The Crimson King
     feat. James LaBrie, Carmine Appice & Steve Hillage
  6. 21st Century Schizoid Man (Alternate Version)
     feat. Arthur Brown, Brian Auger, Chris Poland & Ian Paice
  7. 21st Century Schizoid Man (Instrumental)
     feat. Mel Collins, Chris Poland & Ian Paice

MARCUS MILLER & THE METROPOLE ORKEST

From 2013