STEVE VAI

September should see a (yet another) re-issue of Alcatrazz' "Power Live" video recording.
Released in 1985 on VHS, this 1984 Japan concert, featuring Steve Vai, has been spotted on DVD (both as a bootleg and as a legal release).
It has also been combined with a compilation album...

And now it will be re-released as a DVD/2CD or a Blu-Ray/2CD set, billed as "Live In Japan 1984 - The Complete Recording".

BULLIPHANT

Bulliphant is

• Bart Maris (BE) : trumpet and piccolo trumpet
• Ruben Verbruggen (BE) : alto and baritone saxophone
• Thijs Troch (BE) : synth and electronics
• Gonçalo Almeida (PT) : double bass
• Friso van Wijck (NL) : drums and percussion

The quintet has just released their first album. Recorded in concert at 'De Singer' in Rijkevorsel, BE.



-- info: Danny Mathys

JUNIOR JR. - OBLIGATORY DEMO

• junior jr.: obligatory demo
      (2018, cd, usa, private release) 

Junior Jr. recorded Carl King's 'Guns A' Blazin'! ' for their "Obligatory Demo" album, a 6-track mini album.

https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/juniorjr2

CARL KING - GUNS A' BLAZIN'!

• carl king: guns a' blazin'!
      (2018, cd, usa, ninth circle studios)

Data for the latest Carl King release  have been added to the United Mutations Archives.
This CD release has two versions of the 'Guns A' Blazin'!' suite.
The first one is the one you get to hear at Bandcamp (Carl King sequencer), the second one is by Junior Jr., a four-piece rock band from North Carolina.

'Guns A' Blazin'!' can also be found on Junior Jr. first album : "Obligatory Demo".

STIMULI

Oakland Power Trio STIMULI to Release Explosive Debut Album THEY ARE WE

Oakland, CA – Bay Area rock band STIMULI create thoughtful and heavy rock music about the human condition, delivered through Jimmy Tomahawk's melodic and edgy vocals and spacious and heavy guitar riffing, Tai Hake's solid and snarling bass tones, and Cole Andrew's intricate and powerful drumming. STIMULI will release their first official full-length album titled THEY ARE WE in stores and online worldwide on August 17, 2018. The album is a winding 11-track explosion of the trio's dense, ambitious, and fiercely original sound.

SUN RA FOR VINYL FREAKS

Both "Sleeping Beauty" and "On Jupiter" have recently been re-released on vinyl on the Strut Records label.
Originally released on vinyl by Sun Ra on his Saturn label in the late seventies, and re-issued on vinyl and on CD (and as digital download) by Art Yard a couple of years ago, and now again re-released on vinyl by Strut...

https://sunrastrut.bandcamp.com/

-- additional info: Danny Mathys

MULATE ASTATKE AND THE HELIOCENTRICS

The Strut record label has added the excellent "Inspiration Information 3" by Mulate Astatke and The Heliocentrics to their Bandcamp site.

SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM - GRAND OPENING AND CLOSING!

• sleepytime gorilla museum: grand opening and closing
      (2001, cd, usa, seeland)

Experimental avant-garde rock band Sleepytime Gorilla Museum released their first album in 2001. My copy, however, is a re-issue from 2006 with three bonus tracks.

"Grand Opening And Closing" is a pleasant introduction. A very pleasant one.

FRANK ZAPPA'S 'N-LITE'

From FZ's "Civilization Phaze III"

NEW MARBIN COMPILATION ALBUM

March 2018, Marbin released "More Is More", a fine compilation album and the perfect introduction to the music.

Earlier this week, Marbin released a sequel : "More Is More, Vol.2".
Digital download, and vinyl release.