PRINCE - TIMELESS

• Prince: Timeless
      (2026, cd, --, npg records / sony)

NPG Records has just released "Timeless", which is an album title that raises certain expectations.

Is it a timeless album? One of the best albums ever released by Prince (or NPG Records)?
I guess not, but it does present a fine selection of songs from Prince's entire career, including a superb live version of 'How Come You Don't Call Me Anymore', recorded March 2016, only weeks before his passing.

FRANK ZAPPA'S FORMER HOLLYWOOD HILLS HOME

-- info: Zjakki Willems

FRANK ZAPPA - - - VINTAGE VINYL

 

Vintage vinyl !

* Frank Zappa: Hot Rats At The Olympic
(t.m.o.q. - green vinyl)

* Various Artists: Schischgebab (Wino Man)
((bm1020)

PANZERBALLETT CROWDFUNDING

a message from Panzerballett 

Dear qB fans,

our crowdfunding campaign for the Panzerballett feat. Virgil Donati live album has now been running for three weeks, and we’ve just passed the 20% mark!

A huge thank you to everyone who has supported us so far. ❤️

In less than four weeks, we’ll be heading out on tour with Virgil, and we want to professionally record these shows and turn them into an official Panzerballett live album.

But we still need your help to make it happen, and our crowdfunding campaign has only 13 days left.

Besides the digital live album and the CD, there are several rewards that are only available through this campaign. You can become part of the music yourself by joining the Ode to Joy Chaos Choir, introduce a Panzerballett song live in front of the audience as an Official Song Announcer, or get your hands on one of the strictly limited Alien Hip Hop Score Editions.

And for musicians and composers, the Private Composer’s Workshop gives you the opportunity to spend two hours with me working exclusively on your own music.

If you’ve been thinking about supporting the project, now would be a great time to join us. And if none of the rewards are for you, simply sharing the campaign with others helps us enormously as well.

https://www.startnext.com/en/panzerballett-live-album

NEEDLEPOINT - OUTSIDE THE SCREEN

• Needlepoint: Outside The Screen
      (2012, cd, --, bjk music)

If you have a weak spot for the warm, sun-drenched whimsy of late-60s Canterbury prog or the looser, exploratory boundaries of psychedelic jazz fusion, then Norway’s Needlepoint needs to be on your radar immediately.

It has been a couple of years since I've listened to Needlepoint, and it was lovely to rediscover them.

Released on the BJK Music label, this record feels less like a modern product and more like a long-lost tape found tucked away in a 1971 recording studio cupboard. It strikes a perfect balance between highly structured, melodic pieces and fluid, free-flowing instrumental jams.

-- info: Philippe Lamoot

GROS COEUR - GROS DISQUE

• Gros Coeur: Gros Disque
      (2023, cd, Belgium, jauneorange records)
      (2023, lp, Belgium, jauneorange records)

Gros Coeur is a psychedelic rock band from Belgium.
Shifting song structures, exotic flavours, high energy alternating with almost pop songs,...

The band was founded by Adrien Chapelle (former bass player for the notorious Belgian punk outfit Cocaine Piss) and three musicians from diverse musical backgrounds.

• Adrien Chapelle – Frontman, Producer
• Jimmy Geers – Guitar
• Julien Trousson – Bass
• Alexandre De Bueger – Drums

"Gros Disque" was the band's first album, released in 2023.
In the meantime, they have added another album to their discography: "Vague Célérate", released in 2025.

This is nice !

Out on Bandcamp, but also on LP and on CD.

Recommended listening !

-- info: Philippe Lamoot

THE LOVE SUBSTITUTES

Previously only available on CD, Jezus Factory Records will be re-issuing the two albums by The Love Substitutes on vinyl.

Featuring Rudy Trouvé, Craig Ward, Mauro Pawlowski and Bert Lenaerts, four musicians from one of the richest and most eccentric corners of the Belgian underground, bringing together decades of experience across dEUS, Kiss My Jazz, Evil Superstars, Dead Man Ray, Gore Slut, iH8 Camera, A Clean Kitchen Is A Happy Kitchen and a bewildering network of solo projects, collaborations and experimental groups.

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GOOSE - 2026/08/28 RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATER, MORRISON, CO

As one might have noticed, I've been listening to the concert recordings that Goose is putting on Bandcamp.
Not necessarily to the entire concert, but I like to listen to the first couple of songs and then pick out the special tracks.
For this Red Rocks show, I can recommend the stretched jam versions of 'Burn The Witch' (Radiohead) and 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Kylie Minogue).

TERRY BOZZIO

Flashback to April 8th 2001, when Dutch TV show 'Vrije Geluiden' featured Terry Bozzio !!

ZILBATRAR - OUTTAKES

• Zilbatrar: Outtakes
      (2021, download / streaming, --, bandcamp)

Montreal, Québec-based Zilbatrar released a set of demos through Bandcamp in 2021. Track 8 was an instrumental version of FZ’s ‘Wowie Zowie’.