THE DARKENING SCALE

The Klanggalerie record label just released "The Empty Mirror" by The Darkening Scale, David Janssen's project.

David Janssen, best known for his work as Ted The Loaf in Renaldo & The Loaf. 

Digital download / streaming, and CD release.

SELAH SUE - PERSONA

• Selah Sue: Persona
      (2022, 2cd, Europe, because music)

With the upcoming collaboration of Selah Sue and The Gallands (Stéphane & Elvin Galland), I thought it would only be appropriate to familiarize myself a bit with Selah Sue's music.
The perfect reason to buy a couple of her albums.

"Persona".
Released in 2022.
The regular release is a single CD but I went for the one that came with a bonus disc.
Soulful pop music.
Beautiful.
Uplifting.

'All The Way Down', live

INTIGE TALUURE

Experimental music alert !

For volume 5 of their "Newton's Flat Fidelity" series, Intige Taluure teamed up with BeNe GeSSeRiT.

The result can be found on Bandcamp but was also made available on cassette !!

COMMANDER CODY AND HIS LOST PLANET AIRMEN

Referred to as an American country/western swing band, Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen released their first album in 1971.

I got introduced to their 1988 "Sleazy Roadside Stories" and the 1993 "Lost In Space" albums yesterday, and I enjoyed them quite a lot.
 

• Commander Cody & The Lost Planet Airmen: Sleazy Roadside Stories
      (1988, cd, USA, relix records)

• Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen: Lost In Space
      (1993, cd, USA, relix records)

Here's a YouTube snippet from a 1977 concert.

-- info: Danny Mathys

BLACK FLOWER 2022 CONCERT ON YOUTUBE

A must-see and must-hear concert.

Black Flower, November 26, 2022,
Recorded at Jazztime Ravensburg.

• Nathan Daems – sax, ney, kaval, fl
• Jon Birdsong – cornet
• Karel Cuelenaere – org, clavinet
• Filip Vandebril – b
• Simon Segers – dr

 -- info: Danny Mathys

KAMEEL - BLEAK

Belgian band Kameel.

With Rudy Trouvé as a guest (on vocals)

SJAKO! ANNOUNCED A NEW ALBUM

 A new album, "Senior Citizens", and new concert dates for Dutch band Sjako!.

February 27, 2026, The tour will kick off in Haarlem.
Check https://sjako.eu/

Here's Sjako! performing FZ's 'Magic Fingers', in concert in Apeldoorn in 2016.

BOBBY BRANDFORD, MARK DRESSER & GLENN FERRIS - LIVE IN L.A.

• Bobby Bradford, Mark Dresser & Glenn Ferris: Live In L.A.
      (2011, cd, Portugal, clean feed)

Bobby Bradford (who also recorded with Don Preston) on cornet, Mark Dresser on bass, and Glenn Ferris (who performed and recorded with Frank Zappa) on trombone.
A live session, not recorded in a club before an audience, but in Bruce Fowler's (another famous Frank Zappa trombone player) living room.

-- info: Jan van Kemenade

DARKO THE SUPER - BEWARE OF BOB

Darko The Super has just released "Beware Of Bob".
Produced by MF Grimm.

‘Beware of Bob’ is an out-of-this-world album that is inspired by the truly singular television experience ‘Twin Peaks’ and rooted in Hip-Hop.

I like it.

NEW BOOK ON ZAPPA - - - FRANK ZAPPA - THE LIFE, MUSIC, AND LEGACY...

"Frank Zappa, The LIfe, Music, and Legacy of an Unconvnetional Artist - An Independent Biography"
by Susan M. Chloe

90 pages, hardcover.
It looks and reads like some sort of an AI supported introduction to FZ.