MAMAS GUN

PaulB's video of Mamas Gun, the 'five-piece London based electric groove band'.

BEARDFISH - +4626 - COMFORTZONE

• beardfish: +4626 - comfortzone
      (2015, 2cd, ger, insideout 0507018)

Beardfish is back !
Their latest album, "+4626 - Comfortzone", exists in two versions: the 2CD 'deluxe' set that comes with a bonus disc of early years demos, and a regular 1CD album.

For those who need to know these kind of things (like myself), +4626 is the telephone area code for Gävle, Sweden, home-town of Beardfish.

MATS ÖBERG - IMPROVISATIONAL TWO.FIVE

• mats öberg: improvisational two.five
      (2014, cd, swe, caprice records cap 21838)

Excellent new record by Mats Öberg.

From the Caprice Records website :
http://musikverket.se/capricerecords/artikel/improvisational-two-five/?lang=en
Before recording the second album in the Improvisational series, Mats Öberg’s headstrong interpretations of the songs of Cornelis Vreejswijk, Mats had a difficult decision to make. He had to choose between making an album with improvisations over his uncle’s music (Berndt Egerbladh, a very well-known jazz musician in Sweden) or with the music of Cornelis Vreejswijk. In the end the decision was too hard to make so Dragan Buvac, the producer of the series, recorded two albums. Caprice decided to wait for the best possible occasion to release the Egerbladh improvisations, which proved to be during the 2014 Umeå Jazz festival with Berndt Egerbladh’s music in focus.

The conditions are the same as for the earlier releases in the series. A sumptuous concert hall containing a large Steinway grand piano, a pianist and a sound technician/producer – in the dead of night, the witching hours. Thus the mood is set for Improvisational, Caprice’s CD series of improvisations by some of our most talented musicians. Once again, Mats demonstrates what an excellent pianist and improviser he is, having already made a name for himself as a cross-genre keyboardist who has accompanied such varied artists as Ale Möller, Frank Zappa, Morgan Ågren (Mats/Morgan Band), Lena Willemark, Ann-Kristin Hedmark and Jonas Knutsson. He also plays in his own trio with Filip Augustsson (bass) and Sebastian Voegler (drums). With a sense of playfulness, mood and tenderness, Mats improvises over Berndt Egerbladh’s best-known songs, including You Never Come Closer, A Song for Amy, Worksong and Sarek. In one word: irresistible.

LEX BRONKOWITZ ORCHESTRA TO PERFORM IN KÖLN ON JUNE 05

The Lex Bronkowitz Orchestra will be performing the music of Frank Zappa in Köln / Cologne on the 5th of June.

KULTURCAFE LICHTUNG Ubierring 13 50678 Köln
21:00 h

Be sure to reschedule your agenda as this is the place where you need to be.

FIDO PLAYS ZAPPA

GOV'T MULE UPDATE

Gov't Mule, considered by some as the ultimate jam band, has just released a new album, "Sco-Mule".

The band is also starting a new tour on Feb 18, and will come to Europe in May.
Unfortunately without John Scofield, but that's no reason not the go to their concerts.
I already have my tickets printed out.

STRATOSPHEERIUS HAS A NEW SINGLE OUT

Joe Deninzon's Stratospheerius has released another download-only track through CDBaby.
It's called 'Guilty of Innocence' and can be found here:

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/stratospheerius4

SINISTER SISTER IN CONCERT IN BRUSSELS FEB 5, 2015

This Thursday, February 5th, SINISTER SISTER will perform instrumental music of the great FRANK ZAPPA!

Place to be:
BRAVO BXL
Rue Alost, 7-11
1000 Brussel
(https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bravo-Bxl/788575331172558)

Band line-up:

• Maayan Smith: tenor sax
• Jan Ghesquière: guitar
• Pieter Claus: vibraphone
• Michel Hatzigeorgiou: electric bass
• Lander Gyselinck: drums

KING CRIMSON TO TOUR EUROPE

Mon 31st Aug, Friars, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, UK
Tues 1st Sept, Friars, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, UK
Wed 3rd Sept, St.David’s Hall, Cardiff, UK
Sat 5th Sept, Dome Concert Hall, Brighton, UK
Mon 7th Sept, Hackney Empire, London, UK
Tues 8th Sept, Hackney Empire, London, UK
Fri 11th Sept, Lowry, Manchester, UK
Mon 14th Sept, Symphony Hall,Birmingham, UK
Thurs 17th Sept, Usher Hall, Edinburgh, UK
Mon 21st Sept, Olympia, Paris, France
Tue 22nd Sept, Olympia, Paris, France
Thurs 24th Sept, Tivoliredenburg, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Fri 25th Sept, Tivoliredenburg, Utrecht, The Netherlands

LET'S ZAPPALIN' AND NAPOLEON MURPHY BROCK