ABSTRACT LOGIX

The Abstract Logix record label is releasing three new albums :

• Tedeschi Trucks Band: Let Me Get By
  
• Snarky Puppy: Family Dinner Volume Two
  
• Beledo: Dreamland Mechanism

MOSCA VIOLENTA / MOMBU - HUNTING DEMONS

• mosca violenta / mombu: hunting demons
      (2015, lp, france, head records)

After sharing the bill one one date while on tour, Italian duo Mombu and French trio Mosca Violenta decided to do a project together.
You might know that Mosca Violenta used to be called Les Yeux De La Tête and that the saxophone player of the Mombu duo is also a part of Zu.

The recording session of the resulting ensemble featured two drummers, one bass player and two saxophone players.
"Hunting Demons" presents four compositions of haunting, instrumental music.
Worth checking out.

Released on the French Head Records label.
http://www.head-records.com/

Available from Mandaï
www.mandai.be

PISCINE - OLYMPIQUE

• piscine: olympique
      (2015, lp, france, a tant rêver du roi)

Don't you love it when a band that's called Piscine (Swimming Pool) releases an album entitled "Olympic" (piscine olympique = olympic swimming pool)?
It fits the superb artwork perfectly !

A noise / fuzz guitar combined with math / prog rock drumming and heavy bass lines.
Very energetic and powerful.
This French trio sure knows how to rock.
Their first album.
Wowie zowie.

Highly recommended !!

Available from Mandaï.
http://www.mandai.be/

http://atrdr.net/

Check it out !!

KEVIN KASTNING / MARK WINGFIELD - ELEVEN ROOMS

• kevin kastning / mark wingfield: eleven rooms
      (2015, cd, usa, greydisc gdr3528)

Last week, I received "Eleven Rooms" a beautiful collaboration between Kevin Kastning and Mark Wingfield.
Kevin Kastning, as you might know, explores the sounds of the acoustic guitars, performing on a 36-string double contraguitar, a 30-string contra-alto guitar, a 6-string classical guitar and a mandolin.
Mark Wingfield is an electric guitar player. Last year, Mark released the impressive "Proof Of Light" on the MoonJune Record label.

On "Eleven Rooms", the duo pays tribute to Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. The liner notes explain that it's the combination of light and shadow, the stillness and the mystery of the paintings that inspired the music.
11 tracks.
11 mysterious soundscapes,
A beautiful combination of electric and acoustic sounds.

Out on the Greydisc label.
www.kevinkastning.com - www.markwingfield.com
Recommended listening.

Here's a sample.

'NEW' ZAPPA RADIO BROADCAST ALBUM

Entitled "Ahoy There", this album presents Frank Zappa's 1980 Rotterdam concert as broadcast on Dutch national radio.

Recordings of this concert can already be found on numerous bootlegs. Now, the so-called radio-broadcast record labels will probably be releasing a bunch of different titles from this broadcast as well.

A SUN RA UPDATE

From Irwin Chusid / Saturn Newsgroup


LP / CD / 7" singles / 10" EPs on Modern Harmonic, a new imprint from Sundazed:

Space Age Is Here to Stay: Sun Ra & His Interplanetary Vocal Arkestra
Double gatefold LP of vocal tracks spanning 25 years, including several previously unreleased tracks. In production, release date TBD, hopefully late spring. Will use new remasters, with an additional QC pass by mastering wizard Bob Irwin.

7" singles:

Saturn / Mystery Mr. Ra
El is a Sound of Joy / Black Sky and Blue Moon
Plutonian Nights / Reflects Motion (Part One)
10" EPs:
Rocket Number Nine / Ankhnation / Project Black Mass
The Lady with the Golden Stockings / Spontaneous Simplicity / Lover in Outer Space (vocal)
Nuclear War / Outer Reach Intense Energy (early version) / Twlight

All the above will feature cover art licensed from the estate of Chesley Bonestell, renowned science fiction illustrator.

Recent digital issues:

Soul Vibrations of Man
Despite the inherent flaws of the original live recordings/mixes, the digital release is an upgrade in audio quality. The digital album has also been sectioned into individual tracks with titles, which were missing from the Saturn LP (but were listed in Earthly Recordings).

Sun Ra: Paris 1983
A previously unreleased, well-recorded 1983 Paris date, from a tape transfer provided by Hartmut Geerken via Peter Dennett. This is not the SR All-Stars, who also performed in Europe around this time — this is the Arkestra. Digital cover art adapted from figures by Jim Flora.

Sun Ra & His Arkestra at Inter-Media Arts, 1991
Previously unreleased, stunningly recorded 1991 performance at Huntington, Long Island arts venue. Originally aired on WNYC in late ’91, and posted for streaming on their website in 2014 for the Sun-tennial. The digital album is separated into individual tracks (in sequence), and the pdf booklet contains track titles (not posted on WNYC site), corrected personnel info, and the backstory. This performance took place after Ra recovered from a stroke. This band packs a wallop. We were provided with a 24-bit, 96Khz transfer from tape by WNYC, who consented to its commercial release. Digital cover adapted from an early 1950s Jim Flora figure study.

Cosmos
In final stages of completion, probably available within a week.

Upcoming: Taking a Chance on Chances (including Side A without defects), Crystal Spears, and Cymbals (both with bonus material).

TERRY BOZZIO - COMPOSER SERIES, DELUXE EDITION

• terry bozzio: composer series, deluxe edition
      (2015, 4cd + dvd + 2blu-ray, japan, ward records)

Next to the 'regular' 4 CD /DVD and 4 CD/blu-ray edition, the Ward Records label als issued a 4 CD/DVD/2 blu-ray package entitled "Composer Series".
It does, of course, offer the same four audio discs but also adds some extras.
The most impressive part of this lot, however, it the 11" hardcover book in which the discs are offered. The book shows all of Terry's paintings in perfect quality.
True, you also got this in the cd-booklet of the regular package, but this sure does look nice...

ZAPPA'S ROXY THE MOVIE RELEASED IN A LUXURIOUS BOX IN JAPAN

Frank Zappa's "Roxy The Movie" got a luxurious release in Japan.
Housed in a 12" box, the happy owner gets a blu-ray video, an audio CD and a cassette.
Plus a t-shirt.
Apparently, Yamaha Music Media had scheduled two variations: one with a cassette and another one with an LP. Unfortunately, the LP-version didn't make it.

'NEW' CAPTAIN BEEFHEART ALBUM

Out on the Go Faster Records label.
Captain Beefheart : Plastic Factory.
CD

"Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band had supported Love at the Avalon Ballroom a month before, but they returned on June 17th 1966 as headliners. Then seen as a blues musician with a big voice, rather than the avant-garde experimentalist he would become, Beefheart didn't disappoint, performing no fewer than four Howlin' Wolf numbers in amongst a number of other blues covers and a smattering of originals. The Magic Band at this time were Doug Moon and Alex St. Clair on guitars, Jerry Handley on bass and Paul Blakely on drums. The Oxford Circle supported on the night, and coming from a Them/Yardbirds impulse as they did, they were well received by the blues enthusiasts in attendance. This Avalon show is augmented here by a number of bonus cuts from radio sessions and demos recorded between 1966 and 1968, all originals and all in surprisingly good quality for material of this vintage. The CD is completed with a rare radio interview (well, more of a chat really) between veteran Brit DJ John Peel and Beefheart, recorded one night in 1973 when the Good Captain joined Peel on his radio show, while touring the UK."

FLAT EARTH DAY AT BOZAR

Flat Earth Day is a FES-tival that will be held at Bozar (Brussels, Belgium) on March 19.

concerts by
- Too Noisy Fish
- Bart Maris & Loops
- Bruno Vansina
- Flat Earth Society featuring Mauro Pawlowski and Pierre Vervloesem

http://www.bozar.be/nl/activities/107416-flat-earth-society-mauro-pawlowski---terms-of-embarrassment