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Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 03/11/2020
By captphil on Thu, 03/12/2020 - 4:34pm
Join Captain Phil this Thursday March 12th for brand new music from Snack Cat (http://snackcatband.com) Young Love ( ropeadope.lnk.to/YoungLove )! Also join us in the 4pm hour for the music of IZZ (http://www.izzmusic.com/) and their album Don't Panic! and talk with the band as they discuss Jackie Robinson, Douglas Adams and their upcoming tour with the band Big Big Train! Snack Cat (http://www.snackcatband.com/) Snack Cat is a NYC based band that features some of the cities top musicians and is signed to Ropadope Records. If Vulfpeck, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Lake Street Dived, Jimmy Hendrix and Chaka Khan were to have a child and that child became a total party animal, then you might have something that that resembled Snack Cat. Upcoming shows MAY 22 Jersey City, NJ Fox and Crow Neil “Nail” Alexander (http://www.nailmusic.com) NEIL ALEXANDER is a world renowned Pianist, Synthesist, Keyboardist & Composer who works with music in all forms and styles (including jazz, rock, funk, blues, electronica, ambient and contemporary classical), as well as music production and composition for Modern Dance, Theater and Film. In 2015 Neil was awarded Individual Artist Of The Year by the NY Orange County Arts Council. Neil’s 3 main projects are “Neil Alexander & NAIL“, a funk based World Jazz Fusion outfit now in it’s 21st year, the “X Ensemble”, a contemporary chamber ensemble of mixed instrumentation currently preparing for a world premiere performance in June of 2020, and “Nail Jung”, the name Neil uses for his experimental electronic music recordings and performances. Additional projects include “Cloudburst” (a funky jam band from Woodstock NY), “Mr. GONE“ (a Weather Report and Headhunters tribute group), “Piktor’s Metamorphosis” (Classic jazz fusion) and the “Thunderhead Organ Trio”, as well as contributing to many other projects including Telepathic Moondance, The Peter Furlan Project, Steve Frieder’s Fried Funk, and a 4th Saturday Jazz (4SJ) residency in his home base of Newburgh NY. His most recent CD releases are a trio of recordings: a live Solo Piano performance from Los Angeles in 2013 featuring the “Rite Of Spring”, a live performance by NAIL at the Blue Note in NYC, and “Overview Effect”, a solo electronic cd. All of these are released on the Pdog Records label [www.music.nailmusic.com]. Neil has a recording and/or a performance history with a wide variety of groups and artists such as Pee Wee Ellis, The Machine, The Mahavishnu Project, Joe Lovano, Marty Balin, Tony “Thunder” Smith, Decora, Gunther Hampel, Tal Ross (P-Funk), Charles Haynes, Erik Lawrence, and The Adaptors Movement Theater among many others. He has composed extensively for Modern Dance, working with such Choreographers as Kevin Wynn, Molly Poerstel, Larry Clark, Lane Gifford and Jonathan Riedel, as well as SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance students and faculty. His compositions have featured many times as part of the Conservatory’s Nanang Academy of Fine Arts exchange program in Singapore. Not one to let things lie, there’s more: he also fronts “Scene Re-seen” (live electronic scoring of silent films), teaches Master Classes in Synthesizer Programming and Music Performance Technology and heads up the Ableton Hudson Valley Users Group. Neil Alexander on: Upcoming shows: 04/04/20 04/22/20 06/13/20 06/28/20 IZZ (http://www.izzmusic.com/) Founded by Galgano brothers (Tom and John) IZZ has performed at numerous venues and festivals including, Rosfest 2004, CalProg 2004/2005/2008, Progday 2002/2006/2019, Terra Incognita 2012, 2014, 2019 and Nearfest 2007. IZZ released their latest studio album, Don't Panic, in May 2019. IZZ’s musicians are talented multi-instrumentalists and adept at multi-part vocal harmonies. Lead vocals are shared between the Galgano brothers (Tom and John), while the percussion duties are split in a decidedly unique way: Greg DiMiceli plays an acoustic kit while Brian Coralian uses his various acoustic and electronic percussives to accent and enhance the rhythmic structure of IZZ’s tunes. The result is a fascinating palette of sounds and a bold statement in a genre where fans and musicians too often cringe at the thought of any kind of electronic percussion. Guitarist Paul Bremner brings his own emotional, virtuosic guitar work into the mix and along with John on bass and Tom on keyboards, round out the instrumentation. The stunning voices of Anmarie Byrnes and Laura Meade on lead and backing vocals complete the unique IZZ sound Upcoming Shows Monday May 11, 2020 7:30 pm Tuesday May 12, 2020 7:45 pm Wednesday, May 13, 2020 8:00 pm Sunday, May 17, 2020 Monday, May 18, 2020 Friday, July 17, 2020 |