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News: Performance / Tour

Flat Earth Society to tour the USA in May

Flat Earth Society to tour the USA in May

Flat Earth Society is coming to the USA for their first performances ever on American soil. May 14, Tropical Heatwave, Tampa (USA première) May 15, The Palladium, St Petersburgh (Fl) May 17: Millennium Stage at The Kennedy Center, Washington May 18: Johnny Brenda's in Philadelphia May 19: Lincoln Center, Atrium Stage, NY May 20: Museum of ...

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Article: Live Review

Finland's April Jazz Festival 2010

Read "Finland's April Jazz Festival 2010" reviewed by Anthony Shaw


April Jazz Festival Espoo/Tapiola, Finland April 28-May 2, 2010 The wind in these northern climes can hit heavy, even during the sunny days of late April. This year an east wind drove down from the Arctic Ocean and any opportunity to get into the sun needed to be taken--but it's a sign ...

Album

Cheer Me, Perverts!

Label: Crammed Discs
Released: 2009
Track listing: Vole Sperm Reverie; Rearm, Get That Char!; Kotopoulopology; Blind Inside; Bad Linen; Too Sublime in Sin; Dawn on the Desert; Flatology; Smoke on Fire, The King is Burning; Mutt.

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Article: Album Review

Flat Earth Society: Cheer Me, Perverts!

Read "Cheer Me, Perverts!" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Fifteen-piece Belgian big band Flat Earth Society is the sonic equivalent of a freak show--weird, wonderful and like nothing you've come across before. Cheer Me, Perverts! is bursting with the energy of punk--sharing some of the anarchy, too--yet the CD exhibits intricate section harmonies and wonderful contrapuntal melodies. The soloists revel in their freedom, and the ...

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Article: Live Review

Montreux Jazz 2009 Festival Journal

Read "Montreux Jazz 2009 Festival Journal" reviewed by Phillip Woolever


43rd Montreux Jazz Festival Montreux, Switzerland July 5-6, 2009 Summer months of music on the European festival circuit are indeed a multi-cultural garden of both earthly delights and otherworldly musical experiences. For performers and fans alike, these planes seem to unite for unique harmonic convergences. Among many storied festivals through ...

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Article: Live Review

Flemish Jazz Meeting 2009

Read "Flemish Jazz Meeting 2009" reviewed by Martin Longley


Unaccustomed as I am to inhabiting the trade/music business function end of things, a sojourn at the Gent Jazz Festival and Jazz Middelheim in Belgium inevitably led to a swiftly-following weekend at the Flemish Jazz Meeting in the scenic city of Brugge. This is the third edition of a September band showcase that's designed to ...

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News: Recording

New Album 'Cheer Me, Perverts!, Release on Crammed Discs

New Album 'Cheer Me, Perverts!, Release on Crammed Discs

Flat Earth Society Cheer Me, Perverts! Welcome back, dear dwellers of earth, to planet FES. The finest, wildest, most colourful and least traditional jazz big band in this (or any) stratosphere return with their second album for Crammed Discs. The title, Cheer Me, Perverts! an anagram of the name of the FES main man, Belgian composer ...

Album

Psychoscout

Label: Crammed Discs
Released: 2006
Track listing: Anthem 2004; Clusterthing; Gulls & Buoys; Edward, Why Don't You Play Some Blues; Hilton's Heaven; In Between Rivers; Psychoscout; Lie To Me; Without; Snaggletooth; Lax; Waterman; Ich, Bin, George.

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Psychoscout

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Label: Crammed Discs
Released: 2006
Duration: 4:52

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Article: Album Review

Flat Earth Society: Psychoscout

Read "Psychoscout" reviewed by Nic Jones


Sit up and listen. Flat Earth Society is a big band with the integrity of a magpie, in the sense that it goes for the shiniest elements of a cultural outlook that takes in a kind of homage to Kurt Weill, incidental music for old TV detective series, and perhaps a touch of Henry Cow at ...


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