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Vezhlivy Otkaz have been booked for a NY State Russian-American festival next June, think I'll go!

JETLAG-2019: ВЕЖЛИВЫЙ ОТКАЗ ("Polite Refusal")

We are proud and excited to make our first JetLAG-2019 announcement. Welcome the pioneers of Russian experimental art rock, with their inimitably sophisticated, often almost academic but also most erratic and groovy style, unique signature sound and edgy avant-guard lyrics. Back to US after almost 20-year break, now as a trio. Dmitry Shumilov - bass, vocal, Roman Suslov - guitar, vocal, Mikhail Mitin - drums. Yes, it is they! VEZHLIVY OTKAZ!

Saw Vezhlivy Otkaz last night in Drom, a small jazz club in New York City. They were everything I'd want from a gig, tight, fun, edgy and rocking. I had loads of fun and loved every minute. One of my bucket list bands I never thought I'd see ticked off. 

Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - June 26 2019 at 17:15

Thanks, this prompted me to check them out once more. Not a great success the first time but this time it seems I'm getting them!

I'm in.

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Impending album Éons by Neptunian Maximalism on pretty-far-out Italian metal label I, Voidhanger:

Edited by Mascodagama - May 04 2020 at 10:47

Mascodagama wrote: Impending album Éons by Neptunian Maximalism on pretty-far-out Italian metal label I, Voidhanger: http://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ons Blurb: <span style="caret-color: rgb209, 179, 41; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; : rgb0, 0, 0;">Belgium's NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM (aka NNMM) is a community of “cultural engineers” with a variable line-up, mixing drone metal with spiritual free jazz and psychedelic music. The project was initiated in 2018 by multi-instrumentalist Guillaume Cazalet (Czlt, Jenny Torse, Aksu, Ôros Kaù), who brought together veteran saxophonist Jean Jacques Duerinckx (Ze Zorgs) and two drummers, Sebastien Schmit (K-Branding) and Pierre Arese (Aksu). In 2020, Stephane FDL and Lukas Bouchenot took the drums. Reshma Goolamy (bass), Romain Martini (guitar), Alice Thiel (synths, guitar), Joaquin Bermudez (saz, setar), Didié Nietzche (soundscapes) and Leslie V. (black magic scenography) joined in 2019, thus changing the band into a real drone </span><span ="bctruncatemore"="" style="caret-color: rgb209, 179, 41; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">[COLOR=#333333]orchestra [...etc, etc][/COLOR]rchestra.  </span> HELLO PANHEAD

This is out now and I can’t recommend it highly enough. Absolutely awesome and epic. Spiritual jazz meets drone metal in a zone of heavily spaced-out raga rock and blackened psychedelia. Pupmeister, this has got your name written all over it!

Also, it's a concept album about how after the end of the anthropocene era mankind will be replaced as Earth's hegemonic species by a gargantuan race of intelligent elephants. And it's from Belgium. Really, what the f**k more do you want?

A new live album has just been released by Led Bib on bandcamp and its superb

Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - July 09 2020 at 18:33