Flat Earth Society - Presents Psychoscout
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CRAMMED 128
Excellent album of avant/progressive music by a very impressive ensemble! Recommended!
Flat Earth Society was founded in 1998, when clarinetist and composer and producer Peter Vermeersch, wanted to explore new horizons after his bands Maximalist! and the cult legend band X-legged Sally. Vermeersch assembled a pack of inspired and inimitable musicians, forming a big band which has nowadays become much more than just a big band. The band now consists of a permanent group of 14 musicians: Stefaan Blancke (trombone), Benjamin Boutreur (saxes), Berlinde Deman (bass tuba), Bart Maris (trumpet), Michel Mast (saxes), Marc Meeuwissen (trombone), Kristof Roseeuw (double bass), Luc Van Lieshout (trumpet), Bruno Vansina (saxes), Peter Vandenberghe (of Univers Zero) (keyboards), Teun Verbruggen (percussion), Wim Willaert (accordion), Tom Wouters (clarinet, percussion). They mix whimsy and sophistication, humor and virtuosity, and composition and improvisation to create its dynamic trademark sound.
"The group’s music embraces influences ranging from rock to avant-garde classical to jazz to cartoon music. Pyschoscout is their eighth recording. American critics have called Flat Earth Society “a band capable of everything from beautiful chamber jazz miniatures to slinky crime-theme jazz noir to driving rock rhythms” (Sean Westergaard, All Music Guide) and “an unruly confluence of Carl Stalling’s ‘Merrie Melodies’, Henry Mancini’s cosmopolitan swank, and Sun Ra’s cosmic slop—all performed with the whiplash attention span of John Zorn’s Naked City”-Matthew Murphy, Pitchfork Media.
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- UPC876623004127