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Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 02/27/2020
By captphil on Thu, 02/27/2020 - 3:25pm
Join Captain Phil this Thursday as he welcomes Neil Alexander (http://www.nailmusic.com) in the 3pm hour to discuss his gig in Garwood, NJ at Crossroads, his CD releases including Bent, Tugging At The Infinite, Galvanized and his work with Piktors Metamorphosis and More! Also join us in the 4pm hour for our good friend Joe Deninzon and Stratospheerius (https://stratospheerius.com/) for their upcoming Stringfest show at Arlene’s Grocery 95 Stanton St..NYC 7:00pm. and also his upcoming tour with Potter's Daughter and Dark Beauty! Finally return to Moonbase Alpha with actor Anton Phillips who played Dr Bob Mathias in Space 1999 in an interview recorded at the 2019 Space 1999 convention in Bethlehem PA! All this and the best Prog Rock on any planet when you set coordinates to 90.1 fm on Thursday from 3pm to 5pm and land on Captain Phil's Planet! 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: 02/29/20 04/04/20 04/22/20 06/13/20 06/28/20 Joe Deninzon (https://stratospheerius.com/) Led by electric violinist/vocalist Joe Deninzon , who has been called The Jimi Hendrix of the electric violin, Stratospheerius has showcased their “frenzied melange of progressive rock, jazz fusion and funkabilly” throughout the world. The New York-based group has opened for Martin Barre, Alex Skolnick, John 5 & The Creatures, Gary Hoey, Mike Stern, Tim Reynolds, Mickey Hart, and John Scofield, among many others. The group’s influences include Yes, Spock’s Beard, Muse, Frank Zappa, Mahavishnu Orchestra, and King Krimson. Stratospheerius was a winner of the John Lennon International Songwriting Competition the Musicians Atlas Independent Music Awards. They have been featured in Progression, Relix, Downbeat, and Jazziz, among other publications. Their latest CD on Melodic Revolution Records, Guilty of Innocence, has been widely acclaimed by critics and fans. STRATOSPHEERIUS 03/11/20 Teaneck, NJ Debonair Music House 03/12/20 Brooklyn, NY Bushwick Public House 03/13/20 Dunellen, NJ Roxy & Duke’s 03/14/20 Nyack, NY Olive’s Time: 9:00pm. 06/13/20 Baltimore, MD Orion Studios Anton Phillips (http://catacombs.space1999.net/main/crguide/vcb.html#AntonPhillips) Anton Phillips (born 31 October 1943) is a Jamaican-born British actor who found success appearing in British television. He remains best known for his role as Dr. Bob Mathias in the science fiction series Space 1999. Phillips was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and attended Manchester High School in Mandeville, Jamaica, before his family relocated to Washington, D.C., in the United States, where he graduated from high school. He then moved to the United Kingdom in the 1960s and in 1969 attended Rose Bruford College drama school,[1]. After drama school Anton Phillips began an acting career in Britain that broke many racial barriers, appearing as the first black actor in many TV series, including General Hospital, The Saint, The Bill, and becoming best known as a cast member of Space 1999. His professional life has been dedicated to the promotion of black theatre and to that end Phillips started a number of projects that significantly changed the profile of black and Asian theatre in Britain. These included the Carib Theatre Company (formed with Yvonne Brewster in 1980),[2] the Black Theatre Season,[3] and the Black Theatre Forum, initiatives that were responsible for giving opportunities to many black and Asian writers, actors and theatre technicians. Under his direction, Carib Theatre's production of The Amen Corner by James Baldwin was the first black-produced and directed play to transfer to the West End of London, an important theatre area.[5] Phillips directed a revival of the play, again at The Tricycle, in 1999. Major productions have included Remembrance by Derek Walcott, and Sitting in Limbo — a play written by Phillips's then wife, actress Judy Hepburn (about Phyllis Coard and the Grenada Revolution), which played in London and toured to Jamaica. Carib Theatre also specialised in theatre in education, and toured schools across London for several years, playing to some 30,000 children. The Black Theatre Season significantly changed the profile of black and Asian theater in Britain. Before the first season, which started in 1983 at the Arts Theatre in London’s West End, black theatre was largely relegated to draughty church halls and rooms in community centres on the outskirts of cities.[citation needed] However, now black and Asian plays were presented in legitimate theatres with all their facilities of sound, light and comfort. As season followed season for seven years, companies, writers and actors were accorded prominence and respect within the profession and the wider society. Phillips has also worked for the British Council in Ghana, where in 1994 he directed Trevor Rhone's Old Story Time as the first major production at the newly built National Theatre. Phillips also lectured at the School of Performing Arts, University of Ghana, and for three years was a consultant for the British Council on a special project in Tanzania to create a company of performers and teach them the principals and practice of theatre in education. He has directed in Germany, the Netherlands, and France. He has also managed a 60-strong company of singers, dancers, and musicians from South Africa on a touring tribute to Oliver Tambo that was presented at the Barbican Centre in London and at Salisbury Cathedral, England. Inspired by the Area Youth Foundation of Kingston, Jamaica, Phillips founded the Stonebridge Area Youth Project (SAY), a performance-based project for disaffected young people between the ages of 14 and 24 based in Stonebridge, a London housing estate.[10] Through performing arts workshops, SAY encouraged youths to re-engage with society by going back into education and learning life-skills to help them into employment. This project lasted for four years. He also directed Oliver Samuels, a Jamaican comic actor, in London's Blue Mountain Theatre for three years of plays that drew audiences of up to 3,000 at the Hammersmith Apollo theatre. In 2008 Phillips performed Aimé Césaire's powerful epic poem Notebook of a Return to my Native Land, with music from Errol John, at the George Padmore Institute in London, as a tribute to Césaire. In addition to being an actor, director and producer, Phillips has contributed to magazines and newspapers, usually writing about the state of black arts in the UK.[13] He has also produced the documentary film Home Sweet Harlesden, a collection of interviews with the first Caribbean immigrants to Britain. Phillips was awarded the 2015 Edric Connor Trailblazer Award at the 10th Screen Nation Film and Television Awards. List of plays Anton discusses at the end of the talk that were staged in pate September 2019 at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre Missing Pieces is a series of script in hand performances showcasing classic and new plays from African/Caribbean, Black British writers. All about raw theatre, pure script, with you the audience bringing your imagination, Missing Pieces is theatre at its most diverse, on and off the stage. It is about plays not seen or heard outside London. Following Dipo Agboluaje’s Early Morning and Levi David Addai's House of Agnes earlier this year, the programme returns for its next set of script-in-hand performances this September. MISSING PIECES IN CONVERSATION MISSING PIECES GIRLS MISSING PIECES ELMINA'S KITCHEN 'An angry, provocative, vital play.' The Guardian MISSING PIECES CROWNING GLORY |
