Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 03/11/2020

ArtistTitleAlbum (* = New Release)
Snack CatYoung Love*
IZZDon't PanicDon't Panic*
IZZ42Don't Panic*
The Flower KingsI Am the Sun Part 1Space Revolver
Neil Alexander and NAILWhile the City DreamsTugging at the Infinite
Potters DaughterMovement IVThe Blind Side
Joey RamoneWhat A Wonderful World

Join Captain Phil this Thursday March 12th for brand new music from Snack Cat (http://snackcatband.com) Young Love ( ropeadope.lnk.to/YoungLove )!
Then the captain welcomes back Neil Alexander (http://www.nailmusic.com) in the 3pm hour to discuss The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and 42 years of knowing where your towel is!
Hitchhikers Guide first air on the BBC on ‎March 8th, 1978.

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!
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!

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.
Snack Cat's members have played and/or recorded with Roberta Flack, John Mayer, The Zach Brown Band, Grace Potter, Ben Folds, Post Modern Jukebox, John Patitucci, Jersey Boys, Greg Allman, etc. The band has had residencies at at Rockwood Music Hall and Sofar Sounds and has played other notable venues and festivals including Mercury Lounge, National Sawdust, The Tribeca Performing Arts Center, The Knitting Factory and many more.

Upcoming shows
APR 07 New York City, NY Brooklyn Bowl

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:
Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/NailAlexander/)
Twitter (https://twitter.com/nailmusic)
Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/nailmusic/)
Nail Jung: (https://nailjung.com)
X Ensemble: (https://xensemble.org)
Mr Gone: (https://mrgoneband.com)
Thunderhead Organ Trio: (https://thunderheadtrio.com)
Ableton Hudson Valley UG: (https://www.facebook.com/groups/AbletonHVUG/)

Upcoming shows:

04/04/20
Pete Furlan Project
Stone Ridge, NY Lydia’s Cafe & Bar Time: 7:00pm. 7 Old US Highway 209. Venue phone: 845-687-6373. Peter Furlan’s CD Between The Lines is gaining national attention. We’re happy to be performing this music again, at one of our fav local spots.

04/22/20
Neil Alexander & NAIL
Woodstock, NY Colony Cafe
Time: 8:00pm. 22 Rock City Rd. Venue phone: (845) 679-7625. NAIL performs at the Colony in Woodstock. Double bill with singer Sami Stevens and her band.

06/13/20
Piktor’s Metamorphosis
Union, NJ Salem Roadhouse Cafe Time: 7:00pm. Address: 829 Salem Road. Venue phone: (908) 686-1028. Piktor’s returns! Salem Roadhouse Cafe.

06/28/20
X Ensemble Newburgh, NY
Safe Harbors Green
Time: 2:00pm. Address: 107 Broadway. Venue phone: (845) 784-1199.
About this performance:
The X Ensemble and Safe Harbors of the Hudson present an outdoor afternoon concert of contemporary Chamber Music, featuring the World Premiere performance of “Convergence: Series A” (N. Alexander). The program will also feature existing works by Mr Alexander & other composers (program tbd). This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.

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
IZZ will be supporting Big Big Train
Opera House Toronto Canada

Tuesday May 12, 2020 7:45 pm
IZZ will be supporting Big Big Train
Corona Theatre Montreal, Canada

​Wednesday, May 13, 2020 8:00 pm
IZZ will be supporting Big Big Train
Theatre de la Universitaire Quebec City, Canada

​Sunday, May 17, 2020
IZZ will be supporting Big Big Train
NJ Proghouse Brook Arts Center
Bound Brook, New Jersey

Monday, May 18, 2020
IZZ will be supporting Big Big Train
NJ Proghouse Brook Arts Center
Bound Brook, New Jersey

Friday, July 17, 2020
Night of the Prog Festival
Loreley, Germany