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Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 04/16/2026

https://toddmosbymusic.com/

Among Missouri’s modern musical masters is composer, guitarist, and Imrat guitar inventor Todd Mosby. The St. Louis, MO-based artist’s latest album, American Heartland, is the second chapter in a musical travelogue that tone-paints the geography and spirit of America. It’s a sonic tribute to the only state that could produce a Todd Mosby.
“I have a lot of roots in where I grew up,” says Mosby. “It’s really isolated, but it’s also very rich in musical history and culture. You can absorb it all and still have the freedom to develop your own voice.”
Mosby is an award-winning musician who regularly collaborates with some of the most revered studio musicians in the industry. His music synthesizes the sounds of Missouri into a genre-defying, evocative language. A virtuoso musician with a painter’s imagination, Mosby uses jazz, folk, New Age, rock, blues, North Indian classical music, bossa nova, and more to create richly-textured geotemporal soundscapes.
https://youtu.be/C1D1T0bzS2I?si=P1-u0EMFmj-rg0Gh

Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 04/09/2026

https://nailmusic.com/

Sat
11
Gerry Malkin Sextet
April 11 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Bean Runner Cafe 201 South Division St, Peekskill, NY, US
Saxophonist Gerry Malkin leads his group at the Bean Runner in Peekskill. The Sextet includes Gerry Malkin (sax), Chris Morrison (guitar), Neil Alexander (piano), Preston Murphy (bass), and Bobby Leonard (drums). Call for reservations at 914-737-1701.

Thu
16
Wallkill River Center For the Arts presents an evening of Live Ambient Music
April 16 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Wallkill River Center for the Arts 232 Ward St., Montgomery, NY, United States
The Wallkill River Center for the Aerts will present an Evening of Live Ambient music with Craig Chin and Adam Holquist , both establised ambient music artists. I will perform a short ambient solo set as well. Detials TBA. https://wallkill.art/event/concert-an-evening-of-ambient-music-with-neil...

Sat
18
TRILOKA Returns!
April 18 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Bean Runner Cafe 201 South Division St, Peekskill, NY, US

Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 03/18/2026

Today on Captain Phil's Planet welcome Jeff Beal, composer pianist as he talks about his new work NY Etudes Vol 2 aned his struggle with MS. Join me will be Kathleen Kate Valerio of Health Matters,
WUSB Stony Brook 90.1 fm and 107.3 fm and streaming at www.wusb.fm
March 26-27, 2026
JEFF BEAL
New York Études, Vol. II (World Premiere)
For two nights only, we have the incredible privilege of welcoming Five-time EMMY® winning composer Jeff Beal to the Crypt, to perform the World Premiere of Volume II of his acclaimed New York Études for solo piano. These intimate, reflective works were born from Beal's experience of living with the chronic illness Multiple Sclerosis (MS), and the performances will take place during MS Awareness Month in March. Beal will release the recording of New York Études, Vol. II on the Platoon label.

Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 03/11/2026

Refestramus will return with their third studio album, Morri’s Rock Boutique, a nine-track release scheduled to be on all streaming media this March 20, 2026, via Melodic Revolution Records. The album is now available for pre-order and CD shipping.

refestramus.bandcamp.com/album/morri-s-rock-boutique

Entering its most ambitious era to date, Refestramus expands its sonic and visual universe with Morri’s Rock Boutique, a surreal desert-western dreamscape filled with ferris wheels, neon temples, and wandering ghosts of memory. The album blends cinematic atmospheres with adventurous progressive rock, pushing the band’s storytelling and musical depth further than ever before. Powerplay calls the album, “Grown-up prog, full of great musicianship and songwriting.”

Morri’s Rock Boutique features standout contributions from Jan Christiana and Dyanne Potter Voegtlin (Octarine Sky), along with notable guest performances by David Jackson (Van der Graaf Generator), Rick Witkowski (Crack the Sky), Joe Deninzon (Kansas), Lynx (Old Blood), and Japanese vocalist Nam Chumo.

Musicians

Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 02/26/2026

We have brought in some great guest musicians including Ruben Riera and Steve Mitchell of Paul’s band
“Cho-Zen Few”, Dave Newhouse of “The Muffins”, Clara Belle Hembree from the band “Maheekats”, and
Courtney Odom of Miami, Az. For this album
-Tenk Van Dool
Basal Ardor meaning
**Basal**: Refers to something foundational, elemental, or at the base level—like the root of a plant, the
baseline of a process, or a primal instinct (e.g., basal metabolic rate in biology).
**Ardor**: Means intense passion, zeal, or fervent enthusiasm,
often with a fiery or emotional connotation.
Together, "basal ardor" might suggest a **primal or foundational passion**
—an innate, underlying drive or enthusiasm that's essential and unadorned,
like the raw spark of motivation at the core of human (or natural) existence.

https://www.dekoentertainment.com/
https://maheekats.bandcamp.com/

Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 02/12/2026

Interview with Jane Getter and Joe Deninzon

Stratospheerius is thrilled to announce that the great Neil Nail Alexander will be joining us on keyboards for our show with Jane Getter Premonition March 1st at The Iridium. Neil has never played our music before, but I think he's gonna NAIL it!
Get your tickets here!
https://www.theiridium.com/.../jane.../march-1st-2026...

https://janegetter.com/

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https://www.kansasband.com/