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Free Radicals Has Weathered The Floods Relatively Intact, And Are Adding In Benefit Concerts For Flood Releif

Free Radicals Has Weathered The Floods Relatively Intact, And Are Adding In Benefit Concerts For Flood Relief

Sun Sep 10, 9 - 10pm
Hurricane Houston Food Not Bombs Benefit Concert with Metanoia and lots of others
Sun Sep 17, 6 - 9pm
Peace News fundraiser @ Mennonite Church, 1231 Wirt Rd

Free Radicals
Celebrate The Release of Their New CD
"Outside the Comfort Zone"

Beaumont CD Release
Fri Sep 22, 10:00pm – 11:59am
Texas Rose Saloon, 2013 S. MLK, Beaumont TX
Houston CD Release

Saturday, September 23rd
11:00pm – 12:59am
Last Concert Cafe Houston
1403 Nance St
Houston, TX 77002
(713) 226-8563
www.lastconcert.com

Austin CD release
Saturday, September 30th
11:00pm – 12:00am
Sahara Lounge
1413 Webberville Rd
Austin, TX 78721
(512) 927-0700
www.saharalounge.com

Artist: Free Radicals
Title: Outside The Comfort Zone
Catalog Number: RWE017
Artist Website: freerads.com
Release Date: Oct. 1, 2017
UPC Code: 654483001728

Musicians & Songwriters:

Pete Sullivan: bari sax
Jason Jackson: alto sax
Aaron Varnell: tenor sax
Tom VandenBoom: trombone
Matt Serice: trumpet & keys
Nick Cooper: drums & perc.
Al Bear: guitar
Jacob Breier: bass
Nick Gonzalez: sousaphone

In 1998, Free Radicals' first CD "The Rising Tide Sinks All" warned against the next Iraq War four years before it started. A decade later, Pakistan's leading English newspaper, Dawn, called the CD "a premonition waiting to become true." In 2012, Free Radicals' fourth CD "The Freedom Fence" warned against border walls four years before Trump made them a cornerstone of his campaign for president.

Now on its 20th year, Free Radicals presents a new CD "Outside the Comfort Zone, " that warns against a white supremacist apartheid society in which consumers are oblivious to human rights abuses going on right outside the window.

Free Radicals is a horn-driven instrumental dance band with a commitment to peace and justice, and is the 13 time winner for "Best Jazz" in the Houston Press Music Awards. Equally comfortable performing in clubs, street protests, punk rock house-parties, art openings, weddings, funerals, and breakdance competitions, Free Radicals prides itself in adaption and supporting members of targeted communities for whom "apartheid" is not merely a metaphor.

On the new recording, Free Radicals welcomes many guests including Harry Sheppard & Damon Choice, two elder vibraphonists who played with Benny Goodman and Sun Ra Arkestra respectively, along with a dozen other long time collaborators.

"The horn-heavy, continually evolving collective Free Radicals produces a wildly eclectic fusion that has as many influences as there are items in the Houston, Texas, pawnshop in which they honed their sound during all-night jam sessions." - The New Yorker




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