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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 write your comments about the article :: © 2017 Jazz News :: home page |