Free Radicals / Outside The Comfort Zone
Album: | Outside The Comfort Zone | Collection: | Jazz | |
Artist: | Free Radicals | Added: | Nov 2017 | |
Label: | Self Release |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2017-11-19 | Pull Date: | 2018-01-21 | Charts: | Jazz |
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Week Ending: | Jan 21 | Jan 14 | Jan 7 | Dec 31 | Dec 24 | Dec 17 | Dec 10 | Dec 3 |
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Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Oct 15, 2021: | Waste FM (rebroadcast from Dec 19, 2017)
Doomsday Clock |
4. | Jan 18, 2018: | Melange
Solidaridad De La Sierra |
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2. | Jun 28, 2018: | Melange
Carry Me To My Grave |
5. | Jan 11, 2018: | Melange
Angola 3 |
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3. | Jan 27, 2018: | Music Casserole
Carry Me To My Grave |
6. | Jan 11, 2018: | Primarily A
Doomsday Clock |
Album Review
Margy Kahn
Reviewed 2017-11-16
Reviewed 2017-11-16
Can instrumental music alone provide social commentary and political satire? The Free Radicals answer this question affirmatively with their get up and dance music to subjects that might not have seemed danceable until now. These musicians sound as if they are having lots of fun, but their titles and their music prove they are also dead serious
NO FCC's; Favorite tracks: 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 11, 15, 20, 22
*1- The Legals Have a Lunch –2:47 – Latin dance rhythm has an edgy horn section with flourishes
*2-- Doomsday Clock – 2:57-- time ticks as this klezmer-tinged piece bears down on us
3-- Chicha Revolucion -3:18 – a lot going on here but you can salsa to all of it
*4 –Carry Me to My Grave –3:17 – starts with a trumpet riff; sort of a New Orleans style funeral procession but wilder and more free form with great solos and calls and responses
5 –Screaming –3:04 –heavy metal jazz
6- Dadaab – 3:15 – refers to refugee camp in Kenya; upbeat despite that
*7 – Freedom of Consumption – 2:06 – an onslaught of sound; whirling and wild
**8 – Angola 3 –5:23 – refers to 3 men kept in solitary in Angola Prison, two for more than 40 years; vibraphone and sousaphone really rock on this; trumpet solo is pretty cool too
9 – Manifest Dust Bunny – 1:31 – sounds like its name
10 – Water Beats Rock – 3:55-- a hop, skip and a jump rhythm; sax leads the way here with pedal steel blaring out
*11- Solidaridad de la Sierra – 4:51– flute twirls along the trail with lots of pretty percussion and trumpet
12—Audacity of Drones – 1:23 – drones, not hope; more heavy metal jazz juggarnaut
13—Beyond Vietnam – 3:07-- heavy duty acid rock crossed with jazz
14- Space Witch – 2:39 – sounds reggae-ish with wild and crazy noises
*15-- Scrapple from the DAPL – 3:01 – smooth jazz; lots of horn with nice vibes
16-- New Sanctuary Movement – 4:35 – Latin jazz sound
17 – Cabinet for Sale – 3:28-- whiny pedal steel captures the mood here and settles down into straight ahead horns; then picks up speed again
18 – Stump Stomp – 2:46 starts out quiet and then gets noisier and shriekier
19 --Cheetoh news coma –:55 – insistent, persistent percussion and wailing bass horns
*20-- Survival of the Oblivious –1:49 – fast with some steel drum sounds
21- Ambush Ice – 2:27 – slippery!
*22-- A Call for All Demons –4:59 – Sun Ra tune; lots of texture and interest
23—American Food Chain –1:09-- scraping horns and fading percussion
NO FCC's; Favorite tracks: 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 11, 15, 20, 22
*1- The Legals Have a Lunch –2:47 – Latin dance rhythm has an edgy horn section with flourishes
*2-- Doomsday Clock – 2:57-- time ticks as this klezmer-tinged piece bears down on us
3-- Chicha Revolucion -3:18 – a lot going on here but you can salsa to all of it
*4 –Carry Me to My Grave –3:17 – starts with a trumpet riff; sort of a New Orleans style funeral procession but wilder and more free form with great solos and calls and responses
5 –Screaming –3:04 –heavy metal jazz
6- Dadaab – 3:15 – refers to refugee camp in Kenya; upbeat despite that
*7 – Freedom of Consumption – 2:06 – an onslaught of sound; whirling and wild
**8 – Angola 3 –5:23 – refers to 3 men kept in solitary in Angola Prison, two for more than 40 years; vibraphone and sousaphone really rock on this; trumpet solo is pretty cool too
9 – Manifest Dust Bunny – 1:31 – sounds like its name
10 – Water Beats Rock – 3:55-- a hop, skip and a jump rhythm; sax leads the way here with pedal steel blaring out
*11- Solidaridad de la Sierra – 4:51– flute twirls along the trail with lots of pretty percussion and trumpet
12—Audacity of Drones – 1:23 – drones, not hope; more heavy metal jazz juggarnaut
13—Beyond Vietnam – 3:07-- heavy duty acid rock crossed with jazz
14- Space Witch – 2:39 – sounds reggae-ish with wild and crazy noises
*15-- Scrapple from the DAPL – 3:01 – smooth jazz; lots of horn with nice vibes
16-- New Sanctuary Movement – 4:35 – Latin jazz sound
17 – Cabinet for Sale – 3:28-- whiny pedal steel captures the mood here and settles down into straight ahead horns; then picks up speed again
18 – Stump Stomp – 2:46 starts out quiet and then gets noisier and shriekier
19 --Cheetoh news coma –:55 – insistent, persistent percussion and wailing bass horns
*20-- Survival of the Oblivious –1:49 – fast with some steel drum sounds
21- Ambush Ice – 2:27 – slippery!
*22-- A Call for All Demons –4:59 – Sun Ra tune; lots of texture and interest
23—American Food Chain –1:09-- scraping horns and fading percussion
Track Listing
1. | The Legals Have A Lunch | 12. | Audacity Of Drones | |||
2. | Doomsday Clock | 13. | Beyond Vietnam | |||
3. | Chicha Revolucion | 14. | Space Witch | |||
4. | Carry Me To My Grave | 15. | Scrapple From The Dapl | |||
5. | Screaming | 16. | New Sanctuary Movement | |||
6. | Dadaab | 17. | Cabinet For Sale | |||
7. | Freedom Of Consumption | 18. | Stump Stomp | |||
8. | Angola 3 | 19. | Cheetoh News Coma | |||
9. | Manifest Dust Bunny | 20. | Survival Of The Oblivious | |||
10. | Water Beats Rock | 21. | Ambush Ice | |||
11. | Solidaridad De La Sierra | 22. | A Call For All Demons | |||
23. | American Food Chain |