FES - Trap

The opening swing band freneticisms of "Mixture" should leave no doubt that Flat Earth Society is a crazy jazz band at heart, but Trap might also be the Fes album most likely to snare fans of the group's antecedent, X-legged Sally. Xls was a Zappa-influenced jazz-rock band par excellence, and that group's leader, clarinetist/composer Peter Vermeersch, is in the driver's seat here as well. And, like the other Fes discs, the band's lineup includes a handful of former Xls members. Read More