The Armstrong Mutations
Question: How does Flat Earth Society takes hold on the music of Louis Armstrong? Eighteen white zulu's straight from the Belgian jungle meet the big black smurf from perdido-black and blue. The darkness, the blues, the funeral and the streetparade, the inbouncable vitality, the gospel, the golden intro's, the evergreens and the jungle-jazz. Satchmo, the macho, the intaking, the outtaking, the angular, the raging, the sentimental, the groweer, wornout, unheard-old cadil-
lacs never die. His godly guds burst, and like an alien, FES force themselves a way out and bothers without shame all the rooftiles.
Question is also: How does Armstrong takes hold on the music of Flat Earth Society? After thirteen Armstrong-mutations, only FES remains and carries on.
'The Armstrong Mutations' are a project of 'Ancienne Belgique' and went into premiere on the 30th of August during ' Boterhammen in de stad'. The cd was recorded the end of Novermber 2002, in studio Dada in Brussels under the expert knowledge of Pierre Vervloesem, who also will finalize the cd.
Past dates
19 November 2005
Big Bang, KC Vooruit, Belgium
15 July 2004
La Roche s/Yon, France
13 June 2003
Philip Morris Jazzweekend, Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands
19 July 2003
Blue Note Festival, Ghent, Belgium
13 August 2003
Jazz Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium
14 August 2003
Binnenstadsfestival, Spijkenisse, The Netherlands
15 August 2003
Theaterfestival Boulevard, Den Bosch, The Netherlands
16 August 2003
Jazzenede, Assenede, Belgium
29 August 2003
Bijloke, Ghent, Belgium
14 September 2003
Fortsel, Mortsel, Belgium
01 October 2003
Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
02 October 2003
Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium
03 October 2003
CC De Mol, Lier, Belgium
04 October 2003
Warande, Turnhout, Belgium
07 October 2003
Stadsschouwburg, Brugge, Belgium
08 October 2003
CC Leuven, Belgium
09 October 2003
CC De Spil, Roeselare, Belgium
10 October 2003
CC De Schakel, Waregem, Belgium
11 October 2003
CC De Herbakker, Eeklo, Belgium
16 October 2003
CC Schoten, Belgium
17 October 2003
Schouwburg Mechelen, Belgium
18 October 2003
CC De Adelberg, Lommel, Belgium
21 October 2003
Singel, Antwerp, Belgium
22 October 2003
Stadsschouwburg, Kortrijk, Belgium
24 October 2003
CC Muze Heusden-Zolder, Belgium
25 October 2003
CC 't Getouw, Mol, Belgium
30 August 2002
Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium (première)