Lapis album launch

Friday 31st January 2020
UCA Bar, Canterbury

The whole band dressed as their fictional new manager Louis Padilla, to launch their new double album (CD only) Damo Suzuki & Lapis Lazuli — Live At The Ramsgate Music Hall 21.09.2019 / Louis Padilla's Muzak Uzi. They played some improv pieces based on some of the improv tracks captured on the Muzak Uzi disc, then "Reich" (from Wrong Meeting) and ended with their 4/4 fave "Hired Soul". Support from Jack Goldstein was intriguing. The audience could've been bigger, but presumably the damp weather, winter blues and Brexit Day gloom kept a lot of the Crash of Moons Club regulars away. Anyway, thanks to everyone who came down, and here are my mixes as resident DJ Professor Appleblossom:

I wasn't quite sure how to precede the unclassifiable genius that is Jack Goldstein, so I just went for a multi-genre "euphoric" vibe to counter the prevailing gloom. Not sure this worked... a lot of stylistic discontinuity, and people not really up for feeling euphoric? It got quite poppy and gospel-y at times. i went prog-euphoric before Lapis, and then a funky dance set for the party people who stuck around afterwards. The UK left the EU during Lapis's set, so we didn't have to listen to the fireworks outside. Weird night. And I played The Doobie Brothers, twice. What was that about?