Album Notes

A double CD set; “The Safenzee Diaries” is Frogg Café’s first ever official live release, the band’s 4th overall release and their first for 10T Records. The 6 piece New York-based band has made quite a name for themselves for their energetic live shows which feature extended flights of group improvisation that draw grins from prog fans, jazz fusion fans, and even hardcore jam-band fans.

In fact, it is these live performances that have historically set Frogg Café apart, with each show being a unique and exhilarating one of a kind event. “The Safenzee Diaries” fully captures Frogg Café on stage, preserving the fiery world-class musicianship and unexpected interplay that have garnered the band praise from around the world. Featuring recordings from performances at NEARfest, the NJ Proghouse, Orion Studios in Baltimore, and Nectar's in Burlington, “The Safenzee Diaries” also incorporates live in the studio jams intertwined between tracks. Additionally, there are energetic reinterpretations of classic Frogg Café tunes featuring different solos and sometimes entirely new arrangements, plus three brand new tunes never heard before.

Perhaps no one can describe the end result better than Frogg Café’s own Andy Sussman (bass), who says, "This is a true representation of the energy of our music, which on a studio album is very hard to achieve. This release represents the best of hundreds of hours of live shows and live in the studio jams. This really is a road trip musical diary of all of our great memories and crazy moments on stage and off.