Thursday, July 1, 2010

VARIOUS ARTISTS - 21 BURNT WEENY SANDWICHES


Project co-ordinator Andrew Greenaway says:
Fraz (Knapp) is to blame for all this. Here's what he said when first floating the idea: "Imagine...Burnt Weeny Sandwich (anniversary)...the entire album in one song x by 20 artists or so...each artist creatively fits in all the melody's and arrangements into a 3-4 min piece, then a choice producer compiles his choice of each piece from all of the contributions to compile his own version of the album...may sound a bit weird but I've been playing with it and it could work...ie. set out some of the grooves from the album and go about fitting the melody's etc. over the top and inbetweens?"

The result is in my CD-player right now, and I'll sure give it another set of spins the next couple of weeks.

"Burnt Weeny..." is one of my favourite albums. Not in the least because it was one of the first Zappa records that I heard. Together with "Weasels...".
It must have been around 1980 or 1981, and I've been a Zappa-head ever since.

For "21 Burnt Weeny Sandwiches", Andrew Greenaway contacted artists that were already familiar with FZ's music.
Hans Annéllsson, Lee Rosevere, Doot!, Nigey Lennon, Michel Delville, DJ Goat, Zappatika, and many more all give their impression of Zappa's BWS.

This is superb. I love the idea, and I love the result even better.
Congrats to both Andrew Greenaway and to Cordelia Records for this superb record!

Essential listening for every Zappa freak.

http://idiotbastard.com/21xBWS.htm

Available from Cordelia Records:
http://www.cordeliarecords.co.uk/


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