NAPOLEON MURPHY BROCK & ENSEMBLE MUSIKFABRIK - BAD DOBERAN & ELSEWHERE

• Napoleon Murphy Brock & Ensemble Musikfabrik: Bad Doberan & Elsewhere
      (2023, cd, Germany, yatakrecords)

Last year, at the St. Katharinenconcert, I bought a copy of the promotional EP that Ralph Kessler and Ali N. Askin were working on.
The concert that I attended was by Napoleon Murphy Brock and Mats Öberg. Wonderful concert. In the meantime, it got released in the "Zappa Spielt Für Bach" series.
The EP that I bought, however, was from a collaboration between Napoleon Murphy Brock and the Ensemble Musikfabrik. As a result, the evening had two highlights: A wonderful concert and a beautiful CD from an upcoming project.

We're one year later now, and the actual album is out. Or it will be out shortly.
Subtitled “Napoleon Murphy Brock & Ensemble Musikfabrik Play The Music Of Frank Zappa”, this album got recorded at Zappanale on July 21, 2019.
The Ensemble Musikfabrik, directed by Dirk Rothbrust featured Frank Wingold among others, a name that one might remember from the Underkarl band.

The album got mixed by Ali N. Askin (who also did the orchestration, the arrangements and the production), mastered by Ralph Kessler (who also co-produced) and Jonas Brommer, and displays artwork by Cal Schenkel.

Do I need to say more?
This is an excellent Frank Zappa tribute album.
I saw this concert at Zappanale in 2019 and I don't know how they did it, but the sound is way much better than I remember it.

An essential release for every Zappa fan.

Released on Ali N. Askin’s YatakRecords label.
Should be available soon  from YatakRecords or from the MusikFabrik website.

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