Tuesday, October 8, 2013

ANOTHER SUN RA REISSUE

Announced earlier this year, "The Futuristic Sounds Of Sun Ra" album got rereleased on vinyl by Poppydisc about two months ago.
An exact reproductionof the original album.

-- info: Danny Mathys

Monday, October 7, 2013

A GENE PRITSKER UPDATE - OCTOBER 2013

a message from Gene Pritsker

Hi all

It's been a busy start to the season. Composers Concordance jumped into it with a great fundraiser/party at MC gallery and then immediately our first concert - at BWAC.

We have many concerts planned for the this year - including our big festival 'Timbre Tantrums' and other concerts being planned now, including a big one at the 92nd St. Y - 'Eclectic Bands/Eclectic Dance' in March.

NEXT concert is: C&C PIANO FACTORY on Oct. 13th in partnership with Composers Collaborative inc.

On Thursday, October 10th my interview with The Brothers Balliett on WQXR's - Q2 station

Listen at 3pm & 8PM here: http://www.wqxr.org/#!/programs/balliett/ - It was a really fun interview with Doug and Brad and I got to play a bunch of my music for them and music of my colleagues.

I will be starting work orchestrating a new Netflix series directed by the the Wachowski's (The Matrix Trilogy, Speed Racer) next month called 'Sense 8' with music by Heil, Klimek and Tykwer. My Cloud Atlas Symphony will be performed around the world by various orchestras in Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, London (proms), Copenhagen, Leipzig. Sound Liberation performed a great benefit show for one of our own - Dave Gotay Fights Evil Cancer - We have finished our new album 'Days' and will be releasing it in Jan. on Composers Concordance Records -

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UPCOMING & RECENT CONCERTS:

Oct.

10/13

Composers Concordance and Composers Collaborative present 'C&C piano factory' Gene's 'Picasso's Blues' and 'Tactic II' will be performed

10/11

Ensemble Kontraste Performs my piano concerto 'Reinventions' and 2 arrangements of Frank Zappa's music in Nuremberg, Germany

Nov.

11/12

CompCord Ensemble performs at the Cutting Room. Gene will have a new septet for this show featuring the poetry of Jacob Miller.

11/28

Lisa Kronsteiner (bass clarinet) Thomas Frey (bass flute) Matthias Kronsteiner (bassoon) will premiere 'Devolution' as part of their 'WE and US' concert at the 'music im arum' series in Linz, Austria

- Starting work orchestrating a new Netflix series directed by the Wachowskis next month called 'Sense 8'

with music by Heil, Klimek and Tykwer

Sunday, October 6, 2013

STEVE VAI DVD BOOTLEG

steve vai: the aching hunger 11 - holland 2005
(20??, dvd-bootleg, ??, ??)

I recently came across this factory pressed Steve Vai bootleg. It's a recording of the two Dutch TV-shows from December 2005, showing "Aching Hunger Phase II" from the July 2005 concerts.
The '11' in the title instead of "II" shows just how much of a fan produced this disc...

FIRST MU ALBUM REISSUED BY GUERSSEN RECORDS

Mu's first and eponymous album will be reissued on the Spanish Guerssen Records label.

Mu is Merrell Fankhauser and Jeff Cotton (of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band).
This first album got released in 1971.

Here's a snippet from 1974.

Saturday, October 5, 2013

A couple of years ago, Italian jouranlist Michele Pizzi wrote a 500-page book on Frank Zappa, entitled "Frank Zappa - For President! - Testi Commentati'.
The book is in Italian. It got published by Arcana Edizioni.

I added the cover to the Frank Zappa "Books" section earlier today.

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

SUN RA PICTURES

Go here: http://lee-santa.artistwebsites.com/art/all/sun+ra+at+the+bottom+line+1976/all & you'll see some new stuff from my 1976 Bottom Line NYC photo shoot that I had forgotten about. I uploaded 27 images of which 9 or 10 had been uploaded before into the Sun Ra Gallery, so at least 17 images have not been seen before. Some of 'em are a little outta focus which is probably why I forgot about 'em.

ED PALERMO IN CONCERT 2013 10 05 AT THE FALCON

a message from Ed Palermo:

THIS SATURDAY AT THE FALCON
2013 10 05

More Zappa than you or I can handle in one night. But we're doing it anyway!

As always, anybody who lives too far from the Falcon who would like to know what's in store, let me know and I'll gladly send you my set list.

http://www.liveatthefalcon.com/

Hope to see you there!

MORGAN AGREN DOCUMENTARY IS READY

As of today, a digital version of Morgan Ågren's Conundrum (A Percussive Misadventure) has been released through Vimeo On Demand.

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/morgan

You can rent it or buy it there for immediate streaming or download. (NOTE: It does NOT include the bonus features included on the DVD version.)

SO: we have also started taking orders for the DVD on MutantMall.com. However, the DVDs are still being pressed and should arrive in 2 weeks. Still, you can place your order any time.

DWALMACAT 533

This week, at Dwalmacat

http://www.mixcloud.com/Dwalmacat/dwalmacat-533/

HERMINE – Blue angel
MÖEBIUS, PLANK & NEUMEIER – Pitch control
BUFFALO DAUGHTER – Volcanic girl
KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS – LSDC
BLAH BLAH BLAH – Travelling on the road again
BLUTCH – The Himalayan Alphs / Blutch go home / Electric socks
THE WAITRESSES – I know what boys like
RANDY GREIF – A handsome pig
THE GRIEF – Nix
FENCE – The bee song (Vermin twins hive jive remix)
GEECHIE WILEY – Last kind word blues
TOMMY McCOOK – Tunnel one
BOREDOMS – Super old
LAVVI EBBEL – Le cafard