RICK BEATO INVITES TONY LEVIN

18 minutes into the interview Tony talks about playing in a band with Don Preston !!
Another excellent interview by Rick Beato.

A POIL UEDA UPDATE

PoiL Ueda in concert

• 14.09 Jazz Off (COLMAR – FR)
• 20.09 (festival) – Le Périscope - Musiques Innovantes (LYON – FR)
• 21.09 La fraternelle / Maison du Peuple (SAINT-CLAUDE – FR)
• 26.09 Le Singe (BIENNE – CH)
• 27.09 Freakshow.Artrock.Festival (WURZBURG – DE)
• 28.09 House of Music Berlin (BERLIN – DE)

DON PRESTON TOUR DATES

Don Preston will also play at De Bosuil in Weert, NL.
October 2, 2024.
sharing the bill with Frank Zappa tribute band The Others Of Invention.

-- info : Philippe Lamoot

For more dates, check Andrew's Diary
https://www.zappanews.co.uk/

THE ELECTRIC LADY BIG BAND

Denny Ilett's Electric Lady Big Band.

= a UK Big Band that performs the music of Jimi Hendrix (or what did you expect?)

Here's an interesting read of how the band came about:
https://www.ronniescotts.co.uk/find-a-show/denny-iletts-electric-lady-big-band-play-jimi-hendrix

And here's the album (from a couple of years ago) :
My favorite being 'Crosstown Traffic'.

CONCERTS AND MORE CONCERTS

Beat, Don Preston, Dweezil Zappa, The Furious Bongos, FidoPlaysZappa, Pygmy Twylyte, and more concert dates in Andrew's indispensable https://www.zappanews.co.uk/diary.

Wowie zowie !!

SZILARD MEZEI

The last couple of weeks, I have received some extraordinary music from Szilard Mezei, a Serbian composer and violinist (Serbian, but with an Hungarian cultural heritage).. 

http://www.szilardmezei.net/?i=1

Mixing folk and contemporary classical music, and working with several ensembles, Szilard Mezei's musical world is quite the discovery. (thanks, Danny !)

One of his more recent albums "Nem F​ü​st​ö​l a Zentaji Gy​á​r K​é​m​é​nye" features the Szilard Mezei Tul A Tiszan Innen Ensemble.
Released on the Slam Productions record label on CD and through Bandcamp,
"Nem F​ü​st​ö​l a Zentaji Gy​á​r K​é​m​é​nye" is a great introduction to Szilard Mezei's work.

Check it out !

AHLEUCHATISTAS - EXPANSION

Ahleuchatistas
"Expansion"

Ahleuchatistas is an avant-rock trio that formed in 2002. They play instrumental music that is meticulously thru-composed and relentlessly paced from beginning to end, morphing through perpetually evolving subtle variations of unfolding poly-tonal melodies that are simultaneously angular and organic.

Instrumental, post-Beefheart, avant-technical, improv-core, math-metal, art-damage, punk-rock power trio from Asheville, NC

The latest Ahleuchatistas release features main man Shane Parish on guitar, with Trevor Dunn on bass, and Danny Piechocki on drums.

Recommended listening !!

EUGENE CHADBOURNE UPDATE

To those that subscribed to his Head Of Books project, Eugene Chadbourne sends out banjo / guitar improvisations on a daily basis.

The latest one (Sept 2, 2024) was entitled 'Hurricane Mother of Space Cadet Princess'.
Somehow I link this to Moon Zappa's book...

Unrelated, here 'One More Road To Cross':

https://youtube.com/shorts/hrPJvix3FeE?si=AXjZj6hN5RLcqkro

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD

• King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard: Fishing For Fishies
      (2019, cd, --, flightless) – 2019-04-26
      (2019, lp, --, flightless / ato)
      (2019, download / streaming, --, --)

After having released five albums in 2017, after which the band toured extensively.
Their next release, "Fishing For Fishies", got released in 2019. It was their fourteenth album.

Less challenging and less surprising as their previous releases, the not so secret word for "Fishing For Fishies" is Boogie.

ROCKTAILS WITH SPECIAL GUEST DIVA ZAPPA

Rocktails with Ahmet Zappa, with special guest Diva Zappa.