"Don't Eat The Yellow Snow" on Belgian national TV.
Episode 2430 of Jeroen Meus' daily Cooking Show "Dagelijkse Kost" had Jeroen set in the snow (somewhere abroad).
It featured FZ's 'Don't Eat The Yellow Snow" quite prominently.
Last year, Fried Dähn (electric cello player, composer, professor and member of the Ensemble Modern when Zappa recorded The Yellow Shark) put together the Ensemble Blue Marlin to perform a concert in the "Zappa Spielt für Bach" series in Hamburg.
"Zappa Spielt für Bach" is a concert that takes place every year at the St. Katharinenkirche in Hamburg, Germany, a couple of days before the Zappanale festival starts.
This concert always is on a Wednesday and the festival starts on a Friday (not counting the Thursday warm-up party).
The "Zappa Spielt für Bach" concert series has an impressive list of participants : Florida-based Bogus Pomp, German rock band Sheik Yerbouti, Ensemble Ambrosius, Robert, Martin, Albert Wing, Inventionis Mater with Valentina Ciardelli, and Napoleon Murphy Brock.
July 2019, Fried Dähn (electric cello), Napoleon Murphy Brock (sax, flute, vocals), Chris Garcia (percussion and marimba) plus the Winnitzki / Lücker / Hughes jazz trio and 'visual piano player' Laurenz Theinert performed pieces by Frank Zappa, by Thelonious Monk, and by Fried Dähn,
Dutch music theater ensemble, Rosa Ensemble, released "Shortbread & Outcakes" in 2013 (as a limited 15th anniversary edition CD), collecting hits and outtakes.
The album has two outtakes that we know from "Selling Hoovers In Mojave", their Beefheart / Zappa tribute album from 2005: 'Blaat En Rook' (= 'Blabber 'n Smoke' (Don Van Vliet)) and 'Gimme A Pepsi 4' (Floris van Bergeijk). Both can be found in a shorter version on this album.
Rosa Ensemble with Hans Dagelet toured again with their Beefheart tribute show earlier this year.
They'll do two more shows in the next couple of months. One in Groningen and on in Tilburg. Both NL.
Here's "Shortbread & Outcakes":
Here's "Selling Hoovers In Mojave":
Both albums are still available on CD.
Check out the Rosa Ensemble website: https://rosaensemble.nl/
The Dutch Rosa Ensemble celebrated its 10th anniversary by re-recording a show that they had premiered with August Willemsen in 1998 and that was based on João Guimarães's "Grande Sertão: Veredas" book.
CD1 has the story narrated in Dutch by Hans Dagelet.
CD 2 is narrated in Portugese by Carlos Lagoeiro.
The latest issue of The Arf Dossier arrived last week.
Issue number 102 !!
Always fun to browse through as it mixes news with reports of recent happenings and pictures.
Comes with the membership of the Arf Society. In German (and some parts in English).
Chelsea Austin, James Singleton, Patrick S. Noonan and Charles Tobermann are Outer Park.
They recently released "1968, Slight Return" on which they perform a number of classic tunes from 1968.
From John Coltrane's 'Naima' over Stephen Stills' 'For What It's Worth' to Frank Zappa's 'King Kong'.
I enjoyed it.
Nice version of FZ's 'King Kong' !
"Anticantate" got performed by the Rosa Ensemble in 2009. Mixing voices and soundscapes, a narrator tells the story of the end of time... Or not?
In Dutch.
Quite experimental.
It got a CD release in 2013.
Here's a live fragment of one of the performances:
Just when you start looking back at 2019 and have to conclude that we've had a pretty impressive year music-wise, along comes Pierre Vervloesem to add another cherry to the cake.
"Wonderful Viruses" is available through Bandcamp.
