POIL

French band PoiL is offering sets of their vinyl albums on bandcamp.
Quite the deal !

https://poil.bandcamp.com/album/poil-ueda?

MIKE KENEALLY - DOG (DELUXE BANDCAMP EDITION°

Mike Keneally has just release a deluxe version of "Dog" on his Bandcamp page.

Mike added:
Goodness gracious, there’s more! This is not your standard Dog! This is Dog (Deluxe Bandcamp Edition), which has been fortified with 34 additional tracks. THIRTY-FOUR. A bunch of these tracks are audio from the DVD that came with the Dog Special Edition CD/DVD set (a limited edition which is now out of print). Six of the tracks are from a live show at Victor’s in San Diego, and six were played live in the living room of Chatfield Manor.

There is also documentary audio, from the Dog studio sessions, of me doing a vocal on the blistering, unreleased 18-second-long punk-metal workout “Lizard Tongue” (while the rest of the band cracks up in the control room). There are demos of Dog material, including full-band early versions recorded at a studio in Santa Monica, and a recording of “Splane” made in a hotel room during a Taylor Guitars clinic tour. There’s DVD menu music, and a 2 and ½ minute edit-collage of Dog songs that featured on keneally.com at the time of the album’s release.

Finally there’s a lengthy interview, featuring Claudia Russell of San Diego’s Jazz 88.3 FM asking me a bunch of excellent and very specific questions about the songs on the album. Re-listening to that interview today gave me a very enlightening perspective on my mindset at the time – in retrospect I’ve come to think of Dog as a dark album, thickly colored by my feelings in the aftermath of the 2003 Baghdad invasion, but in listening to myself talking about it all at the time, I realize there was a lot more lightness in my intentions. Enough of this dimestore psychology! My point here is, there is much exciting bonus listening for you in this Dog (Deluxe Bandcamp Edition).
https://mikekeneallymusic.bandcamp.com/album/dog-deluxe-bandcamp-edition?

THE ZAPPA FORUM WILL BE SHUTTING DOWN IN JULY

The Zappa Forum will be shutting down next Friday, July 15 as we plan for a new and improved home. Thank you for your understanding. We’ll see you soon!

https://www.zappa.com/zappa-forum-will-be-shutting-down-next-friday-july-15-we-plan-new-and-improved-home-thank-you/

(Andrew pointed out that this was a message from over a year ago...)

FRANK ZAPPA - TRATTO DAL FILMATO "A TOKEN OF HIS EXTREME"

• frank zappa: tratto dal filmato "a token of his extreme"
      (2007, dvd, italy, it-why)

Before the official release of "A Token Of His Extreme", the 1974 KCET Studio video recording got released by the Zappa Family Trust on the Eagle Vision label in 2013, a couple of bootleg DVD's had already surfaced.
"Tratto Dal Filmato "A Token Of His Extreme" got released in 2007.
Not the best quality, but we were happy when it got released at the time...

JOHN ZORN / MASADA STRING TRIO - AZAZEL - BOOK OF ANGELS VOLUME 2

• john zorn / masada string quartet: azazel - book of angels volume 2
      (2005, cd, usa, tzadik)

Diving deeper into John Zorn's immense catalogue, I listened to the Masada String Quartet's recording of "Azazel - Book Of Angels Volume 2" from 2005.
I don't have a clue on how or where it fits in John Zorn's catalogue so I guess I have a bit of reading to do to figure this all out, but this album sounds great.

Here's the Masada String Quartet in concert :

THE MUSIC ACROSS RADIO SHOW WILL BE DOING A THIRD SPECIAL ON ZAPPANALE 2022

Info from Gernot Friedbacher from the Music Across radio show

From 18 to 21 July 2022, Zappanale #31 took place again live in Bad Doberan on the Baltic Sea after a 3-year break due to Corona.
It was a great festival that seamlessly picked up where it had left us in 2019, as if time had stopped in those 3 years.
Everybody was happy to meet old friends again and to experience great live music together.
"Music Across" has once again spoken to many artists in 2022, who will have their say in a whole series of "Music Across" broadcasts.
This third Zappanale 2022 special features Tante Tofu, the Yasi Hofer Trio, Klangfusion, bEND, the Miserable Husos, Run Logan Run and Potential.
With Tante Tofu's play "On the day Bach met Frank Zappa", the radio show also ties in directly with the previous show that got aired the 3rd of April 2022, which was dedicated to the concert "Zappa plays for Bach" with Mats Öberg and Napoleon Murphy Brock in the main church of St. Katharinen in Hamburg.

 Additional info: 
https://o94.at/programm/sendereihen/music-across/

Listen later:
https://cba.fro.at/podcast/music-across

NEW ALBUM BY MATS ÖBERG

"Visa fr​å​n Inner​ö​ra"
by Mats Öberg

JIMMY ÅGREN - BELGIAN BLUES

• Jimmy Ågren: Guitar
• Rolf Hedqvist: Bass
• Morgan Ågren: Drums

recorded live 21/5-22 Umeå Sweden

PIERRE VERVLOESEM & TEUN VERBRUGGEN - CHICXULUB

Heavy stuff from Pierre Vervloesem and Teun Verbruggen.

Guitar and drums.
Two long tracks.

It does indeed sound like the end of the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater

Check it out !

THE AMM ALL STARS - PLAY LUMPY GRAVY

Check it out over at Andrew's web shop:
https://idiotbastard.onlineweb.shop/product/amm-all-stars-play-lumpy-gravy?

In 2019, Ben Watson's AMM All-Stars played Lumpy Gravy at Zappanale #30. Graham Davis (Gabba Zappa Hey!) was arranger and band leader, and further "edited, fluffed up and prodded about" the dried muffin remnants for CD release.