United Mutations

Friday, January 31, 2025

G3 REUNION LIVE

The new G3 Reunion Live album is out.

- Deluxe 2 CD + 4 LP edition, includes a book
- 4 LP edition
- 2 CD edition

= Steve Vai, Eric Johnson, Joe Satriani

SATANIQUE SAMBA TRIO

The Satanic Samba Trio will be doing a concert at the AB in Brusssels on March 20, 2025.

https://www.abconcerts.be/nl/agenda/satanique-samba-trio/a10Qw000000l3goIAA

Satanique Samba Trio is an instrumental avant-garde quintet - not a trio, that is - formed in 2003 with the sole aim of desecrating the Brazilian musical heritage. So don't expect samba, forró, bossa nova or lambada as you know it. This quintet (sometimes sextet) from Brasília adds virulence, dissonance and provocation to traditional rhythms to turn them into something new and exciting. Their efforts to deconstruct the most persistent clichés of Brazilian music have so far yielded 14 records, the latest of which was ‘Só Bad’ (2023).

-- info: Zjakki Willems

200 MOTELS, THE MOVIE

Frank Zappa's 200 Motels, the movie, will be screened in Brussels !

At the NOVA Bioscoop.
(with French subtitles)

https://www.nova-cinema.org/prog/2025/200/nocturne/article/200-motels-30391

31.01.2025 > 21h30

28.02.2025 > 21h30

-- info: Zjakki Willems

BLACK FLOWER - KINETIC

Black Flower: Kinetic
(2025, cd, Belgium, sdban records)

The latest Black Flower album arrived yesterday.
"Kinetic".
mixing Ethio jazz and oriental with afrobeat and dub.

Beautiful !!

Out on CD and on LP (even on colored vinyl), and on Bandcamp.

The band has scheduled to album release concerts:

22 FEB - AB - Brussels (BE)
27 FEB - Privatclub - Berlin (DE)

Nathan Daems: alto & baritone sax, Bulgarian kaval, washint
Jon Birdsong: cornet
Karel Cuelenaere: organ, keyboard
Filip Vandebril: bass VI
Simon Segers: drums

Thursday, January 30, 2025

BANNED FROM UTOPIAN TOURDATES

The Banned From Utopia will be touring Europe in October.

Let's hope that these are just the first dates of a longer series...

05/10/2025 Zoetermeer, The Netherlands
11/10/2025 Schaffenhause, Switzerland
15/10/2025 Hamburg, Germany
16/10/2025 Copenhagen, Denmark
17/10/2025 Göteborg, Sweden
18/10/2025 "Zappa Union", Oslo, Norway
20/10/2025 Stockholm, Sweden

Check Andrew's https://www.zappanews.co.uk/diary for more Zappa-related concerts !

Monday, January 27, 2025

THE MONIKA ROSCHER BIG BAND

Monika Roscher Bigband - A Taste Of The Apocalypse (Official Video)

DIRTY SOUND MAGNET

Dirty Sound Magnet - 'The Tragedy Of Men'

(with a Zappa-esque wah wah guitar solo)

Dirty Sound Magnet - Insomnia (Official Video)

(space rock !!)

SISTAZ NOT MISTAZ - - - DINAH-MOE HUMM

An AI experiment by Andrew Greenaway who added:
And it took me seconds to do the music and the video: AI dragged its heels processing my input, but yes - crazy is right.

'Dinah-Moe Humm' performed by Sistaz Not Mistaz