ALAN JENKINS AND THE KETTERING VAMPIRES - YOUR BEST IDEAS

New release by Alan Jenkins And The Kettering Vampires: "You Best Ideas".

A NEWSFLASH FROM CORDELIA RECORDS

“Following the release of "Komm, gib mir deine Hand" and "Sie liebt dich" in 1964 EMI made a decision that it was unnecessary to release further German translations of Beatles' recordings. The band however were keen to pursue the idea and continued to record German versions of their songs as late as the White Album sessions in 1968. The German version of the Sgt. Pepper album - Die Gefreiter Pfeffer Kontaktbörse Band - is particularly interesting. Immediately after the conclusion of the Sgt. Pepper sessions at Abbey Road in April 1967 George Martin and the Beatles moved their base of operations to the Westdeutscher Rundfunk electronic-music studio in Cologne where they worked closely with Karlheinz Stockhausen on a completely new recording of the album. German musicians involved in the project included Holger Czukay and Irmin Schmidt who would go on to form the band Can the following year.”

Alan Jenkins

 

SPANNER BIG BAND

The Spanner Big Band included FZ's 'Waka/Jawaka' on their latest album, "A Load Of Old Toot!!"?
An excellent album, if I may say so.
Out on Bandcamp for download / streaming, but also on CD.

Reason enough to check out the two previous albums:
"Live At The Gunners" and "Still Alive At The Gunners".
Both CDs arrived last week (after customs checked the package).
Superb artwork and great music.

• Spanner Big Band: Live At The Gunner
      (2016, download / streaming, --, bandcamp)
      (2016, cd, UK, private release)

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• Spanner Big Band: Still Alive At The Gunners
      (2019, download / streaming, --, bandcamp)
      (2019, cd, UK, private release)

MEN & VOLTS 1987 LP RE-RELEASED ON BANDCAMP

 "The Mule", Men & Volts' 4th album has been re-released through Bandcamp.

UK'S "DANGER MONEY" RE-RELEASED

 UK's "Danger Money" album is getting a re-issue on coloured vinyl.

Featuring Eddie Jobson, John Wetton & Terry Bozzio.

GOZORTENPLAT PLAYS THE MUSIC OF FRANK ZAPPA

FRANK ZAPPA - NONCONFORMISM AND EXPERIMENTATION

• John Walsh: Nonconformism and Experimentation
      (2024, book, --, private release)

Another book on Frank Zappa.
It's actually a collection of short essays.
At first sight, I liked the subjects that this book touched upon: "controversial relationship with the media", "battles for freedom of expression", "politics and critical thinking", "innovation in music writing", ...

I like the idea of collecting essays on various subjecs, but, unfortunately, there too many mistakes in this book.

I started with the chapter on "Collaborations with Symphony Orchestras", where "Zappa In New York" is given as an example ;

The same chapter mentions: In 1984, Zappa collaborated with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra for a series of concerts in Europe.

Probably written by some sort of AI.
Rubbish.

ANOTHER FRANK ZAPPA RADIO SHOW ALBUM ANNOUNCED

Another Frank Zappa radio show album has been announced.
"Greatest Hits Live".
LP on transparent yellow vinyl.

1. MONTANA
2. DONT EAT THE YELLOW SNOW/NANOOK RUBS IT/ST. ALFONZOS PANCAKE
 BREAKFAST/FATHER O'BLIVION
3. INCA ROADS
4. MUFFIN MAN
5. JOE'S GARAGE
6. COSMIK DEBRIS
7. WHO ARE THE BRAIN POLICE?
8. DANCIN' FOOL
9. HUNGRY FREAKS, DADDY
10. ZOOT ALLURES

FRANK ZAPPA - CHEAPER THAN CHEEP

The distribution of "Cheaper Than Cheep" to the regular shops has been delayed, but pre-orders at Zappa dot com or Universal-linked web-shops are being delivered at this very moment.

My copies haven't arrived yet, but I was rather pleased with the digital download that I received yesterday.

Frank Zappa - George Duke - Tom Fowler - Chester Thompson - Napoleon Murphy Brock - Jeff Simmons - Ruth Underwood

1-01. “Cheaper Than Cheep”
1-02. Cosmik Debris
1-03. Band Introductions
1-04. RDNZL
1-05. Village Of The Sun
1-06. Montana
1-07. Duke Goes Out
1-08. Inca Roads
1-09. “Get Down Simmons”
1-10. Penguin In Bondage
1-11. T’Mershi Duween
1-12. The Dog Breath Variations
1-13. Uncle Meat

2-01. How Could I Be Such A Fool
2-02. I’m Not Satisfied
2-03. Wowie Zowie
2-04. I Don’t Even Care
2-05. Let’s Make The Water Turn Black
2-06. Dupree’s Paradise Introduction
2-07. Dupree’s Paradise
2-08. Oh No
2-09. Son Of Orange County
2-10. More Trouble Every Day
2-11. Apostrophe(’)
2-12. Camarillo Brillo

Essential !!
If you haven't ordered it yet, don't hesitate. I'm only halfway through the first part and I can already tell you that this is an amazing album.

It doesn't get any better than this...

LE PINGOUIN LIGOTÉ

I don't know much about French Frank Zappa fanzine Le Pingouin Ligoté.
Issued by Les Fils de l'Invention, quite a number of years ago.
Fun stuff.
Quite happy with this recent find.
The missing issues (?) are on my want-list.

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