Wednesday, November 20, 2024

SLIVOVITZ - LIVER

  • Slivovitz: Liver
        (2017, cd, USA, moonjune records)
Italian ensemble Slivovitz recorded "Liver" in 2016.
The album got released on the MoonJune Records label in 2017.

Recorded live, which might be the reference for the title?
Anyway, modern jazz.

I don't just like this. I love it.
They sound like a little big band !
  • DEREK  DI PERRI harmonica
  • MARCELLO  GIANNINI guitars
  • VINCENZO  LAMAGNA bass
  • SALVATORE  RAINONE drums
  • CIRO  RICCARDI trumpet
  • PIETRO  SANTANGELO tenor saxophone
  • RICCARDO  VILLARI electric violin

MAHOGANY FROG - FAUST

  • Mahogany Frog: Faust
        (2022, cd, --, moonjune records)
I recently expanded my Mahogany Frog album collection with "Faust'.
Released in 2022 by the MoonJune Records label, "Faust"

Beautiful !!

Mahogany Frog’s Faust is an original score set to the eponymous 1926 German silent film. Directed by F. W. Murnau, Faust is widely regarded to be among the greatest films of the silent era. It tells the classic legend of fate and temptation that dates back centuries. In this, their latest offering, Mahogany Frog brings together their collective experience in composition, experimentation, electronics, intense rock & roll, and searing fuzz guitar. Together they weave a dark and diverse score around Faust’s brooding tale of corruption, devastation and redemption.

The music for Faust was initially written and rehearsed over the span of three months, culminating in a premier performance at the Roxy Theatre, a historic atmospheric cinema in Saskatoon. Three more performances in Edmonton, Calgary, and Winnipeg followed. Accompanying the band on this tour was audio engineer Grant Trippel, who later recorded the studio sessions at EDR in February of 2020.

In the interim, Mahogany Frog worked on their seventh studio record Mahogany Frog In The Electric Universe. Following work on …Electric Universe, the live recordings were revisited and work on Faust began anew. Whereas …Electric Universe was tightly produced, polished and positive; Faust was envisioned as being dark, raw and emotional. Over the course of 12 months, sessions at four different studios yielded the raw materials for a dense and maximalist sonic tapestry. Final editing, mixing and mastering was completed over the next 3 months, first to picture and then for LP.

The mood of Faust is varied and complex. There are many faces of Mahogany Frog. Harsh noise, electronic drones, and pulsing textures flow in and out of dark and heavy, guitar-driven riffage. Soothing washes of melodic synth-pop flow through syrupy, languid organs only to be obliterated by the shrieks of the damned and the devil himself.


NDR BIGBAND MEETS ENSEMBLE MODERN FESTIVAL IN HAMURG, DE, NEXT APRIL

NDR Bigband meets Ensemble Modern Festival

https://www.ndr.de/orchester_chor/bigband/NDR-Bigband-meets-Ensemble-Modern-drittes-Konzert,ensemblemodern138.html

Fr, 25.04.2025 | 20 Uhr - Hamburg, Rolf-Liebermann-Studio (Oberstraße 120)

"#Frisch poliert"

Ensemble Modern
Jonathan Stockhammer (cond) -  Ensemble Modern
Geir Lysne (cond) - NDR Bigband

FRANK ZAPPA - Hot Licks (And Funny Smells), Colin Towns (arr)
IANNIS XENAKIS - "Anaktoria"
ANTON WEBERN - Sinfonie op. 21
EDGARD VARÈSE - "Octandre"
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN -"Gesang der Jünglinge"

Sa, 26.04.2025 | 20 Uhr - Hamburg, Rolf-Liebermann-Studio (Oberstraße 120)

"#Uraufgeführt"

Ensemble Modern
NDR Bigband
Jonathan Stockhammer (cond)

Werke von CARLA KIHLSTEDT, ALEX PAXTON, ALI N. ASKIN

So, 27.04.2025 | 20 Uhr - Hamburg, Rolf-Liebermann-Studio (Oberstraße 120)

"#ad hoc"

Ensemble Modern
NDR Bigband

DWEEZIL ZAPPA & THE METROPOLE ORKEST TO APPEAR AT THE BRIDGE FESTIVAL ON JUNE 1, 2025

Dweezil Zappa will be performing with the Metropole Orkest as part of the Bridge Guitar Festival in Eindhoven, NL, on June 1, 2025.


MOON ZAPPA - EARTH TO MOON - - - THE BOOKS

As far as I know, three editions of Moon's book have been published:

The US edition by  DEYST / Day Street Books;
The UK edition by White Rabbit Books;
The German edition by Heyne Verlag.

I wonder if other translations will follow.


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MOON ZAPPA - EARTH TO MOON, A MEMOIR

Did I mention that Moon Zappa's "Earth To Moon" audio book was also released as an mp3-CD album? 
Read by Moon.


MATT DEMELLO - THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE NOWHERE: TEN YEARS LATER

Matt DeMello just released "There's No Place Like Nowhere: Ten Years Later", a remastered version of his debut album / demo.
Check out the final six tracks. These are the remastered versions.


Tuesday, November 19, 2024

MAGMA CONCERT IN BRUSSELS ON MARCH 5, 2024

Magma, the French cult rock band, is coming to the Royal Circus in Brussels, BE, on 5 March.

Progressive rock band Magma will be on stage at the Royal Circus in Brussels on Wednesday 5 March. Since their inception in 1969, the French band has achieved cult status worldwide. After more than five decades, they continue to impress with adventurous live performances.


CO DE KLOET TALKS ABOUT JOE'S GARAGE ON BELGIAN NATIONAL RADIO

Dutch radio show host and producer Co de Kloet discussed Frank Zappa's "Joe's Garage" on Belgian national radio today, during the "Classic Stories" radio show.

https://www.vrt.be/vrtmax/luister/radio/c/classic-stories~11-74/classic-stories~11-28650-0/fragment~d34be662-760e-4f4e-a64d-dcd96be65120/ 


ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE - STARLESS AND BIBLE BLACK SABBATH

  • acid mothers temple: starless and bible black sabbath
        (2024, download, --, bandcamp)
Kawabata Makoto's Acid Mothers Temple released "Starless and Bible Black Sabbath" in 2006.
A CD release with two tracks: the 34-minute psychedelic trip called 'Starless And Bible Black Sabbath', plus the spacy 6-minute 'Woman From Hell'.

Earlier this month, the album got rereleased on vinyl. Limited editions on green and splatter vinyl.
Two tracks: 'Starless And Bible Black Sabbath (Part 1) / Woman From Hell' on side A, and 'Starless And Bible Black Sabbath (Part 2)' on side B.

The digital download Bandcamp version offers the two tracks as three separate, additional tracks: 'Part 1', 'Part 2', and 'Woman From Hell'.
Does that imply that 'Part 2' is just repeated? Well, maybe. I haven't figured that out yet.

Fun?
Sure !!  Love it.


-- info: Philippe Lamoot