Each album will be released as a blu-ray + 2CD set (and at least one of the two also as a 4 LP set).
The first album got recorded at Yoshi's on Friday 29/09/2006 and the second on Saturday 30/09/2006.
Featuring Allan Holdsworth plus Alan Pasqua, Jimmy Haslip, and Chad Wackerman !
Klanggalerie on Bandcamp:
Hardy Fox was the primary composer of The Residents. He created an incredible body of work, using all kinds of names other than The Residents, amongst them Combo De Mechanio, Sonidas De La Noche, Dead Eye Dick, Charles Bobuck or Black Tar And The Cry Babies. Hardy first stopped touring with The Residents due to health issues. Soon afterwards, he left the group completely to concentrate on his solo work. After several albums as Charles Bobuck (later only Bobuck), the name given to him when still a member of The Residents, he later dropped all pseudonyms to work as Hardy Fox. His first self-titled solo recording was an album full of minimal love songs, a portrait of the young Hardy Fox. The second, "Nachtzug" was about his last days touring with The Residents. It was followed by "Rilla Contemplates Love", a concept album about the thoughts and feelings of a gorilla. A few days before his untimely passing, Hardy sent this album to us - his last ever full album (we have more material left that needs to see the light of day), Dead Creature. An absolutely essential item for all Residents and Hardy Fox fans with artwork that Hardy himself made for the CD!
French collective Mentat Routage performed at Zappanale last month as the Brothers Of Dimension with Médéric Collignon as special guest.
The band released one eponymous album in 2010.
The ever-proactive former Hawkwind bassist Alan Davey is back with his Hawkwind-adjacent space rock vehicle, Hawkestrel, delivering a stellar sonic trip titled "Cover Ya Tracks".
Released via Cleopatra Records, this 11-track collection shifts the focus heavily onto cosmic cover versions and jaw-dropping archival guest performances, crafting an alternate-dimension tribute to both space rock royalty and classic rock heavyweights.
The roster of guest musicians assembled here reads like a dream lineup from the outer edges of the universe. Alan Davey masterfully weaves historic and newly arranged tracks, integrating contributions from legendary, dearly departed Hawkwind alumni alongside unexpected icons.
There is the celebration of Hawkwind with renditions of 'Hall of The Mountain Grill' and 'Brainstorm', but where "Cover Ya Tracks" truly surprises, is in its bold reimaginings of classic rock songs.
Check it out at Bandcamp.
Also available on CD and on LP.
-- info: Danny Mathys
"Kaleidiosonic"
by John Tabacco
John adds:
Blues, R&B, Pop Rock, Soft Quirky Ballads, Latin, Fusion and Musical Theater can be found on this collection. Very much a Clam Radio playlist. In other worlds... All over the place!
