KILLING SPREE

When a band is announced to perform at Charly's "Freakshow In Concert" series, you better check them out.

Killing Spree will be performing at Freakshow In Concert, January 19, 2025, in Würzburg, DE, at 16h30 !

• Matthieu Metzger (saxophones & white devil talkbox)
• Grégoire Galichet (drums)

FYI, Matthieu Metzger was part of the Nasal Retentive Orchestra !!

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CHATO SEGERER UPDATE

Chato Segerer just announced "Never Odd Or Even Vol. 1", his new album.

It's already available for pre-order.

AN AFTERNOON OF PSYCHEDELIC MUSIC IN LONDON, UK

with
Z Machine
The C Sides Project
Sendelica

 

STICK MEN TO TOUR ITALY

A message from the MoonJune Records label:

Stick Men in Italy!

Short but sweet theater tour of Stick Men in Italy, that will be all in Italy and Europe this year, more shows in the USA in the Summer.

• March 16 - Giulianova, TE (Palazzo Kursaal)
• March 19 - Carrara, MS (Teatro Animosi)
• March 20 - Vicchio del Mugello, FI (Teatro Ghiotto)
• March 21 - Vicenza, VI (Teatro Comunale)
• March 22 - Genova, GE (Teatro Verdi)
• March 23 - Bergamo, BG (Teatro Sociale)

Tony Levin - Chapman Stick
Markus Reuter - Touch Guitar
Pat Mastelotto - drums

INTERVIEW WITH MARC-ANDRE HAMELIN

Interview with Marc-André Hamelin
on 

https://moma.cymru/interview-with-marc-andre-hamelin-2/

I enjoy how you describe yourself as willing to listen to anything that shows a little imagination. I think that’s wonderful criteria to have when listening to any music. 

Yes, well, I would say, for example, I have been a fan of Frank Zappa for a long time, almost 40 years. I think I have heard almost everything he’s ever done – I don’t listen to it as much anymore, but still I am very fond of his music.

 

MARC-ANDRE HAMELIN WILL BE PERFORMING FRANK ZAPPA'S 'RUTH IS SLEEPING' IN CONCERT NEXT APRIL

As part of the "Keys To Music" festival,

April 4, 2025, Nijmegen, NL

Marc-André Hamelin will be performing

• Haydn Sonata in D major Hob.XVI:37
• Frank Zappa Ruth Is Sleeping
• Stefan Wolpe Passacaglia
• John Oswald TIP

• Nikolai Medtner Improvisation in B flat minor (in variation form) op.31 no.1
• Nikolai Medtner Danza festiva, op.38 no.3
• Rachmaninoff Etude-Tableau op.39 no.5
• Rachmaninoff 2nd sonata, op.36 (1931 version)

solo piano.

https://keystomusic.nl/voorstelling/van-haydn-tot-zappa/

MARC-ANDRE HAMELIN WILL BE PERFORMING FRANK ZAPPA'S 'RUTH IS SLEEPING' IN CONCERT NEXT JUNE

Saturday, June 14, 2025 - 19h00

at the Gebläsehalle, Landschaftspark Nord, Duisburg, DE 

Marc-André Hamelin

will be performing

• Joseph Haydn - Sonate in D-Dur, Hob.XVI:37
• Stefan Wolpe - Passacaglia
• John Oswald - TIP
• Frank Zappa - Ruth Is Sleeping
• Ludwig van Beethoven - Sonate in C-Dur, Op. 3 Nr. 3
• Nikolai Medtner - Improvisation in B-Dur
• Nikolai Medtner - Danza festiva
• Sergei Rachmaninoff - Etude-Tableau, Sonate Nr. 2., Op. 36

Solo piano

As part of the Klavierfestival.

https://www.klavierfestival.de/konzerte/marc-andre-hamelin-2025/

-- info: Hans-Peter Schmidt

THE LOOP PERCUSSION DUO

The Loop Percussion Duo will be incorporating a Frank Zappa tribute in their set on January 25.
The concert will take place at De Zille in Ham, BE.

Tickets can be reserved through the address on below flyer.

-- info: Dirk Verschaeve

WALTER FRANCO

Brazilian singer, guitarist and composer Walter Franco released his "Ou Não" album in 1973.

The final track on the album, 'Cabeça', sounds a lot like Frank Zappa's 'Help, I'm A Rock'.

Am I wrong?

-- info: Zjakki Willems

JETHRO TULL - THE STRING QUARTETS

• Jethro Tull: The String Quartets
      (2017, cd, Europe, bmg)

I'm not familiar enough with the music of Jethro Tull to hum along all of the pieces on this excellent album, but that does not mean that I don't like it.
Quite the contrary, actually.

"The String Quartets" is a beautiful collection of pieces, performed by The Carducci Quartet, with the participation of Ian Anderson himself.