Saturday, April 1, 2023

POIL UEDA - POIL UEDA

I'll say it again :
The new Poil Ueda album is fan-tas-tic.

In the meantime, the Poil Ueda tour is ready for another round :

12.04 Momentum (ODENSE - DK)
13.04 Victoria (MALMÖ - SE)
14.04 Turkis (AARHUS - DK)
15.04 Rilksscenen (OSLO - NO)
17.04 Rahuset (COPENHAGEN - DK)
20.04 Tor 9 (BREMEN - DE)
21.04 Roadburn festival (TILBURG - NL)
29.04 April Jazz (ESPOO - FI)

PROGDREAMS X

The 10th edition of the ProgDreams Festival will take place 7, 8 and 9 April 2023.

FRIDAY
19:00 Doors open
20:00 - 21:30 Supersister Projekt
22:00 - 23:30 Lazuli

SATURDAY
14:30 Doors open
15:30 - 16:15 For Absent Friends
16:30 - 17:15 Ebony Buckle
18:30 - 19:45 Karfagen & Sunchild (Antony Kalugin)
20:15 - 21:30 Millenium
22:00 - 23:30 Solstice

SUNDAY
14:30 Doors open
15:00 - 16:00 Yuval Ron
16:30 - 17:30 Kyros
18:45 - 19:45 Ranestrane
20:15 - 21:15 Galaxy
21:45 - 23:15 Icefish


YUVAL RON TOURDATES

Yuval Ron Trio Tourdates





ZAPPA EVERY DAY

  • Zappa Every Day - A Fanzine Dedicated To The Music Of Frank Zappa
    by Flake
        (2023, book, --, floppo records)
I don't listen to Uncle Frank's music every day. There's too much other stuff to listen to and to enjoy.
And when I listen to FZ's music, it's often performed by other musicians or bands, as it's all part of the ongoing Others Of Invention project.
When I do consume some original Zappa Music, it's new material that's being released by the Zappa Trust, or, on the other hand, stuff that I've known since my teen years.

And that's why "Zappa Every Day" is an interesting concept.
Flake, who was not too familiar with FZ's music, has listened to one 'classic' album a day. For 30 days straight. And she wrote down her experience in "Zappa Every Day".

I've only went through her review of the first  couple of albums, but this is fun.
Great lay-out / artwork / production.
You may not actually learn something from this book, but you will enjoy reading it !



FOOTAGE FROM THE ZAPPA 1980 MUDD CLUB CONCERT

Frank Zappa - Mudd Club (Live At Mudd Club, NYC, May 8, 1980)


10 000 RUSSOS - LIVE IN BERLIN

  • 10 000 russos: live in berlin
        (2022, lp, uk, fuzz club records)

10 000 Russos is a psychedic rock band from Portugal.
"Live In Berlin", is their latest album, and as the title suggests, it got recorded in concert in Berlin (at the Astra Kulturhaus, October 2021).

Repetitive and slowly shifting into some sort of hypnotic state, "Live In Berlin" is a pleasant introduction to 10 000 Russos.
The vinyl is a limited release. If you want it, you shouldn't wait too long.

-- info: Philippe Lamoot

CUNEIFORM ANNOUNCES A NEW SOFT MACHINE ALBUM

"The Dutch Lesson", a new Soft Machine release, will present recordings from October 1973.


MUSIC ACROSS

Every first Monday of the month, a new podcast of the Music Across radio show gets aired.

The next one, due on Monday, April 3, 2023, will focus on last year's Zappa Spielt Für Bach concert.

Hosted, edited and produced by Gernot Friedbacher.

Gernot adds:

In July 2022, as part of my trip to the Zappanale in Bad Doberan on the Baltic Sea, I also took the time to make a short detour to Hamburg to experience the concert "Zappa Plays for Bach" live in the main church of St. Katharinen, which has always taken place in the run-up to the Zappanale for several years. On 13 July 2022, this concert featured the brilliant blind Swedish musician Mats Öberg and the legendary Zappa singer and saxophonist Napoleon Murphy Brock as a duo under the name Colour Flash, and they received a standing ovation for their performance in a packed church.

In this programme, listen to music from this concert and interviews with the artists Mats Öberg and Napoleon Murphy Brock, as well as the host, Pastor Anne Wehrmann, the organiser of the concert series "Zappa Plays for Bach", Sebastian Knauer, and a concertgoer I spoke to before and after the concert.

Among other things, I talk with my interview partners about what the devout Johann Sebastian Bach, who dedicated all his works to God, and Frank Zappa, who has often expressed criticism of religion in interviews, have in common, and whether Frank Zappa would be happy about his music being played in a church...Quote Napoleon Murphy Brock: "He would not be happy, he would be thrilled...". And the pastor, Anne Wehrmann, on the question of Zappa music in church ?: "Of course, this touches on the fundamental question is God only in it where God is written on it...".

Listen to extraordinary interviews with extraordinary music!

Additional details:
https://o94.at/programm/sendung/id/2130259

Check out the podcast at:
https://cba.fro.at/podcast/music-across


FINALLY

Sometimes, one has to be patient.
Today's arrival :

Album 125 / 3CD / 3LP & 2 LP







DARKO THE SUPER - DARKOLADE

  • Darko The Super: Darkolade
        (2022, cassette, USA, private release) – Feb 7, 2022
Darko The Super’s “Darkolade” cassette tape got released as an orange tape in an orange tint case with glazed donuts on the j card but with no further identification.
The tape presented Darko the Super rapping over J Dilla beats.
Released in a limited edition of 40 copies.
A digital copy was made available as bonus tracks with the “How Do You Like Them Apples?!!!?” download.

The 'Darkolade Side A' lyrics mentioned “One Size Fits All” a couple of times, and sampled Frank Zappa's 'Dance Contest'.