To be honest, I was quite impressed when I saw these Cosmic Top Secret Laboratories albums. They're bootlegs, that's true, but they do look good: longboxes, nice pictures, band & setlist on the back, ...
This CTSL-label is not only publishing Zappa material. I've seen a number of Led Zeppelin titles as well.
So after 3 Zappa titles and a bunch of Led Zeppelin stuff, CTSL came back with a Zappa concert for CTSL - 012 : "Je suis une légende - I am a legend", offering the 1979/03/17 concert in Brest, France.
Zappateers links
Episode three in the Cosmic Secret Laboratories series is entitled "King Kong Boogie". This time, the beautiful longbox houses the 1969/05/23 Appleton concert, plus all the tracks from the famous 1970/06/18 VPRO-TV show at Uddel.
This is nice.
I really like these Uddel recordings. Too bad that the video footage of the Uddel show never turned up...
Zappateers links:
http://www.zappateers.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=14457
"Sheik On Stage" was the second title on the Cosmic Top Secret Laboratories label. Another 2 CD bootleg in a good-looking longbox.
This time it's the 1980/11/13 Late show at the 'Stanley Theatre' in Pittsburg, PA, usa. A fabulous concert.
Also available, for free, from Zappateers
http://www.zappateers.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=22461
Last year, the Cosmic Top Secret Laboratories released a number of CD-bootlegs. The first in the series was "Genius At Work". Released in a longbox, the 2 CDs presented the 1979/02/12 Manchester concert.
Nice package. Nice concert.
Zappateers:
http://www.zappateers.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=2576
Challenge Records released a recording of a 1970 concert of Dexter Gordon in San Francisco. The band featured George Duke on piano & keyboards.
Data has been added to the U.M. Archives.
-- info: Danny Mathys
This Zappa bootleg DVD presents two concert recordings: an audience recording of the 1980/06/11 Paris concert, and a professional recording of the 1984/12/10 San Antonio concert.
The video quality of the Paris concert is not that good, but the concert itself was really good. The 1984 concert combines an OK image (although better copies should exist), a soundboard recording, and a great show.
If only the ZFT would release some concert recordings on video...
I brought this nice DVD home from Zappanale. It doesn't really mention a date of release, so I'm assuming that it's from 2011.
Nick Didkovsky's Doctor Nerve, live at The Knitting Factory on 1991/11/14, has been put on this fine DVDR. Over ten years old, and still sounding fresh and experimental.
This is great stuff.
In times when everybody's talking about downloads and the disappearance of actual carriers, I'm glad that I can put this versatile disc in my DVD-player and enjoy this fine concert.
Final track on the disc is Doctor Nerve doing Don Van Vliet's 'When It Blows It Stacks'.
Here are a couple of Doctor Nerve YouTube fragments, including the start of their Zappanale concert.
a Paul Hubweber newsflash:
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Lovely Ritas and Bungalow Bills,
Rockk-and Roll Aficionados und Beatlesfans,
Sixties Freaks and Sexy Sadies, Lucies in the Sky, Rocky Racoon,
Come together!
spielen aus dem Repertoire der Beatles, from "Boys" to "Girls", from "Get Back" to "Get Down".
Ein sehr spezielles Revival, ein verrückter Trip zwischen Original und Anarchie, eine Tour de Force durch die musikalischen Stile.
Samstag,28.1., 19.30 Cafe Einstein (Lindenplatz/Königstr), 52064 Aachen
a message from the Hall Of Fame record label:
for more information: www.corrievanbinsbergen.com/brokkenfabriek/
In 1977, the Los Angeles Free Music Society released their 5th album, a various artists compilation entitled "Blorp Esette - Volume 1". Each participating artist had to pay US $ 2.00 for each 15 seconds of time on the album, but they would also receive a copy of the album for each 15 seconds that got released...
The result was a bizarre collection of sounds and music that featured Smegma, Ace Farren Ford, Henry Kaiser and The Residents, to name a few.
Don Van Vliet signed for the artwork, and 500 copies of the album got pressed.
With enough material at hand, The LAFMS released the 2 LP-set "Blorp Esette - Volume 2" in 1980 as a follow-up. Again, with beautiful artwork by Don Van Vliet. This time the LAFMS pressed 250 copies.
As you can imagine, these vinyl copies are quite hard to find. In 1999, the Transparency label took on the difficult task to re-release these albums, the result being a 4CD-set. Enhancements included a lot of bonus material, better sound levels and more stereo.
The Residents' track was left out, but the extra music was a great. A beautiful set, but not easy to find either as it also sold out.
And that's where the good news comes in. Transparency has re-released a remastered version of this 4CD-set. Same cover, same artwork, and some minor musical changes.
The music on the set is over 30 years old, and still sounds as out-of-this-world like the first time I heard it. Literally.
And that's not all as Leo Records is hosting a 5-day Leo Records Festival in Russia: 2 days in St. Petersburg, 2 days in Moscow and 1 day in Arkhangelsk.
A picture of the cover and the table of contents for issue number 69 of the Arf Dossier, the Zappa fanzine that's published by the Arf Society, have been added to the United Mutations Archives.
GRAND MOTHERS EU TOUR FEB 2012
SWITZERLAND, GERMANY, HOLLAND, BELGIUM, DENMARK, CZECHIA, AUSTRIA
with
NAPOLEON MURPHY BROCK
TOM FOWLER
CHRISTOPHER GARCIA
ROBBIE MANGANO
with special musical guest
(DR) DON PRESTON
"The Rivers of Hades was part of an aural art piece to accompany the release of The Residents action figures which had been designed by Steve Cerio.
The original music was conceived to utilize two DVD players that were programmed to randomly play abstract bits of music.
The project (which required 12 speakers placed in a circle around the gallery) was entitled 'Chaos Is Not Just A Theory'. In Greek mythology, Hades was a child of Chaos.
As these kinds of things go, it never quite worked out. The gallery never agreed to provide the sound system and some people felt it would be unpleasant for attending guests so by the time the toy release actually happened (there were several lengthy delays) The Residents had lost interest and had moved onto other projects which did not allow them to even attend the toy release opening.
However, Homer Flynn, Leigh Barbier, and Steve Cerio did attend and showed non-Residents art work. "
(notes from release)
Previously released as download-only from the Rez Robot Selling Device.
The Transparency label isn't afraid to take a risk. Last year, they released "Decoder", the 1984 German cult-film that was based on the writings of William S.Burroughs.
The movie features Genesis P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle), F.M. Einheit (Einsturzende Neubauten), Christiane F (Shellshock), and Bill Rice.
The package consists of a double layer DVD (movie & extras), and a CD (with the soundtrack).
The movie is about audio experiments. A group of 'pirates' adds some sort of musical tranquilizer in muzak, forcing people to fall asleep when they hear it. Big Brother isn't happy and tries to stop them, leading to some sort of huge riot.
Here's what the info says:
"DVD features include a beautiful color-rich transfer of the film with newly translated English subtitles, the original trailer, a slide show of 75 still production photos by Ilse Ruppert, a documentary on the Italian 'Decoder Collective', a 46-minute audio interview with filmmaker Klaus Maeck, rare footage of Derek Jarman filming Burroughs on set, and Berlin riot news footage used in the film with a music loop by Genesis P-Orridge commissioned specially for this DVD release.
The soundtrack CD features Soft Cell, early Einsturzende Neubauten, Matt Johnson (The The), Dave Ball and Genesis P-Orridge, and William Burroughs. A lot of the music on the CD is not in the film and vice versa. NTSC all region, full screen format. 87 minutes."
"Who Is Rufus Harley" is a one hour documentary on Rufus Harley, collecting a couple of tv-specials, even including a tv-show.
Nice.
In times of YouTube and other internet wonderment, one might wonder what the added value of this dvd is, but it's a nice collection.
Maybe not the best quality, but as it was compiled by the late Rufus Harley himself, who are we to complain.
Here's Rufus with a fine jazz classic: 'Sunny':
the aristocrats: s/t
fattore zeta: dio fa - zappanale 19
the residents: the 12 days of brumalia
the vegetarians: zappanale 22
essra mohawk: zappanale 22
devin flynn and gary panter: devin and gary go outside
fido plays zappa: zappanale 22
the plastic people of the universe: zappanale 22
radio show: voices on the verge, show #0352
Don Preston's latest album is entitled "Piano Excursions" and it has Don performing 11 pieces, solo on piano.
This is beautiful music. Solo piano performances always have this great intensity. Great pieces and a stunning performance.
Availabe through Don's store on FaceBook, but also through Don's Amazon Shop.
Check it out!
"Live At The Broken Doll" is a free download from Paul Rose's website. I mentioned the album on this blog yesterday. Unfortunately, the downloading didn't work out, so I mailed Paul and asked if the album was still available.
Apparently, the files had been erased from the server, but Paul said that he would put them up again.
So here it is, for your (and my) enjoyment: "The Paul Rose Band: Live At The Broken Doll".
Rated 'Official Bootleg', you know that you shouldn't expect the best audio quality, but that should not withhold you from downloading this album.
A great concert.
The Paul Rose Band played some raw and catchy blues songs that night.
Melodic blues. All instrumental. That's the way I like it.
And hidden in the setlist was Frank Zappa's 'Black Napkins'. A great rendition and fitting in perfectly.
http://www.paulrose.co.uk/shop_brokendoll.html
And some of you might even want to know that Paul talks in lenght about this recording on two of his poscasts. Temporary available from Paul's website as well:
http://www.paulrose.co.uk/audio/00%20-%20Broken%20Doll%20Pt%201.mp3
http://www.paulrose.co.uk/audio/00%20-%20Broken%20Doll%20Pt%202.mp3
Steffen Schindler was kind enough to send in the setlist for the concert that Lazuli did at Zappanale last August. Nice. Thanks.
2011 08 20 concert Zappanale Bad Doberan, Germany
Jimmy Ågren is a great blues guitar player. Together with Freddie Wadling and another fine bunch of musicians he did the "The Music Of Captain Beefheart" project in 1995 (released on CD in 1996), he has toured and recorded with Mats & Morgan, performed as the Jimmy Ågren Band, released a couple of solo albums and even did a series of concerts with Denny Walley.
On the http://www.jimmyagren.com/ website, Jimmy is offering the "Live At Scharinska" DVD for free download.
"Live At Scharinka" got recorded in 2006 and 2007. Both times at Scharinka. The recording is fine and the concert is worth checking out.
Jimmy Ågren on guitar, harmonica and vocals ** Morgan Ågren on drums ** Rolf Hedqvist on bass * and Magnus Lindbloom on guitar.
Here's a youtube clip from 2010.
"Six Frenchmen In Amsterdam" presents the band's December 10, 2008, concert at 'Paradiso'. This concert was recorded and was to be broadcast by Fab Channel, but between the recording and the broadcast, the web TV Fab Channel ceased to exist.
Lucky for us, Lazuli decided not to waist this terrific recording.
Six Frenchmen in the Dutch rocktemple in Amsterdam, NL. I could settle with less.
Great gig. Great recording.
Last August, Lazuli was one of the top acts at Zappanale. A video recording of this concert was made available at the festival in a (very) limited edition of 20 copies.
I was there & I loved it.
An audience audio recording of the Lazuli Zappanale gig can be found at the Zappateers website.
