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Friends of adventurous and improvised music should give Mâäk's Spirit a try.
This Belgian collective, with Laurent Blondiau and Jeroen Van Herzeele as core members, has been around for over 20 years.
"5" was indeed their 5th release and is a great introduction.
Beautiful.
The complete stack has sold out, if I'm not mistaken. So let's hope it will eventually get a sort of Bandcamp or iTunes release.
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-- info: Danny Mathys
Another addition to The Others Of Invention, recordings of the music of FZ.
The Caribbean Jazz Project has at least 9 CD's out and Dave Samuels plays the vibes on all them.
Quite different from what Dave did in Zappa's band during the 1976 Palladium shows in NYC, but still interesting.
The Strut records label re-released "Dark Myth Equation Visitation", Nidhamu" and "Horizon".
On vinyl.
The three albums are also available as a package deal.
Next to these three re-issues, Strut is also releasing "Egypt 1971" on CD. Due out in November.
And then there's the 5 LP "Egypt 1971" box set that included the three above mentioned vinyls plus two vinyls with unreleased material.
I'm assuming and hope that's what can be found on the CD.
Anyway, the 5 LP box was part of Record Store Day and has already sold out.
25 copies (!!) are already being offered on Discogs for three times the initial price tag and more...
Anyone else notice the imbalance?
Fans of big band music should most certainly check out the Brussels Jazz Orchestra.
I had the opportunity to give two of their albums a listening session and I was quite impressed.
"Countermove" (2006) presented pieces by director and lead saxophone player Frank Vaganée.
"Signs And Signatures" (2010) included compositions by trumpet player Bert Joris.
Both out on the W.E.R.F. record label.
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-- info: Danny Mathys
Flat Earth Society is returning to the stage.
October 23, the band will perform at De Bijloke in Ghent, BE.
Early December, the band will start a series of 'work in progress' sessions in Mechelen, for Koen De Graeve's ORFEUS project.
Info :
https://www.arsenaallazarus.be/kalender/item/orfeus-jamsessies---lazarus-koen-de-graeve-en-flat-earth-society-fes
Love the build-up, the use of different sounds and how the guitar steers everything.
Treat yourself to a little adventure and give "Influenza" a try !
This is so freakin' good...
Highly recommended.
The latest Nordmann album arrived last week.
Jazzy soundscapes.
All about moods.
Like it.
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Is it me, or was it rather silent in the FZ 'radio show / bootleg' corner ?
Well, here's another title : "Your Mother Should Know", Ann Arbor 1967.
The "Zappa" movie / documentary will be screening at :
• OCTOBER 2 - Woodstock Film Festival
• OCTOBER 3 & 4 – SFFILM
• OCTOBER 10 - Camden Int’l Film Festival
Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius
with special guests, incl. Rachel Flowers
On Thursday, September 24th, The Prince Estate in partnership with Warner Records and YouTube, will Premiere a vault recording of Prince’s celebrated 1987 New Year’s Eve Benefit Concert for fans across the globe.
The concert took place at Paisley Park on December 31, 1987, in support of the Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless, and was Prince’s final performance of the Sign O’ The Times Tour stage show and his only on-stage collaboration with jazz legend Miles Davis.
Tonight at the Jazz Middelheim festival in Antwerp, BE.
19.00-20.00 u. – Jeroen Van Herzeele & Stéphane Galland play ‘Interstellar Space’
21.00-22.30 u. – Aka Moon'Sun Trance' is a 30-plus minute piece.
Composed by Markus Reuter, it featured the Mannheimer Schlagwerk percussion ensemble plus Markus Reuter on Touch Guitar.
The actual piece is one big soundscape.
The mix of the percussion and the Touch Guitar fits perfectly.
Alan Jenkins And The Kettering Vampires have a new album out.
http://www.cordeliarecords.co.uk/Pages/Buy%20Records.html
I enjoyed Joost Buis' Buisonic project at the Plusetage in Baarle Nassau, NL, a couple of weeks ago.
Joost Buis - trombone
Jeroen Kimman - guitar
Paul Pallesen - guitar
Dion Nyland - double bass
Tristan Renfrow - drums
The ensemble also did two concerts at Het Bimhuis in Amsterdam, NL.
These got recorded for Bimhuis TV :
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From the Bandcamp page:
"This is insane music. I used a compositional system that basically disallowed the musicians to play intuitively. They had to follow rules which served to create really strange melodies and harmonies," Markus revealed. "In the back of my mind, I wanted to create something as fundamentally radical as was (Miles Davis') 'Bitches Brew,' back in the day ... sort of an improvising 'big band' – where each player is on their own when it comes to specific pitches, but connected in terms of a common rhythmic grid and unified texture."
Recorded live in the studio (at the 4th annual MoonJune gathering, at La Casa Murada, Catalunya, Spain), every song is a mesmerizing journey, weaving seamlessly between various coarse and fine textures, where moments of tranquil harmony magically morph into spells of delightfully chaotic dissonance, stampeding one minute, and tip-toeing, the next.
Within the context of such challenging musical environs, some extraordinarily gifted, visionary players emote with defiant abandon, somehow, never discarding their unified 'the whole is greater than the sum of its parts' mindset or their polished collective dynamic swagger. Such paradoxes abound throughout this timeless classic.
Five extended compositions are thoroughly probed, despite the inherently reverential treatment they receive from the participating artists. Exhibitions of musical brilliance are overshadowed by the abstruse ingenuity of the foundation upon which they're constructed, amalgamated sonic offerings take on a life of their own.
Out on Moonjune Records
Released on CD but also available as digital download.
Snarky Puppy will be re-releasing a remastered version of their 2010 "Tell Your Friends" album.
They've already made a couple of download tracks available for people who pre-ordered the album.
Sounds great.
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That Monster Show Release Date: October 3, 2020
"In Between Dreams - Live In San Francisco"
Released December 4, 2020.
EARLYBIRD PRE-ORDER SPECIAL!
GET AN EXCLUSIVE 7″ VINYL OF PICNIC/LOSER + GOD’S MAGIC FINGER (LIVE IN JAPAN) FOR £5 – ONLY AVAILABLE AS AN ADD-ON WITH THE FIRST 250 PRE-ORDERS OF THE IN BETWEEN DREAMS CD/DVD RELEASE (NOT FOR INDIVIDUAL SALE)!
https://www.jimihendrix.com/music/music-money-madness-jimi-hendrix-in-maui/
Prince's upcoming "Sign O' The Times" box set is getting a lot of attention.
New tracks on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/3743OmxhbZblJxwYI4JJbj
A Podcast series:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7gkWkSaMa4gl4OHEb0zwjj?si=YbuvOYQxTO6xzmRYRzefig
from the Bandcamp page :
Speaking in general terms, "shapeshifting" refers to an act of rapid physical transformation, from one form to another by supernatural means. Whether its origins can be traced to a genetically inherited superhuman ability, incidences of the spirit world manifesting into the physical, shamanism, black magic, or something still completely unknown, has been the subject of much speculation for those who have dared question whether the concept is, indeed, a fictional one.
In an historical context, references to shapeshifting appear through poems, literature and cultural art and practices dating back centuries. It remains a common belief among Native American tribes. Adding to the countless thousands who have claimed to be eyewitnesses to this phenomenon over the years, there exists an ever-growing body of empirical evidence which challenges forensic examination, defies explanation and demands validation.
On the 18th of August, in the year 2019 AD, a shapeshifting experiment was conducted at a sonic laboratory in Brooklyn, NYC. The experiment involved three principle participants: touch guitarist & sonic pioneer. Markus Reuter; the equally able, agile and adventurous guitarist and sonic texturist, Tim Motzer; and the extraordinary chronological conductor, Kenny Grahowski – each proficient in the mysterious art of "sonic shapeshifting".
The experiment's venue: ShapeShifter Labs.
The experiment's premise: What are the corporate results of three highly skilled sonic shapeshifters, released from captivity into a high-energy environment?'What types of behavior will be observed, and what forms might they assume?'
An intro that got my curiosity.
The session resulted in beautiful, improvised soundscapes in which Markus Reuter, Tim Motzer and Kenny Grahowski all steered and followed.
MARKUS REUTER - touch guitar, electronics
TIM MOTZER - guitars, bass, electronics
KENNY GROHOWSKI - drums
Released on the MoonJune Records label.
Available on CD and from Bandcamp.
The e-mail says :
You're invited to join "Ed Palermo & Friends"
at The Falcon on Oct 3rd for dinner with incidental music.
Reserve your table now!
Seating is limited.
"Stripped x Three" presents a stripped version (= backing tracks) of three Joe Satriani albums, presented as a guitar-USB stick.
Nice !
Available at bandwear :
https://shop.bandwear.com/collections/joe-satriani-shop/products/sat001
From GlassOnyon PR
Rock Legend Todd Rundgren Releases First Single “Espionage” From His Forthcoming Album Space Force
Following his critically-acclaimed album of collaborations, White Knight, released in 2017 on Cleopatra Records, rock legend Todd Rundgren is releasing a new single “Espionage” from his forthcoming album Space Force. In contrast to its futuristic title, Rundgren returns to the days of yesteryear when artists would release several singles first before releasing an “album,” or collection of singles. Thus, Space Force will be released to digital platforms as individual singles, each with its own unique artwork, every 3 or 4 weeks with the entire album coming in early 2021.
First up is a song as adventurous as Space Force suggests, the ambitious collaboration “Espionage” with Muslim hip hop artist Narcy.
“The song is actually an orphan of White Knight. Narcy and I began the colab in the final days of that album and we couldn’t get it finished in time, so in a sense it’s the first song of Space Force.”
- Todd Rundgren
Keep an eye out for more Space Force singles including collaborations with Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo and idiosyncratic pop stars Sparks as well as a video for “Espionage.”
Stream the track here: https://orcd.co/todd_rundgren_narcy_espionage
The first album by Francesco Zago's Yugen ensemble also was the first album to be released on the renowned ArtrOck record label in 2006.
Excellent.
Essential listening.
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Yin Yin is going strong. Their recent album, The Rabbit That Hunts Tigers, has been issued in Japan.
Check it out.
The Orchestra Nazionale Della Luna has a new album out.
I was impressed by their first release, but "There's Still Life On Earth" is amazing.
Structured but also experimental at times, the album keeps you on your toes. Love the sax (or flute)/piano and sax/moog melody lines. It adds a beautiful oriental flavour.
And with a plastic waste / Covid-19 picture on the album cover, the band shows their concern about what is happening to the world.
King Khan's new album features Sun Ra Arkestra's Marshall Allen and Knoel Scott on two tracks.
The album begins with "Wait Till The Stars Burn", a planetary ode to the Sun. The second track "Tribute to the Pharoahs Den", is a requiem for Danny Ray Thompson (R.I.P.) of the Sun Ra Arkestra, his music and legacy now floating above us in the infinity of space. Both tracks and featuring Marshall Allen and Knoel Scott (of the Sun Ra Arkestra).
Out on Bandcamp and on vinyl.
Dutch guitar player and composer Cor Mutsers has a new album out, "Op Eigen Houtjes", on which he performs a Frank Zappa piece.
I assume it FZ's Theme from 'Lumpy Gravy', also known as 'Duodenum', of which a little YouTube video has been posted.
More info soon.
Manu Hermia, Kari Ikonen, Sébastien Boisseau and Teun Verbruggen are Orchestra Nazionale Della Luna.
Belgium, Finland, Belgium and France.
And the result sounds great.
Modern, experimental and melodic.
Check it out.
This is there first album, released in 2016.
Upcoming concerts by Corrie van Binsbergen
26 sep 19:30 / 22:00 Bimhuis Amsterdam, NL
Vanbinsbergen Playstation - REMISE
07 nov 22:40 Festival Woordnacht Rotterdam, NL
Frédérique Spigt - Misantroop
14 nov 20:30 Plusetage Baarle Nassau, NL
Vanbinsbergen Playstation - REMISE
20 nov 21:00 Jazzpodium De Tor Enschede, NL
Vanbinsbergen Playstation - REMISE
27 nov 20:00 Paradox Tilburg, NL
Vanbinsbergen Playstation - REMISE
From GlassOnyon PR
Prog Legend Eddie Jobson To Release “EDDIE JOBSON – LIVE” New Double CD
Musicians’ musician and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Eddie Jobson, best known for his virtuosic violin and keyboard work with Roxy Music, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, Jethro Tull and supergroup UK, brings us a compilation of live performances from Poland, Russia, Japan and the U.S.A. with his all-star ‘U-Z Project.’
Ensemble Studio Dan has some concerts scheduled
SPA CONCERTS
Five days of new sounds and strange music in the courtyards of the Franz-Novy-Hof
Mo, 7. September – Fr, 11. September 2020, Franz-Novy-Hof, 1160 Wien, AUSTRIA
KLANGSPUREN FESTIVAL 2020
Passaggio Verso Il Rischio
Th, 17. September 2020 – 8:00pm, Haus der Musik, great hall
Universitätsstraße 1, 6020 Innsbruck, AUSTRIA
Which reminded me of their Frank Zappa tribute recordings from a while ago :
https://soundcloud.com/studiodan/sets/tribute-to-frank-zappa
September 11, The Universe By Ear will be sharing the bill with Dave From Hollywood & The Professor.
Fr. 11.9.2020, 20Uhr, Quarterdeck Basel - Uferstrasse 80, Basel
The Professor (USA) // The Universe by Ear (CH) // Dave from Hollywood (CH)
