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Tim Op Het Broek invited none other than Mauro Pawlowski for his Kink radio show.
A fine interview plus two songs performed live. What else does one need?
https://kink.nl/podcasts/mauro-pawlowski-special?
My bluesy morning consisted of Derek Trucks' "Already Live" EP and Susan Tedeschi's "Better Days" album.
Very nice.
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"Manna / Mirage" was the album title of the first album by The Muffins. From 1978.
More recently, Muffins-founder Dave Newhouse started using it as the name for his projects.
"Man Out Of Time" is the fourth album by "Manna / Mirage".
It presents songs from different sessions, with various musicians, resulting in an unworldly collection of tracks.
Rock In Opposition.
Breathtaking.
-- info: Jan van Kemenade
Carl Verheyen is best known as the guitar player for Supertramp.
For the moment, he's touring. With Chad Wackerman on drums and Alphonso Johnson on bass.
Last week, they performed in Verviers, BE.
https://carlverheyen.com/tour-dates/
Carl Verheyen- Chad Wackerman- Alphonso Johnson
British band The Specials recorded Frank Zappa’s ‘Trouble Every Day’ and released it on their “Protest Songs 1924-2021” album, a collection of cover versions.
Lots of different edition can be spotted.
There was a signed edition available through amazon, at least two versions with different artwork (black letters on a white background), a red vinyl version with a bonus 7", a yellow vinyl version,...
The CD has been issued in a jewelcase and as a digipack but there's also a 'deluxe' digipack that comes with two bonus tracks (the same as the 7” that got released as a bonus with the LP).
The Ukulele Dub Society’s “Uke Pot – Volume Two” included three bonus tracks from their 2016 “Ukulism” album, including their version of FZ’s ‘Inca Roads’.
Supersister Project.
Bringing Supersister's music to the stage :
Robert Jan Stips - Rinus Gerritsen - Leon Klaasse
Rudy Trouvé has an expo at Het Huys in Ukkel (BE),
"Recent Stuff 2018 - 2021"
from October 8 to December 16, 2021.
Here's some album artwork, less recent :
Funky big band brass.
In 1968, while he was also the leader of the Military Music Departments in Heliopolis, Salah Ragab formed the first jazz big band in Egypt, The Cairo Jazz Band. Some of the best musicians in Egypt of that time were members – Zaki Osman (trumpet), Saied Salama (tenor sax), Khamis El-Kholy (piano) and Ala Mostafa (piano).
On these recordings The Band consists of five saxophones, four trumpets, four trombones, piano, bass, drums and percussion and various other oriental instruments. The opening concert of The Cairo Jazz Band was in Ewart Memorial Hall at The American University 23/02/1969 followed by many other concerts in various prestigious places such as the Old Opera House, The University of Alexandria and appearances on Egyptian TV Jazz Club Weekly.
Salah Ragab studied jazz theory and improvisation with the jazz musician and composer from Kansas City, USA, Osman Kareem, with whom he formed the first Jazz Quintet in Cairo in 1963 recording with the Radio Service of Cairo. He accompanied the great bandleader and composer Sun Ra on a tour in Egypt, Greece, France and Spain in 1984.
Re-released on LP and 2LP.
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Dutch seventies progressive rock band Supersister made five albums between 1970 and 1975.
A reunion and some live released added quite some album to their discography from 2000 onwards.
The latest release is called "Live In Scheveningen" and presents a concert from 1972.
One of the tracks was previously released on a Superstarshine sampler.
The Prince Estate is making a Prince figurine available.
Preorders for this ultimate collector’s item are open now exclusively through the Official Prince Store, with an estimated shipment date of August 2022.
Specifications:
Height: 10.5”
Width: 17.5”
Weight: 17 lbs (approx.)
Each individually numbered
November 3, 2021
20h00
at 'De Roma'
in Antwerp, BE.
"Zappa" by Alex Winter
https://www.deroma.be/nl/agenda/zappa/11279/
-- info: André Oomen
Bill Frisell Trio & Brussels Philharmonic (US/BE) | Jazz & Freedom by DJ Pat from Brussels (BE) | GingerBlackGinger (US/BE) | De Beren Gieren (BE) | Matthew Halsall (UK) | Ill Considered (UK) | Emma-Jean Thackray (UK) | Kamaal Williams (UK) | Chelsea Carmichael (UK) | Focus on Aspen Label (NO/BE) | Jean-Paul Estiévenart, Marcel Ponseele & Il Gardellino feat. Anthony Romaniuk (BE/AU) | Grégoire Maret & Jazz Station Big Band (FR/BE) | Lola Bonfanti (BE) | Lara Rosseel Band (BE) | Avishai Cohen & Yonathan Avishai (IL) | Deus Ex Machina (BE) | Muriel Grossmann Quartet (AT) | Jakob Bro, Jorge Rossy & Arve Henriksen 'Uma Elmo' (DK/ES/NO) | Timo Lassy & Teppo Mäkynen (FI) | Schroothoop (BE) | Tania Giannouli Trio (GR) | Jean-Paul Estiévenart International Quintet (BE/NL/US) | Don Kapot (BE) | Bokani Dyer + The Brother Moves On (ZA) | DJ Laani (UK)
https://studiodan.at/en/projekte/how-your-bird/
Four more Zappa Band shows have been added to the Qobuz website:
Resulting in 12 shows that have been made available !
Next Saturday, Oct 9, 2021 - at 21h00 (CET)
Tim Op Het Broek in conversation with Mauro Pawlowski
On KiNK radio
The Golden Dawn Arkestra Halloween Tour
http://goldendawnarkestra.com/#tour
Sat, OCT 23 - Tulips FTW - Fort Worth, TX
Sun, OCT 24 - Tower Theatre - Oklahoma City, OK
Tue, OCT 26 - Black Sheep - Colorado Springs, CO
Wed, OCT 27 - Golden Dawn Arkestra - Denver - Denver, CO
Thu, OCT 28 - Moxi Theater - Greeley, CO
Fri, OCT 29 - Vail Performing Arts Center - Vail, CO
Sun, OCT 31 - Empire Control Room & Garage - Austin, TX
German band Frank Out! performs the music of Frank Zappa.
And they're back.
Check out the website for more info.
If you want to attend the Bonn concert on 14/11, you probably shouldn't wait too long. There's only limited places available.
https://www.facebook.com/frankoutgermany
I think I mentioned the Android Trio's upcoming "Other Worlds" album a couple of weeks ago already.
Featuring Andrew Niven, Eric Klerks and Max Kutner, "Other Worlds" was produced by none other than Mike Keneally !
This is the band's second release. Due out in a couple of weeks.
Their first album," Road Songs", got released on the Orenda Records label in 2017.
The new album is out on Cuneiform.
from the Cuneiform newsletter:
It’s not that Other Worlds, Android Trio’s second album,
is going to be huge: it is huge, as in enormously thrilling and boundlessly inventive. Ironically, the global pandemic that left guitarist Max Kutner, percussionist Andrew Niven, and bassist Eric Klerks unable to meet in the flesh for more than a year also allowed them to make a record that blends grand statements with rhythmic complexity.
“Get your headphones,” Android Trio guitarist Max Kutner advises. Other Worlds is a wild ride.
It’s also a great advance over Android Trio’s powerful but recorded-in-a-hot-moment debut, Road Songs. Whereas the first record is essentially a performance document, Other Worlds is a fully fleshed-out compositional statement, marked by intricate production strategies and an assortment of extraordinary guests.
“Because we weren’t limited by studio costs and all that, we just went hog-wild on overdubs,” the guitarist explains. “So we were able to make an album to a level of excess that’s more like the things we grew up listening to. Kind of like Gentle Giant, or Genesis: this huge sound.”
If you go looking for influences, others will quickly surface. Progressive rock is certainly here: Other Worlds stands comparison to King Crimson’s masterpiece of the genre, Red, and Eric Klerks is one of a handful of electric bassists who can rival Yes mainstay Chris Squire’s singular blend of grandiosity and fierce aggression. In their deployment of odd time signatures and memorable melodies, many of the new record’s tunes owe a debt to the Bill Bruford/ Dave Stewart/ Allan Holdsworth school, while traces of American fusion can also be detected.
But, as Kutner points out, “we all love video-game music,” along with American minimalism, the hyper-technical electric jazz currently coming out of New York City, math rock, and the Ghanaian drumming that all three studied during their overlapping years at CalArts. (In fact, Other Worlds kicks off with one of those beats, before guest Jonathan Sindelman’s keyboards lead “Anger Dance” off in another direction altogether.
And then there’s the intriguing fact that Kutner, Klerks, and Andrew Niven were all schooled in playful virtuosity, sprung rhythms, and no-holds-barred experimentation while playing in two of the great legacy bands of progressive music: the Grandmothers, who specialize in the playful and occasionally self-mocking reinvention of the Frank Zappa/ Mothers of Invention repertoire, and the Magic Band, drummer-vocalist John “Drumbo” French’s uncannily inspired tribute to the music of his mentor and monster, Don “Captain Beefheart” Van Vliet.
“That’s how we kind of came together,” Kutner says. “Eric I knew more, because I’d played with him in a few different projects. Andy I met later, when I did this band called the Grandmothers of Invention, which was kind of like a Zappa alumni thing. We sort of crossed paths in Australia for the first time in 2014, when Eric and Andy were doing the Magic Band. And, you know, we were all like ‘This is great, but we need to do our own thing.’ Like, we can’t just play in legacy bands forever. We have to pay homage to the things we like by making our own stuff.”
Zappa’s influence is most apparent in the new record’s “Serial Tune”, which opens with a very Zappa-esque trumpet fanfare and draws on the late guitarist’s interest in putting early-20th-century compositional strategies into more accessible frameworks. Beefheart, in turn, comes to the fore on “Secular Athletes”, an appropriately muscular take on the brittle, bent blues abstractions of Van Vliet’s landmark Trout Mask Replica.
Neither sounds like anything other than Android Trio music—but there is another historical link in the presence of co-producer, keyboardist, and guitarist Mike Keneally, who was Zappa’s “stunt soloist” during the late 1980s, as well as a great composer and songwriter in his own right.
“I knew Mike, because we’d premiered one of his orchestral pieces in L.A. in 2011, and I’ve been in close with him ever since,” Kutner says. “And I figured that if there was anybody who would get all of the different references—the reference points for what we’re trying to do—and kick us in the ass to make sure that we were tighter in doing it, it would be Mike."
“He can play, sure, but he’s going to get subtle stuff in a way that a lot of other people wouldn’t get.” he continues. “And that’s the very cool thing about Mike: even though he’s twice our age, he’s just on it. He’s professional and he’s enthusiastic about things in the exact same way.”
With Keneally on board as musical guest, band counselor, technical supervisor, and ultimate aesthetic arbiter, Android Trio has made the album they really wanted to make — and Kutner stresses that Other Worlds is an album, in the best and most old-school possible way.
“All of us really love albums as much as we love performing,” he explains. “So we wanted to make this record something that’s fleshed out, in the way of the classic albums of the ’60s and ’70s: full of weird production stuff, and arrangements that might not necessarily translate to or even be possible in a live setting. We’re not going to be selling a million copies of this, so let’s just go for it and work with what we’ve got,” he adds. “We can’t be in the same room together, but we’re not limited by an engineer’s costs, or limited time for overdubs, or physical gear, so let’s just see what happens.
“That was really the focus: our love of sound—and it was probably the most fun album I’ve ever been a part of!
Andrew Niven – drums, percussion, synth, sequencers
Eric Klerks – bass, 8-string guitar, synthbass
Max Kutner – electric and acoustic guitar
with
Mike Keneally – keyboards, guitar, samples
Jonathan Sindelman – keyboards, organ
Daniel Rosenboom – trumpet
Jessica Lurie – baritone sax
Gregg Bendian – vibes
Produced by Mike Keneally and Android Trio
Beautiful new release ('radio show' album on the equinox label) of a 1985 Miles Davis concert.
"Live Under The Sky '85".
Miles Davis (trumpet), Bob Berg (sax), John Scofield (guitar), Robert Irving III (keyboards), Darryl Jones (bass), Vince Wilburn (drums), Steve Thornton (percussion)
Recorded in concert on July 28, 1985 at Yomiuri Land, Open Theatre East, Inagi, Japan.
Broadcast on NHK radio.
Disc 1: 1. That's What Happened / 2. Star People / 3. Maze / 4. Human Nature / 5. Something's On Your Mind.
Disc 2: 1. Time After Time / 2. Ms. Morrisine / 3. Code M.D. / 4. Pacific Express / 5. Katia
SNATCH IT BACK AND HOLD IT
Gov't Mule have released their new take on the Junior Wells standard "Snatch It Back and Hold It". In the new arrangement, the band covered the classic track while sandwiching a spontaneous original jam called "Hold It Back" in the middle.
"We had never played that middle section prior to recording it. While we were working up 'Snatch It Back,' we just ran through all the key sections and when we got to the instrumental part, we did a very brief talk through about how it might go. It was virtually a jam, and in that sense, it kind of referenced what we normally do on stage. We get an idea and run with it to see where it winds up. It never turns out exactly like you plan it, which is great, because if it is good, it's usually better than it would have been had you planned it a certain way." - Warren Haynes
With another 4 titles added to the previous 4, the Zappa Band concert collection on Qobuz is becoming quite impressive.
I'm also getting the impression that they're going to release the entire tour...
https://www.qobuz.com/be-fr/interpreter/the-zappa-band/download-streaming-albums
2021/08/31 Milwaukee WI
2021/09/01 Cleveland OH
2021/09/02 Huber Heights OH
2021/09/04 Holmdel NJ
Stéphane Galland (Aka Moon, Ibrahim Maalouf) & Adriaan Van de Velde
Out on LP and on CD as well.
Sunday afternoon, October 8, 2021, Fred Händl will present his latest album.
"TOVARISHCHI"
Festivities include a concert and a drink.
location: The Hague, NL
From GlassOnyon PR
Multi-instrumentalist and Composer Rachel Flowers to Release Third Solo Album “Bigger on the Inside” October 1, 2021
California multi-instrumentalist and composer Rachel Flowers will be releasing her eagerly awaited new solo album on October 1, 2021. Rachel demonstrates with her latest effort that she truly is, as the title suggests, “Bigger on the Inside.” As a composer, Rachel seamlessly weaves together elements of progressive rock, jazz, classical, and pop music with cinematic orchestrations, soaring melodies, and virtuosic playing. Top this off with Rachel's 3 1/2 octave vocal range and her uncanny ability to explore universal themes ranging from love, joy, and hope to depression, bullying, and fear of an uncertain future with sensitivity and optimism, and you have an album that is destined to stand the test of time.
Says Rachel, “I was inspired by composers and bands like Ambrosia, Frank Zappa, and Keith Emerson while writing the songs on ‘Bigger on the Inside.’ Some songs were inspired by or even heard in dreams. Others were improvised during the recording process. Sometimes just hearing a new piano sound can lead to inspiration. Some of my lyrics just come from my imagination and others come from real experience.”
Rachel Flowers is recognized worldwide as a multi-instrumentalist and composer whose music spans multiple genres. She first gained recognition for her talent as a young child and has been admired and mentored by those at the top of their field including Greg Lake, Keith Emerson, Dweezil Zappa, Conductor Terje Mikkelson, and a series of jazz greats, most notably Herbie Hancock. As a teenager she won numerous awards as a pianist and flutist, and has matured to perform and record on the global stage.
The award winning documentary “Hearing Is Believing” was produced about her unusual life and talents.
On the recommendation of one of my friends, I'm filling the gaps in my Albert Marcoeur album collection.
Early two thousand something, Albert re-issued most of his albums as beautiful series of digipack CDs.
In short, I'm not only filling gaps, I'm also replacing a couple of my older jewel case copies with these fine looking digipacks.
They look good, and they sound great.
Albert first couple of albums, "Albert Marcoeur" and "Album A Colorier", were released in 1974 and 1976. Next to Albert, the line-up featured his brothers Claude et GĂ©rard among others.
Lots of great stuff. Reminds me a lot of the early Mothers ("Uncle Meat").
"Armes & Cycles" (1979) and "Celui OĂą Y'a Joseph" (1984) continued and developed in the same direction.
There's lots of great examples to be found on YouTube. Check them out !
To be continued.
Happy Marcoeur Day !
The promo sheet for the Ed Palermo Big Band's latest release says that it's scheduled to play at the Zappaunion in Oslo, Norway, on May 27, 2022.
Frank Zappa - The Manchester Mystery
= Manchester 1979
-- info: Danny Mathys
Z.E.R.O. has announced a new album, "Make An Arf Noise Here".
Should be out on Cordelia Records near the end of October.
Really looking forward to this.
The Girls In The Magnesium Dress
= Valentina Scheldhofen Ciardelli and Anna Astesano
are recording their first album.
It will include their arrangement of Frank Zappa's 'Cheepnis' !!
message from the Facebook page:
A big good morning to all our friends and supporters here on Facebook!
After insomniac nights, a lot of research and music, we are incredibly excited to announce that
THE GIRLS ARE RECORDING THEIR FIRST ALBUM!!
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
RĹ«tsu will surprise you with an innovative repertoire, all inspired by Japan and its culture..if you would like to learn more about the project click here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rutsu/rutsu-roots
The Kickstarter campaign has just launched!! If you can support us, any help can have a huge impact on our work... a huge thank you for now, we'll give you more updates really soon!
Last week, when my wife came home from a session with her physiotherapist she told me that they had listened to the latest Pierre Vervloesem album on Spotify during her entire session.
Her physiotherapist has a fine taste in music and when she told him that I was overwhelmed with Pierre's latest "Flambant Neuf" album, he checked it out at that very same moment.
It made me smile.
Sometimes I wonder if I live in another universe.
https://pierrevervloesem.bandcamp.com/album/pierre-vervloesems-flambant-neuf
the arf-dossier no.109 - 2021/09
incl.
Vibraphonist Dave Samuels (who worked with Frank Zappa on various occasions) contributed to Don Sebesky's "I Remember Bill - Tribute To Bill Evans" (1997).
Lots if excellent musicians on this album.
Just take a look at the credits in this YouTube movie:
-- info: Jan van Kemenade
"Already Free" is a great sounding blues rock album by Derek Trucks.
It opens with a Bob Dylan's 'Down In The Flood', Suzanne Tedeschi guests on vocals on 'Sweet Inspiration', and 'Back Where I Started' was co-written by Warren Haynes.
Reason enough to investigate.
Here's a live version of 'Sweet Inspiration':
And one of my favorite tunes (not on this album), featuring Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi and Warren Haynes.
Performed at The White House with Booker T. in the backing band !!
February 2012.
-- info: Danny Mathys
Jean-Luc Ponty is doing a concert in Germany and in France next month.
OCT 17, 2021 - ESSLINGEN - GERMANY
WĂĽrttembergische LandesbĂĽhne
Esslingen, Germany
JLP TRIO
= JLP violin - CLARA PONTY grand piano / keyboards - GUY NSANGUE AKWA bass
Esslinger Jazzfestival (at 20:30)
OCT 29, 2021 - SAINT-GAUDENS - FRANCE
Parc des expositions du Comminges
Saint-Gaudens, France
PLE Trio (PONTY-LAGRENE-EASTWOOD)
= JLP violin - Bireli Lagrene guitar - Kyle Eastwood double bass
Festival Jazz en Comminges
Another Frank Zappa radio show bootleg will be released next month.
Disc 1 Concertgebouw, Amsterdam October 20th 1968 VPRO Jam / Smoke Gets In Your Eyes 2. Drum Solo 3. Help, I’m a Rock 4. Transylvania Boogie 5. Dog Breath 6. The String Quartet 7. Gas Mask 8. Orange County Lumber Truck Medley
Frank Zappa - guitar, vocals Roy Estrada - bass, vocals Jimmy Carl Black - drums Arthur Dyer Tripp III - drums, marimba, xylophone Ian Underwood - keyboards, flute, clarinet, saxophone Don Preston - keyboards John Leon Gardner - woodwind Euclid James Sherwood - soprano/baritone saxophone
Disc Two The 'Piknik' Show In Uddel, Netherlands, June 18th 1970 VPRO 1. Interview - Band Intro 2. Wonderful Wino 3. Concentration Moon 4. Mom & Dad 5. The Air 6. Dog Breath 7. Mother People 8. You Didn't Try To Call Me 9. Call Any Vegetable 10. King Kong 11. Igor's Boogie 12. King Kong Part 2
Frank Zappa – guitar, vocals Aynsley Dunbar – drums George Duke – keyboards Howard Kaylan – vocals Ian Underwood - keyboards, flute, clarinet, saxophone Jeff Simmons – guitar Mark Volman – vocals
a message from Dweezil Zappa to his Reward Music Platform subscribers :
https://www.dweezilzappa.com/songs
Hello Everyone,
I hope you're doing well. This week marks the 1 year anniversary of my website and the Reward Music platform. I really appreciate all of the support you have shared over the years.
Since COVID has taken away my ability to play live shows and tour as I have done in the past, I am focusing on creating music and video content on my website. I have a lot of new things in the works and I'm excited to share them with you. Fun collaborations and interactive stuff will be coming your way.
For those of you who have already subscribed to the SILVER PLAN, I am grateful and I hope you've been enjoying the monthly additions. Many of your subscriptions will be renewing this week and in honor of your support, I've just uploaded a FREE mini-concert gift for you.
The mixes are all F.O.H. mixes and they have been spiffed up a little in my studio to bring out a little more character and detail. Everything is live without any overdubs.
For those of you who are not yet Silver Subscribers, you too will get all of these songs for FREE the moment you subscribe.
If you would like to purchase the songs a la carte you may feel free to do that.
Thank you for being a part of my community. I really appreciate all of you.
Be well! DZ
The Zappa Band has made four shows available for streaming and/or download through Qobuz.
https://www.qobuz.com/be-fr/interpreter/the-zappa-band/download-streaming-albums
Short set as they were opening for King Crimson and were only allowed to play for 45 minutes.
Also no big surprises as the setlist stayed the same.
But great to hear some Zappa music performed live by some of my favorite musicians.
Mike Keneally (guitar, keyboard, vocals), Scott Thunes (bass), Joe Travers (drums, intro), Ray White (guitar, vocals), Jamie Kime (guitar), and Robert Martin (keyboards, sax, vocals).
Rock photographer Gie Knaeps has an expo at the library in Stekene, BE.
It does include a couple of shots of Frank Zappa (unfortunately not pictured on the website) :
https://stekene.bibliotheek.be/agenda/gie-knaeps-40-jaar-concertfotografie
https://www.pppush-it.be/gie-knaeps
Until the 10th of October.
-- info: André Oomen
Another Exotica sampler on the Cherry Red label.
Lots of names on here that I've never heard of.
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/total-exotica-as-dug-by-lux-and-ivy-2cd/
This new Alcatrazz sampler includes 5 tracks from "Disturbing The Peace", the album that featured Steve Vai (and for which Steve co-wrote most of the songs).
With the new Gob't Mule blues album that recently got announced, I'm re-listening most of their album (and filling some gaps in the discography).
Today's treats included "Life Before Insanity" (I have the CD that combines "Life Before Insanity" and "Dose") and "By A Thread".
Here's a snippet of "By A Thread": the first track 'Broke Down On The Brazos', with Jorgen Carlssons's pumpping bass and Billy Gibbons on guest guitar !!
a message from the Strut Records label:
SUN RA – LANQUIDITY
The single LP version of Sun Ra’s classic ‘Lanquidity’ is now available, faithfully reproducing the original Philly Jazz version of the album from 1978, complete with metallic foil sleeve. Includes liner notes by Bob Blank and the Arkestra’s Michael Ray and Danny Ray Thompson (RIP).
While some Yuripean shops list it as being available on October 29...
6 CD box,
2 CD
and / or
2 LP (black vinyl edition + red vinyl edition)
What a week...
An amazing new album by Pierre Vervloesem ("Flambant Neuf"), also out on CD !!,
Dweezil Zappa released some Zappa Plays Zappa material to celebrate the first anniversary of his Music Platform,
The Zappa Band released three shows on Qobuz,
FZ's 200 Motels has officially been announced as a 6 CD box set,
And yesterday evening, the Zappa documentary got shown on Belgian national TV.
Bodies Electric Celebrates the Music of Edgard Varèse, and Frank Zappa and the Psychedelic Circus
https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/bodies-electric/?
Adding data to the United Mutations Archives (and enjoying the album at the same time).
Gov't Mule's third release, their second studio album, "Dose", in 1998.
(Almost) all the tracks became classics during Gov't Mule concerts.
"Protest Songs 1924 - 2012"
1. ‘Freedom Highway’ (The Staple Singers)
2. ‘Everybody Knows’ (Leonard Cohen)
3. ‘I Don’t Mind Failing In This World’ (Malvina Reynolds)
4. ‘Black, Brown And White’ (Big Bill Broonzy)
5. ‘Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Us Around’ (traditional)
6. ‘Fuck All The Perfect People’ (Chip Taylor & The New Ukrainians)
7. ‘My Next Door Neighbour’
8. ‘Trouble Every Day’ (Frank Zappa & Mothers of Invention)
9. ‘Listening Wind’ (Talking Heads)
10. ‘Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes’ (Rod McKuen)
11. ‘I Live In A City’ (Malvina Reynolds)
12. ‘Get Up, Stand Up’ (Bob Marley)
Announced for June 2022 :
Alan Clayson's "Mother Superior" book,
The Saga of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention: The Authorised Biography
To be published by the Little Brown Book Group,
Hardcover,
320 pages.
I don't think about the composers of pieces I enjoy listening to,' reflected Frank Zappa shortly before his death in 1993, 'I'm only listening to the results.' That might be true for Zappa but it's his extraordinary life as much as his creative output that continues to fascinate countless devotees across the globe. Nothing concerning him is too inconsequential to captivate present-day 'Frankophiles', seeking to explain and clarify his artistic conduct and, generally, get closer to what made him tick - though, even when Frank was around to tell them himself, he left less answers than further questions.
Mother Superior will cover the early years - 1964 to 1973. It will both re-assess the old yarns and bring to the surface new and rediscovered information via an array of interviewees from every trackway of Zappa's fifty-three years on this planet. It will draw on a huge archive, some of it quite obscure, from public domain and personal collections. It will animate not only Zappa but also those who interacted with him, and the social, cultural, economic and environmental contexts in which this much misunderstood cultural icon lived and worked.
Alan Clayson also wrote a book on Edgar Varèse:
from the Trytone record label :
Spinifex is busy finishing their new album "Spinifex Beats The Plague", recorded in June, mixed and mastered by the legendary Pierre Vervloesem and due for release end of October. On 28.10., Spinifex will perform at Belgrade Jazz Festival.
A tiny, yet unmastered CD preview:
and available afterwards through the Cultural Broadcasting Archives:
http://cba.fro.at/series/
The album features Teun Verbruggen (drums), Falk Schrauwen (percussion), Thomas Mayade (trumpet, flugelhorn, keyboard), Bruno Vansina (sax, keyboard) and Pierre Vervloesem (guitar, bass).
In one word, the result is amazing !
Odd meters, exotic melodies, modern jazz,... I love it.
This just might be one of the best albums I've heard all year.
This album definitely needed to be released on CD. And I can only hope that we will be able to see this music being performed in concert !
Check this out ! You need to hear this.
And don't wait too long if you want a CD as there's only 300 copies being produced.
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I received a digital download of Gov't Mule's "Live At Roseland Ballroom" earlier today. I have several albums by Gov't Mule, but hadn't heard this one before.
Allen Woody, Matt Abts and Warren Haynes.
Recorded in concert at New Year's Eve 1995 (/1996) in New York City.
What a concert...
The CD has been ordered in the meantime.
The opener: 'Trane':
With 144 backers and 6.600 US $ pledged, Chris Opperman's "Still Waters" project got funded.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chrisopperman/still-waters
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Earlier today, I gave The Residents' "God In Three Persons" another spin. The Preserved version (the 3 cd set that presented the original album, soundtrack and demos).
Love it.
Amazing.
Jimmy Bruno talks about the dinner with…Frank Zappa, Tommy Tedesco, John Pisano, & Joe Pass.
Only a minor update on the Frank Zappa / Mothers Of Invention "200 Motels" re-release, but the box will be released at the end of October.
In my imaginary world, this box would include the "200 Motels" performance from the Holland Festival, the more recent performance from London (from around the same time that the L.A. Philharmonic one was performed, recorded and released), and one of the two concerts that were staged in France a couple of years ago (Strassbourg, or Paris, from which at least one was recorded on video as well).
But as I said, that's my imaginary world...
https://www.medici.tv/en/concerts/frank-zappas-200-motels-suites/
That said, I'm really looking forward to the announced re-release.
Curious to see if it will just be audio material or if it will include video material as well.
