- ich bin wallou: la vie des bêtes
(2021, download / streaming, --, bandcamp)
Despite the global mess that we're in, 2023 did bring us some great music and some beautiful surprises.
One of these surprises was my discovery of Ich Bin Wallou.
French band Ich Bin Wallou got founded in September 1994 !!
In 2020, the band started a kisskissbankbank funding project to support the release of an LP entitled “La Vie Des Bêtes”.
The album got released on vinyl (2 LP in a fold-out cover) in a limited edition of 200 copies.
The initial files included a track taken from a Frank Zappa interview called ‘Zappa Introduit Tinseltown’ (Zappa Introduces Tinseltown) but that didn’t make the vinyl version.
Eventually, 14 tracks made it to the 2 LP set, of which 11 tracks also got released on Bandcamp.
All / most of the tracks had nods to FZ’s music and were composed by Kader Hadi.
One of the tracks, ‘No Wrong Tinseltown’, included several musical references ( & album titles thrown into the lyrics).
The album got released on vinyl (2 LP in a fold-out cover) in a limited edition of 200 copies.
The initial files included a track taken from a Frank Zappa interview called ‘Zappa Introduit Tinseltown’ (Zappa Introduces Tinseltown) but that didn’t make the vinyl version.
Eventually, 14 tracks made it to the 2 LP set, of which 11 tracks also got released on Bandcamp.
All / most of the tracks had nods to FZ’s music and were composed by Kader Hadi.
One of the tracks, ‘No Wrong Tinseltown’, included several musical references ( & album titles thrown into the lyrics).
This is an amazing album !!
Class musicians that perform fine, complex and humorous compositions (with lots of nods to FZ).
I love it. This is great stuff.
Essential listening for every Zappa freak !!
Class musicians that perform fine, complex and humorous compositions (with lots of nods to FZ).
I love it. This is great stuff.
Essential listening for every Zappa freak !!
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