"Music from the other side of the fence", as Captain Beefheart once said.
The phrase perfectly summarizes the spirit of Zappanale, the legendary annual Frank Zappa tribute festival held just outside Bad Doberan on the German Baltic coast.
Zappanale isn't a traditional festival; it celebrates progressive rock, jazz, classical, and avant-garde music—deliberately stepping "to the other side of the fence" of mainstream music.
This year, the rock sound seems more present but that's just a coincidence.
The best thing about the festival is that you get to watch and listen to the music alongside like-minded people.
They’re few and far between where we live, but here in Bad Doberan, there’s an exceptionally high concentration of them.
I’m looking forward to sharing my fascination with Sun Ra or The Residents, but I'm also eager to learn about music and musicians that I've never heard of.
Next to the freaks and friends that I'll be meeting tomorrow, I also re-acquainted with some childhood buddies. It seems that they have this thing going with HVV. Good for them.
And I forgot to mention the Michelle Records store yesterday. Also in Hamburg.
A nice shop & a happy customer :
Sun Ra's "Somewhere Over The Rainbow", an expanded re-issue of the 1977 album.
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