FRANK ZAPPA - LUMPY MONEY OMORP

• Frank Zappa: Lumpy Money OMORP
      (2009, cdr, USA, zappa records #85.5)

In 2009, Zappa vaultmeister Joe Travers compiled "Lumpy Money OMORP", a CDR promo for the, at that time, upcoming "Lumpy Money" 3 CD set.

It presented an excellent selection :

1. Lumpy Gravy (Primordial): Mvt I - Sink Trap – 02:38
2. Absolutely Free (1968 Mono Mix) – 03:25
3. Lumpy Gravy (Excerpt - 1984 UMRK Digital Remix) – 02:59
4. Lonely Little Girl - The Single – 02:44
5. Section 8, Take 22 – 02:38
6. Concentration Moon (1968 Mono Mix) – 02:21
7. "What's Happening Of The Universe" – 01:36
8. Mother People (1984 UMRK Digital Remix) – 02:30
9. The Idiot Bastard Son (Instrumental) – 02:47
10. Flower Punk (1984 UMRK Digital Remix) – 03:04
11. Creationism – 01:10
12. Lumpy Gravy (Promordial): Mvt IX - Teen-Age Grand Finale – 03:30

CABALLERO REYNALDO

It looks like Caballero Reynaldo is preparing to perform at Zappanale next year.

FRANK ZAPPA - A TOKEN OF MY EXTREME

• Frank Zappa: A Token Of His Extreme
      (????, dvdr, ??, dripping cow records d.c.r.04)

I recently got hold of this nice little artefact from bygone times.
A DVDR recording of the "A Token Of My Extreme" special.

Apparently, sold as a bootleg years ago.
I don't have a clue when this got released or if there are any other releases out on the Dripping Cow Records label...

FRANK ZAPPA - LIVE IN PARIS 1980

• Frank Zappa: Live In Paris
      (2008, dvd bootleg, Australia & New Zealand, umbrella music david1478)

I recently got hold of the "Frank Zappa - Live In Paris 1980" DVD.
Released in Australia and New Zealand in 2008.

It features a selection from a 1980 broadcast on French TV.
Re-broadcast in 2007.

It's a nice little thing (34 minutes) but the real deal (= the entire concert) is up on YouTube !!

DWEEZIL ZAPPA - - - LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON - - - 2026 10 23 - - - RIALTO THEATER, TUCSON

An audience video recording of the complete Dweezil Zappa 2026 10 23 showed up at DimeADozen and on YouTube.

 

Purple Guitar * Stink‐Foot * Andy * Cruising for Burgers * Wowie Zowie * Let's Make the Water Turn Black * The Adventures of Greggery Peccary (snippet only) * Any Way the Wind Blows * Peaches en Regalia * Cosmik Debris * Status Back Baby * Stuff Up the Cracks * Wild Love * Eat That Question * Electric Hoedown
Encores:
City of Tiny Lites * I'm the Slime * Muffin Man

ANOTHER ZAPPANALE SPECIAL ON THE MUSIC ACROSS RADIO SHOW

The MUSIC ACROSS radio show !
Every first Monday of the month at 21h00 at RADIO ORANGE - ORANGE 94.0 

https://o94.at/de/sendereihe/413/music-across

https://cba.media/podcast/music-across

Produced by Gernot Friedbacher

Episode 141 – Zappanale 2026 – #3 – Music Outside the Norm

Girl Power, France & more – 2 November 2026, 9.00 pm!

From 16 to 19 July 2026, the 35th Zappanale took place in Bad Doberan on the Baltic Sea.
‘Music Across’ was there once again and conducted interviews with all the musicians; these can be heard in four ‘Music Across’ shows, alongside live recordings from the concerts.

In this third of four shows on the 2026 Zappanale, you can once again hear interviews and live recordings from two bands, ‘Brique’ from France and ‘HALA’ from the Netherlands, in which fantastic female frontwomen once again wowed the audience. Also noteworthy were the performance and interview with the French band ‘Mentat Routage’, featuring jazz musician and vocal artist Médéric Collignon, who won over the audience with their infectious enthusiasm and plenty of humour. This show also features the ‘Filthy Brillos’, comprising musicians from Germany, the UK and Chile. 

FYI, the first two MUSIC ACROSS radio specials on the Zappanale 2026, broadcast on 7 September and 5 October 2026, can be listened to in the Cultural Broadcasting Archive at cba.media under the ‘Music Across’ series.

Gestaltung, Am Mikrofon, Tontechnik & Produktion: Gernot Friedbacher

https://o94.at/de/sendereihe/413/music-across/sendung/58638/zappanale-2026-3-music-outside-the-norm-frauenpower-frankreich-more

ORANGE 94.0 dem Freien Radio in Wien:
im Radio: Frequenz UKW 94.0 MHz – im gesamten Großraum Wien
über Telekabel: Frequenz 92.7 MHz – in Wien
über Internet Live Stream: http://o94.at (oben auf Live Stream (grünes Dreieck) klicken) – weltweit

Sendungen können nach der Erstausstrahlung auch im Cultural Broadcasting Archive des Verbandes Freier Radios Österreich nachgehört werden unter
https://cba.media/podcast/music-across

FRANK ZAPPA - LIVE 'N' GREASY

• Frank Zappa: Live ‘N’ Greasy
      (2026, cd, --, homespun hsp2cd21321

Another Frank Zappa radio show album got released earlier this year.
The Zappateers data sheet for this concert says:

 1984/07/21 Palace Theater, Los Angeles, CA, July 21, 1984.

• Frank Zappa – Guitar, Vocals
• Ike Willis – Guitar, Vocals
• Ray White – Guitar, Vocals
• Napoleon Murphy Brock – Sax, Vocals
• Scott Thunes – Bass
• Allan Zavod – Keyboards
• Bobby Martin – Keyaboards, Vocals
• Chad Wackerman - Drums   

Disc 1

1. Intro – Treacherous Cretins
2. Montana
3. Easy Meat
4. Improvisation, Easy Meat & Caroline Hard-Core Ecstasy
5. Advance Romance
6. He's So Gay
7. Bobby Brown Goes Down
8. Keep It Greasey
9. Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me
10. Carol, You Fool

Disc 2

1. Chana In De Bushwap
2. Let’s Move To Cleveland
3. Tinseltown Rebellion
4. Oh No
5. Trouble Every Day
6. Penguin In Bondage
7. Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel
8. Jungle Boogie (improvisational stuff, on request)
9. The Closer You Are
10. No, No Cherry   

A fine recording and a superb show...

A radio show CD, but you can also download it from Zappateers !

FRANK ZAPPA - 200 MOTELS

• Frank Zappa: 200 Motels
      (2022, 2 shm cd, Japan, universal uicy-16054/5)

Frank Zappa's "200 Motels" album got a nice re-release in 2021, both as a box set and as a 2 LP and as a 2 CD set.
One year later, in 2022, the CD got a Japanese release on SHM CD. It came with an obi and with an additional (Japanese) booklet.

AN ED PALERMO BIG BAND UPDATE

https://www.ticketweb.com/event/the-ed-palermo-big-band-iridium-tickets/14331154

Well, it's that time of year again. And it looks like things are shaping up nicely for our next performance. Join our zany bandleader, as we venture into uncharted musical territories.
It's the Ed Palermo Big Band, live and unfiltered. Nov 23 at The Iridium.
Plus, we'll be celebrating the release of our new album, "It's an Ed Palermo Christmas! God Bless Us, Everyone!"

THE BIG SWIFTY

The Big Swifty was a medium-sized jazz ensemble / small big band from Nijmegen,  NL, formed by the Dutch saxophonist and composer Bo van de Graaf, active between 1995 and 2000.

The ensemble performed the music of Frank Zappa, next to pieces by Astor Piazzolla and by Dutch contemporary composers.

Here's The Big Swifty, performing 'Swingtime' by Mark v Platen,
a piece that sounds like a broken record,

live in O42 Nijmegen, 1997.

Bo added:
Composed as a damaged 78 rpm record . Performed live in O42 Nijmegen in a program by Bas Andriessen (interview and live music with the composer).
Because it was extremely difficult to play there was only one performance.

MATTHEW JASKOT

Matt Jaskot's 'Dense, Angular, Nuanced, Cosmic Energy' (2017), is a piece for flute/piccolo, clarinet in B-flat/bass clarinet, and piano

It premiered by Alicia Kosack, Laura Armstrong, and Matthew Jaskot on October 22, 2017 in Bel Air, MD

It's a composition in four movements with the final movement being FZ's 'Bebop Tango' !

  
I. Fist Pumps and Giant Stomps
II. Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee
III. Balloons of Remembrance Glide to Infinity
IV. Bebop Tango (F. Zappa, arr. Geoffroy Burleson)

https://www.matthewjaskot.com/copy-of-breathe-in-these-moments-ju

Here are movements two and three.
(unfortunately, I could not find a recording of the fourth movement)

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CHANAN HANSPAL ON FRANK ZAPPA'S USE OF THE SUS2 CHORD

HIBUSHIBIRE - PHANTOM FUZZY EXOTICA

 

• Hibushibire: Phantom Fuzzy Exotica
      (2026, lp, --, riot season records) – crystal clear vinyl + poster / 250 copies
      (2026, lp, --, riot season records) – red swirl vinyl / 300 copies

Next to the purple vinyl version of Hibushibire's "Phantom Fuzzy Exotica", the album has also been made available on crystal clear, and on red swirl vinyl.

It included ‘Invocation And Ritual Dance Of The Electric Nonsense’, for which the Bandcamp page added:
Hard psychedelic jazz rock. The title is a little nod to Frank Zappa.

Beautiful packaging, including an obi.

NEW ED PALERMO BIG BAND ALBUM AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER

"It's An Ed Palermo Christmas! God Bless Us, Everyone" is available for pre-order on Bandcamp.

THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION - FREAK OUT

Next to the "Freak Out" box sets, the album was also re-issued as a 2 LP set on multi-colored vinyl.
As far as I know, only available from the Zappa dot com shop.
It looks pretty neat (& comes with the Freak Out Hot Spots map)

FILA BRAZILLIA - LUCK BE A WEIRDO TONIGHT

• Fila Brazillia: Luck Be A Weirdo Tonight
      (1997, cd, Germany, pork recordings)

Fila Brazillia is Steve Cobby and David McSherry.
Track number four on their “Luck Be A Weirdo Tonight” album is called ‘Hells Rarebit’. It sampled sped-up drums from of FZ’s ‘Apostrophe’ throughout the piece.

Out on CD and available on Bandcamp.
A 2 LP vinyl re-issue saw the light of day in 2021.

It wouldn't be the last time the duo used a Zappa sample. 'Ridden Pony' from the 1999 "A Touch Of Cloth" album, sampled 'Eat That Question' !!

Here's "Luck Be A Weirdo Tonight":

I COMPANI

Dutch ensemble I Compani released "Circusyears, '91, 92, 93" on CD in 2025.
The album included ‘Theme From Lumpy Gravy & Let’s Make The Water Turn Black’ (F. Zappa), and also ‘Bolero For Hugo Zamoratte’ (M. Ravel, arr. Bo van de Graaf, F. Zappa).

More info soon.

Here's I Compani in concert in 2024:

-- info: HP Schmidt

TRACKLIST FOR THE UPCOMING ED PALERMO BIG BAND CD

 

NEW ZAPPA TITLES ON THE OLDAYS RECORD LABEL

The Oldays record label is keeping a nice tempo in releasing the old Zappa / Mothers albums.

Here's what the latest three look like:

THE FOOLZ

R.I.P. Remco Aalhuizen.
Great guitar player and very nice guy.