THE ZAPPAMUNDO FESTIVAL 2011

It looks like Lisbon will be the place to be on June 18.
The Zappamundo Festival 2011 will be hosting 5 bands that will be performing the music of Frank Zappa.

And a very impressive list it is. Here we go:

• Karma My Dog


• Solistas de Metropolitana de Lisboa


• Zappa Odyssey


• Filthy Habits Ensemble


• Tarentatec

http://www.zappanoia.org/
zappamundo@gmail.com

DWALMACAT 429

This week at Dwalmacat...

Go to
http://www.fmbrussel.be/programmas/dwalmacat.aspx
and click on “Luister”
to enjoy

• ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – Peacebone


• RENALDO & THE LOAF – There’s a cap upon the lawn


• KEVIN BLECHDOM – Always frank


• SOLEX – Solex’s snag


• ERIC RANDOM – Fade in


• CHROME – New age


• DAPHNI – Ye-Ye


• JOHN COOPER CLARKE – Evidently chickentown


• JOHN ZORN – Bass and the treble


• ART ZOYD – Le bruit du fer


• RONNIE HAZLEHURST AND THE GG BAND – Ku-Ku


• DJ SHADOW – In-flux


• HOLGER HILLER – Happy to go shopping


• BETH B. & SCOTT B. - Angel’s theme

ZAPPATIKA IN CONCERT IN LEIDEN 2011 06 18

Saturday, June 18, Zappatika will be performing the music of Frank Zappa in Leiden. At the "Q-Bus". I received the flyer, and it looks like this:

KENYATTE ABDUR-RAHMAN

Last week, I went to see the Frank Zappa Ensemble in Brussels. It was a pretty good concert, but I'll get back to that later.
First, I want to talk about Keneyatte Abdur-Rahman, who was at the concert as well. To be quite honest, I had never heard about Kenyatte before, and we only chatted for a brief moment, but when I got home I found the following little youtube movie.

Here's Kenyatte Abdur-Rahman on drums with Knoel Scott (of Sun Ra Arkestra fame) on saxophone, and Sebastien Bara on guitar, with Alphonse Anougna on bass, as the Alphonse Anougna Quartet.

I don't have a clue on the when and where of this recording, although it looks like it was recorded a little while ago...

HALL OF FAME RECORDS

Here's an update on a couple of Hall Of Fame Records artists.

March 4, Caballero Reynaldo appeared on the radio for an interview.

• 2011/03/04 radio show 'Colina 45', Radio Mislata
  interview & tracks from the "Traca / Matraca" album

And more recently, The Filthy Habits Ensemble got featured on spanish Radio 3

• 2011/04/17 radio show 'Tres en la Carretera', Radio 3, Spain
  with two members of the band, and a preview of the concert that will be broadcast on 2011/04/24.
  


• 2011/04/24 radio show 'Tres en la Carretera', Radio 3, Spain
  including parts of the 2011/04/01 concert that the band did at the Jazz Festival in Pamplona

JON LARSEN AND JIMMY ROSENBERG

Norwegian guitarist, composer, painter and surrealist Jon Larsen has produced a number of albums with various ex-Zappa bandmembers.

The fist one was called "Strange News From Mars" and got recorded in L.A. at Arthur Barrow's Mar Vista studio.
A follow-up album got released in 2008: "The Jimmy Carl Black Story".
And earlier this year, Jon Larsen released "Willie Nicerson's Egg", a project with Tommy Mars.

Larsen also is the man behind the Hot Club de Norvège ensemble. They have released over 25 albums to date.

Last year, Bjørn Ola Bjørntoft and Lars A. Hellebust made a documentary entitled "Jon and Jimmy", about the friendship and the collaboration between Jimmy Rosenberg (the Hendrix of Gypsy Jazz) and jazz guitarist Jon Larsen. The documentary got released on DVD in February 2010, and got broadcast on dutch television last week (May 24, 2011). Very impressive. And touching.

Here's one of my favourite Jimmy Rosenberg clips. Not from the documentary. Just a wonderful clip.

Jimmy Rosenberg - Guitar
Hady Mouallem - Violin
Renier Voet - Guitar
Simon Planting - Bass

PROJECT/OBJECT EUROPEAN TOUR CANCELLED?

U.S. band Project/Object wants / wanted to do a small european tour after their Zappanale gig in a couple of months.
I just heard that this little euro-tour might be cancelled. That's too bad.
Let's hope that their Zappanale gig will be happening.

GARY LUCAS / DEAN BOWMAN - CHASE THE DEVIL

• gary lucas / dean bowman: chase the devil
  (2011, cd, usa, knitting factory)

On his latest release, Gary Lucas collaborates with Dean Bowman. The result is a very impressive album. "Chase The Devil" blends blues and gospel into a powerful mixture. Great vocals by Dean Bowman, and some superb guitar playing by Gary Lucas.
The devil should be warned. If this duo catches up with him, it won't be his best day.

• gary lucas: street of lost brothers
  (2001, cd, usa, tzadic)

Adding data to the Gary Lucas discography, here's "Street Of Lost Brothers" in data and pictures. From 10 years ago. On John Zorn's label. And Zorn also guests on one track!
Nice.

MARSHALL ALLEN AT THE UNCOOL FESTIVAL

The Swiss UNCOOL Festival will be featuring Marshall Allen.
June 21 -> June 26

http://www.uncool.ch/2011/program.php

-- info: the Saturn newsgroup

SUN RA SPECIAL ON WMBR-FM 2011 05 23

The 'sun ra show' that charlie kohlhase does each year at around this time on his 'research & development' program got broadcast on monday, may 23, 2011 from 2pm to 4pm on WMBR-FM.

Here are some links

http://wmbr.org/m3u/Research_%26_Development_20110523_1400.m3u
stream it

http://headphones.mit.edu/archive/Research_&_Development____5_23_11_1:58_PM.mp3
download it

-- info from the Saturn newsgroup