ZAPPANALE SPECIAL ON MANNHEIM RADIO STATION TONIGHT

Local Mannheim radio station Bermuda Funk will be doing a Zappanale special tonight: from 20:00 until 22:00 h.
livestream : http://www.bermudafunk.org/
( click on "Livestream" then on "Anschalten")

ZAPPANALE REPORT

Once again, Zappanale was great.
The only comment that I can make, is that it was too much to cope with.
Too many bands that I wanted to see, too little time to catch it all...

But I did see some great concerts & I saw many friends again.
It was great...

More soon.

A SHORT CHAT WITH PAUL HUBWEBER

The Yellow Snow Crystals perform the music of Frank Zappa in their own particular way. They do it in German, they're not afraid of improvising, and they're great fun to watch.
Last year, these guys played at Zappanale, but due to bad weather conditions, their concert got postponed and they had to perform while other bands were performing on the main stage.
I was glad to hear that they got another opportunity to play in Bad Doberan this year. Here's a short chat with Paul Hubweber.


UniMuta : Hello Paul, how are the Yellow Snow Crystals doing?

Paul Hubweber : We are trying lots of new ideas. Also, there is the amazing Werner Huppertz who help us a lot with the website http://www.the-yellow-snow-crystals.de/ and other things.

UniMuta : And how are you feeling about your return to Zappanale?

Paul Hubweber : Great. We arranged two special pieces for Bad Doberan, the location, the festival and the audience there. Get your shoes and socks on people. It's right around the corner !

UniMuta : I noticed that you have an extra vocalist in the band? Does this mean that you are changing the repertoire?

Paul Hubweber : We will be there with 7 musicians which means that we bring along a small choir. Some of the songs are new, othes the same in new arrangements.

UniMuta : You're doing a short tour : Aachen, Bremen, Zappanale & Berlin. Four concerts in five days.

Is it hard to find gigs playing the music of Frank Zappa? Do you have other concerts scheduled in the near future?

Paul Hubweber : Well, as you might know, it's a strange situation when you are not part of the mainstream. To be a freelance musician is an adventure, anyway. But for what we are born but this ?

UniMuta : I really like the YSC combination of jazz, improvisation and Zappa. Besides Zappa, who are you musically inspired by?

Paul Hubweber : Maybe it's easier to answer by what i am not inspired ?.... :-).

Bach, Beethoven, Beatles, john Butcher, Paul Lovens, Dirty Loops, (early) Rolling Stones, Hendrix, Cage, Stockhausen, Kowald, John P.Edwards, Evan Parker, Kinks, The Troggs, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Robert Fripp, Robert Wyatt, Living Colour, Stevie Vai, Charles Mingus, Monk, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Ellington, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Brotherhood Of Breath, Steve Lacy, Roswell Rudd, Albert Mangelsdorff, Paul Rutherford, Archie Shepp, Hans Reichel, Paul Lytton, John Surman, John Peel, Serious Solid Swineheart Is Better Then Homecooked, Georg Wolf, Tom Waits, Hainer Wörmann, Ulrich Phillipp, Claus Van Bebber, DJ Sniff, Gentle Giant, Peter Hammill, Ilse Lau, Pablo Casalls, Julie Tippetts, Material, Maggie Nicols, Phil Minton, Peter Eisold, Jaap Blonk, Joscha Oetz, Radu Malfatti,...
Do you want me to continue....?  :-)

UniMuta : Well, there are a lot of names in there that I've never heard of, so I will have to investigate these. But first, I'm going to Zappanale to catch The Yellow Snow Crystals.
Thank you & see you very soon.

The Yellow Snow Crystals will be performing at Zappanale on Wednseday, August 1, 2012.

29.7 - 16h, D- 52076 Aachen - Kornelimünster, Napoleonsberg 104, ALTE BRAUEREI:

31.7. BREMEN  Paradiso

 1.8. ZAPPANALE Festival Bad Doberan 

 2.8. BERLIN  Bflat

DWALMACAT 480

Go to
http://www.fmbrussel.be/programmas/dwalmacat.aspxand click on "Luister" to enjoy

• NURSE WITH WOUND – Pleasant banjo intro with irritating squeak
• PULP – Babies
• FAMILY FODDER – Emergency
• PAUL McCARTNEY & THE WINGS – Jet
• KIYOHIKO SEMBA & THE HANIWA ALL STARS – An inferior’s crying
• THE HYBRID KIDS – Wuthering heights
• RAYMOND SCOTT – And the cow jumped over the moon
• PATRICK COUTIN – J’aime.... regarder les filles
• ADORABLE – Sunshine smile
• RANTA, LEWIS & PLANK – Mu IV
• DAVID THOMAS – Petrified
• AKIKO KANAZAWA – Yellow submarine ondo
• LUCIANO MARGORANI – Ridens / Orbitson parva
• PASCAL COMELADE, PIERRE BASTIEN, JAC BERROCAL & JAKI LIEBEZEIT – Prime of life
• SPRUNG AUS DEN WOLKEN – Nichts im Sinn
• HAROLD SCHELLINX – Kitty knew
• BAND T + INSTRUMENTS – Words
• NURSE WITH WOUND – This piano can’t think

NEW BEEFHEART ALBUM FROM OZIT RECORDS

UK label Ozit Records has announced two interesting albums:

• various artists: bickershaw festival 40th anniversary box set
  (2012, 6cd + 2dvd, uk, ozit records)

with 4 discs of Grateful Dead, and two discs with various perfomances of the 1972 Bickershaw Festival, including some Captain Beefheart.

• captain beefheart and the magic band: son of dust sucker
  (2012, cd, uk, ozit records)

"New updated version of the “Dust Sucker” album, which will be deleted after the current pressing has sold through. Captain Beefheart’s original tapes of the Bat Chain Puller album, sent to his friend Roger Eagle in the UK to make sure they got released in the UK, as in the USA the tapes were tied up in a dispute between Frank Zappa and his manager Herb Cohen. "Son of Dust Sucker" combines those original tapes with the surprise nine extra live bonus tracks from the Captain’s illustrious career."

A SHORT CHAT WITH CO DE KLOET

Music producer Co de Kloet will be back at Zappanale. A fine opportunity to ask him some questions.

UniMuta :  Hello Co, I was glad to hear that you will be returning to Zappanale. Last year, you did an impressive multimedia event with your taped interview with Don Van Vliet, showing Don's paintings, accompanied by live music by Gary Lucas. Will you be doing something similar this year?

Co de Kloet : Somewhat similar: in 1990 I made a 4 hour radio special with FZ at the occasion of his 50th birthday. This was for NOS radio (now NTR) and was called SUPPLEMENT. Based on that and with FZ's approval I issued a limited edirton of a cassette called The Supplement Tape. Now, I will do a 90 minute stage presentation called THE SUPPLEMENT TAPE LIVE. I will present an overview of the many taped conversations I had with FZ , from 1977 up to 1990 . There will be quite some segments that were never used for broadcast so never heard before by an audience. Also there will be some audio surprises, room for comments by the audience and I invited three special guests, George Duke, Scott Thunes and Gary Lucas. They all were happy to join me.

UniMuta : That sounds great. Are you surprised by a festival such as Zappanale? I mean, it has been 20 years since Frank's passing. At that time, did you think that FZ's music would survive and that musicians from different musical backgrounds would be keeping his music alive?

Co de Kloet : Yes, of course. His music is even to people who study it every day still a rich well of musical and other discoveries and inspiration.

UniMuta : The last couple of years, you have done some exceptional projects in which the Metropole Orkest was a prominent participant. I was one of those lucky peope to see Steve Vai, Terry Bozzio and Mike Keneally in concert with the Metropole Orkest. Unfortunately, the dutch governement has cut the grants for many cultural companies, including the Metropole Orkest.

How bad is it?

Co de Kloet : It is bad. I do not know what the future will bring for the institute as we know it. Our political situation is very hostile to adventurous and cultural programming. We will have elections in September so there might be some hope.

I have been working with them since 1983. As a matter of fact, my presentation will include the version of Uncle Remus they did in a fabulous arrangement by my friend Tom Trapp, a performance with, now watch this: George Duke and Napoleon Murphy Brock. So for the musicians it is a dark period: on the other hand, good music and good musicians are like water and will always find a way....

UniMuta : Co, you've been a music producer, music director and a radio host for Dutch national radio for as long as I can remember. Since a couple of years, you're one of the people behind Radio 6, an internet radio station. Is the future of music to be found in the digital world? I still like to browse through a booklet while a play a CD, or search for details on a album sleeve while the vinyl takes a spin. Am I an exception?

Co de Kloet : No you are not an exception! I think Vinyl will outlive CD for example. By the way, Radio 6 is NOT an internet station. We are on internet, cable, digital (DAB) and other platforms. The only thing we do not have is FM...but in the near future that will all change anyway..... Radio 6 is growing and presents a broad and intelligent mixture of Soul, Jazz and a lot of crossover areas..... August 12 we will world premiere the new Steve Vai Album in my show (www.colive.radio6.nl and mail me at colive@radio6.nl) , september 2 we have a live concert with the Metropole and Gary Lucas in a programme on the music he did with Jeff Buckley, November 11 we do another show with Todd Rundgren, and so on and so forth....

UniMuta : And do you think that this digitalisation a good or a bad thing for music?

Co de Kloet : The more ways to distribute music the better. as long as we realize that the composers and musicians involved present high quality work and should be paid accordingly. Music Is Not for Free, even in a digital world where copying no longer means loss of quality.

UniMuta :  Wise words. Thank you & see you soon.


Co de Kloet : That's what she said!   (see you at zappanale)


Co de Kloet will be presenting The Supplement Tape Live on Thursday, August 2, 2012, at 13:00 h, at Zappanale.

www.zappanale.de

www.colive.radio6.nl

MIKE KENEALLY - WING BEAT FANTASTIC

Mike Keneally's "Wing Beat Fantastic" arrived yesterday.
It's Wing, it's Beat, it's Fantastic.

http://keneally.com/

Here's 'It's Raining Here, Inside'.

A SHORT CHAT WITH FIFTYII50

from the Zappanale website:

FiftyII50 are a Z-PowerDuo from The Netherlands.

Senne Bergsma (drums/samples/vox) and Marcel Chrétien (guitarsynth/loops/vox) play Bits & Pieces from the ginormous Zappa catalog in their very own way: with Enthusiasm & Electronics, these two guys almost sound like just another band from LA (sometimes...)!

Reason enough to ask them some questions !

UniMuta: Can you tell me a bit more about FiftyII50? How long has the band been around? Have you done any concerts?

Marcel Chrétien: FiftyII50 started out as Fifty50. After I  went to Zappanale in 2010 I was completely blown away, and said to myself: "I want to come back here next year, but as a performer, not only as a visitor". I tried to get a band together --Fifty50-- but I never managed to get a complete line-up.
You know how it goes: just as you've got hold of a percussionist, the bass player bails out, you get a new one, and now the singer doesn't have time anymore, etc., etc.

I was ready to give up and abandon the idea, as I realised that the only constants had been Senne and myself, and we decided to turn the problem into an opportunity. This marked the beginning of FiftyII50, (pronounced as Fifty-fifty, to confuse the Russians) a PowerDuo that pays a trick-or-treat tribute to the music of Frank Zappa!

As a duo, we have rehearsed since late 2011, and done a couple of performances. And now we're about to play at Zappanale! So, we may not have made Zappanale 2011, but 2012 is OK too...

UniMuta: Does Fifty II 50 only play the music of Frank Zappa? Or do you perform music by other composers or original material as well?

Marcel Chrétien: Originally, my idea was to play half FZ, half original material --hence Fifty50.
(You may want to browse

 http://www.mbcembassy.net/content/view/110/57

 for some impressions.)
Currently, FiftyII50 only plays FZ stuff. We intend to play original material as well, but we are still in the process of adapting this to the duo setting.

UniMuta: How did the both of you get acquainted with the music of Frank Zappa?

Marcel Chrétien: When I was 14, I borrowed Hots Rats. I've been hooked ever since. Senne had an FZ chip implanted in his brain by aliens when he was 3.

UniMuta: Gotta love those aliens :-)
Performing the music of Frank Zappa as a duo is not a small task. What is your approach?

Marcel Chrétien: For the content, there is not really one approach: it ranges from singer-songwriter, that is, just playing and singing without backing, via 'classic' looping, so, recording and overdubbing until there is a usable backing track, to downright karaoke, in other words, we start the tape and play along. A returning element however is that somehow, we mostly end up with medleys or collages, rather than with 'complete' songs.

As far as the sound is concerned, I use a guitarsynth, so I am not limited to guitar sounds only, and Senne uses a sample pad, for contributions outside of the realm of percussion.

UniMuta: Being at Zappanale is like wandering around on a different planet. What do you expect?

Marcel Chrétien: We expect to be blown away (again).

UniMuta: Have you seen the line-up? What other bands do you want to see?

Marcel Chrétien: Yes, we have. We want to take in as much as possible. George Duke and Jean-Luc Ponty are obligatory, Magma also. But so is the rest, really...

UniMuta: Can’t wait to see you guys in concert. Thanks for your time. Have fun & see you soon.

FiftyII50 will be performing at Zappanale on Wednesday, August 1, 2012.

THE ZAPPANALE EXHIBITION SPECIAL EVENTS PROGRAM

Dieter Jakob says: 24 juli 23:07 Here we are - here we go: The Zappananale Exhibition Special Events Programm is ready: Mittwoch, 1..August um 10:00 Uhr: Film 'News from the Shark' (2009) Lothar Taube malt live Donnerstag, 2. August um 10:00 Uhr: Film 'Peefeeyatko' (1991) Vortrag Daniel Schröder 'Der Komponist Frank Zappa' Julian & Moni 'Jimmy Carl Black - For Mother's Sake' Freitag, 3. August um 10:00 Uhr Film ‘Your Place or Mine ?’ (2012) Film ‘News from the Shark’ (2009) Pause Film 'Stefan Dohr & Bill Formann über den Yellow Shark' (2012) Film 'The Lost Episodes Phase II' - Wolfgang Stryis Aufnahmen der Proben 1991 (1991) Fried Dähn & Yellow String Quartet / Lothar Taube malt live zur Musik > dann etwa 13:30 Sofagespräch mit Fried Dähn, Michael Gross & Jim Cohen Samstag, 4. August um 10:00 Uhr Film ‘Your Place or Mine ?’ (2012) Film 'The Lost Episodes Phase II' - Wolfgang Stryis Aufnahmen der Proben (1991) Film 'Food Gathering Rehearsals' (1992) Lothar Taube malt live Sonntag, 5. August ab 11:00 Uhr Vollwertfrühstück (Chips & Bier), dazu Filme aus den Vortagen

PHI YAAN-ZEK UPDATE

Phi Yaan-Zek's "Deeper With The Anima" is about to get released.
"Deeper With The Anima" is Phi Yaan-Zek's companion album to his "Dance With The Anima" album, the album he made to Marco Minnemann's drum solo.

Check out Phi Yaan-Zek's website for samples & ordering info:

http://phiyaan-zek.com/albums/albums/deeper.html