CLAUDIO NUÑEZ COVERS BEEFHEART

Claudio Nuñez recorded an instrumental version of Captain Beefheart's 'Harry Irene' for this "Ayler's Cry" album.

 

PIERRE VERVLOESEM - ELECTRONICACA

Pierre Vervloesem's latest music adventure is called "Electronicaca".

Says Pierre about his album: "Electronicaca is like all my albums directed by a rule (a different one each time), this time a very simple recipe: non-vintage synths, non-vintage rhythm boxes, and playing on the keyboard which cannot be very sophisticated since I don't know how to play the keyboard (as normally for me, the keyboards are played on my midi guitar). The electronica music is like a photo, everyone can take a photo!"

 

MISS MERCY

 Miss Mercy wrote a book.

Mercy Fontenot ran away to the Haight-Ashbury at sixteen in 1965. In 1967, citing that the Haight was getting boring and she couldn’t stay a hippie forever, Fontenot moved to Los Angeles, where she met Frank Zappa and Pamela Des Barres and fell in with the GTOs, an all-female band whose album Permanent Damage was released in 1969. The two songs she wrote for the band were eventually recorded by Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart, and Lowell George.

In the late-70s, after marrying and divorcing Shuggie Otis, she reinvented herself, doing punk hair and styling for bands like the Rockats and Gears and then influencing the roots-rock scene. After falling on hard times, she finally got sober and wrote her story. Permanent Damage is her memoir, published posthumously in 2021.

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD

Concert broadcast on YouTube :
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Live at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney, Australia, April 22nd 2021

JUICY LUCY

Beat Goes On Records has re-released three Juicy Lucy albums on one CD: "Juicy Lucy" + "Lie Back And Enjoy It" + "Get A Whiff A This".

• juicy lucy: juicy lucy / lie back and enjoy it / get a whiff a this
      (2021, 2cd, uk, beat goes on)

"Lie Back" includes Juicy Lucy's take on FZ's 'Willie The Pimp', originally released in 1970.

FLAT EARTH SOCIETY - BOGGAMASTA III

• flat earth society: boggamasta III
      (2021, 2lp, bel, igloo)

The sequel to Flat Earth Society's "Boggamasta" is aptly called "Boggamasta III".
The high quality digital download got released a couple of days ago. The LP will be released next month.

Eye/ear-catching is the addition of female vocals (Berlinde Deman (tuba) & Pauline Leblond (trumpet)) to the typical  FES modern big band sound.

Beautiful.
Must-hear.

You can check it out over at the Igloo website:

https://www.igloorecords.be/album/boggamastaiii-flat-earth-society/?lang=en

WOULD YOU LIKE A SNACK?

Extra ! Extra ! Read all about it here:

http://www.idiotbastard.com/200Motels.htm?

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of 200 Motels later this year, the IBS (Andrew) asked many of those scheduled to appear at the cancelled 2021 edition of Festival MOO-AH – plus several chums, old and new – to record a selection of choice cuts from FZ’s opus for a new album on Cordelia Records.

ZPZ MEETS TOOL PLAYS KC

The Danny Carey Trio performing King Crimson's "One More Red Nightmare" live at Stumpfest 8 at Mississippi Studios in Portland, OR on April 20th 2019.

Danny Carey - Drums
Jamie Kime - Guitar
Pete Griffin - Bass
Joel Robinow - Keys
Ben Thomas - Vocals

-- info : Harald Häring

SHANKAR - DARLENE

Darlene is a song I wrote for my solo album “ Touch Me There “ in 1979 produced by Frank Zappa for Zappa Records. This is a different version I recently did.
-- Shenkar (aka L.Shankar, Shankar)

-- info: Harald Häring

MAGMA TOURDATES

Magma on tour.
France and Belgium.
October and November 2021

https://www.magmamusic.org/en/tour/