THE MIKE KENEALLY BAND WILL BE DOING FOUR CONCERTS IN DECEMBER

the Mike Keneally Band

 Mike Keneally: guitar, keyboards, vocals
 Rick Musallam: guitar

 Joe Travers: drums
 Bryan Beller: bass

Mike Keneally California Tourette 2013

Friday, December 6, 2013

The Baked Potato, Studio City, CA 91604

Tickets: $25 - Doors open: 7:00 p.m.

Showtimes: 9:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.

Saturday, December 7, 2013

The Loft, La Jolla, CA 92093

Tickets: Advance $22.50 - Doors open: 7:30 p.m. Showtime: 8:00 p.m.

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Biscuits & Blues, San Francisco, CA 94102

Tickets: $24 and $20 - Doors open: 5:30 p.m. Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Friday, December 13, 2013

The Jambalaya, Arcata, CA 95521

Tickets: $15 - Doors open: 8:00 p.m. Showtime: 9:00 p.m.

I COME FROM NOWHERE

Zappa Plays Zappa, Amsterdam, 2013 11 09



thanks to unicapb21 !

ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA IN GHENT 2013 11 08

Zappa Plays Zappa, the Ghent concert.

There's nothing like a fine concert to start the weekend.

Last Friday, the Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa band landed at 'De Vooruit' in Ghent. The only disadvantage of a Friday concert is that the biggest part of Belgium turns into one gigantic traffic jam every Friday. We knew, so we arrived well in advance.

As for the concert, it was great. The band played for almost three hours (not counting the 20-minute break). They started with the complete "Roxy" album and continued with a bunch of great songs, including the fabulous 'I Come From Nowhere'.

The band seemed very relaxed and it showed in the performance. One word: fabulous. Did I mention that there was some audience participation as well? People on stage, dancing to the Be-Bop Tango.

I loved it.

The concert ended with 'Muffin Man', and Dweezil sneaked in the intro of another classic in his guitar solo. Now that's what we want to hear!! Yes, humour does belong in music.

line-up

Dweezil Zappa: guitar
Scheila Gonzalez: saxophone, flute, keyboards & vocals
Ben Thomas: vocals, trumpet, trombone, percussion
Chris Norton: keyboards, vocals
Kurt Morgan: bass
Ryan Brown: drums

set one

01 - The Gumbo Variations
02 - Penguin In Bondage
03 - Pygmy Twylyte
04 - Dummy Up
05 - Village Of The Sun
06 - Echidna's Arf (Of You)
07 - Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?
08 - Cheepnis
09 - Son Of Orange County
10 - More Trouble Every Day
11 - Be-Bop Tango (Of The Old Jazzmen's Church)

set two

12 - The Torture Never Stops
13 - Teenage Wind
14 - Teenage Prostitute
15 - The Black Page #1
16 - The Black Page #2
17 - Flakes
18 - Broken Hearts Are For Assholes
19 - Wino Man
20 - I Come From Nowhere
21 - Florentine Pogen

encores

22 - Cosmik Debris

23 - Muffin Man

Saturday, ZpZ performed in Amsterdam.
I wasn't there, but I did receive some nice YouTube links !
Thanks to unicapb21, here's some snippets !!

'Florentine Pogen'


'Cosmik Debris'

'Muffin Man'


'Zomby Woof' with Richard Hallebeek !

'Be-Bop' audience participation

FIDO PLAYS ZAPPA

FiDO at Gare du Nord: Filthy Habits

A little Häppchen from the upcoming video.

DISTURBING THE PEACE

Alcatrazz 1985 "Disturbing The Peace" album featured Steve Vai on guitar.
The album is getting a re-release as a 2CD set and will feature new artwork as well.

RONNIE CUBER IN CONCERT IN RIJKEVORSEL (B) TONIGHT

The Rein de Graff Trio, featuring Ronnie Cuber, will be doing a concert at 'De Singer' jazzclub in Rijkevorsel (Belgium) tonight.

If you can't make it, maybe you should give "Zappa In New York" another spin.

Here's Ronnie Cuber with Bill Evans and Randy Brecker Soulbop project.

ROBERT WYATT - '68

• robert wyatt: '68
      (2013, cd, usa, cuneiform)

Member of the Daevid Allen Trio, The Wild Flowers and Soft Machine.

Solo recording artist and founding member of Matching Mole.

Collaborated with Henry Cow, Hatfield and the North, David Gilmour and Björk to name just a few.

His name is Robert Wyatt and he's one of the founding fathers of the Canterbury scene.

From the Cuneiform website:

In September, 1968, the Soft Machine had just finished their second, exhaustive tour of the USA supporting the Jimi Hendrix Experience. At the conclusion of the tour, vocalist/drummer/multi-instrumentalist Robert Wyatt stayed, working on recordings in Hollywood and New York City. Upon Robert's return to England, these documents lay forgotten...

Now, for the first time, all four of the recordings Robert made in '68 are collected together and released, all carefully worked on and presented in the best possible sound quality - and the recorded sound here is surprisingly excellent overall!

The bulk of the material - the two long suites - were later re-recorded by the Soft Machine; ‘Rivmic Melodie’s later became the basis of side one on Volume II (1969) and ‘Moon In Jun’e showed up as Robert's showcase on Third (1970).

These tracks serve as a template for the post-psychedelic Soft Machine's career as founders of European jazz/rock and the entire release is a precursor to Robert's post-band, solo career.

Out on the Cuneiform label
www.cuneiformrecords.com

Available from Mandaï

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ZAPPANALE 2013 - - - PART THIRTEEN : THE ZAPPANALE EXHIBIT 7”

• various artists: zappanale exhibition 7 inch 2013
      (2013, 7"-promo, ger, arf society)

One of the main attractions of the latest edition of the Zappanale festival was the Zappa 7" exhibit.
And what's the best way to show what such an exhibit is all about? That's right, you release a 7" for the occasion.

limited edition of 300 copies on black, red and grey vinyl

recorded at the zappanale festival, bad doberan, germany

[1] 2002/07/27 wolfhard kutz at zappanale #13

[2] 2003/07/25 the jack and jim show (jimmy carl black & eugene chadbourne) at zappanale #14

[3] 2009/08/16 jim cohen at zappanale #20

[4] 2012/08/03 fried dähn & the yellow string quartet  at zappanale #23

cover art by helmut king

side one

1. wolfhard kutz at zappanale #13: a public service announcement part 1

2. the jack and jim show (jimmy carl black & eugene chadbourne): willie the pimp (frank zappa)

3. jim cohen at zappanale #20: a public service announcement part 2

side two

1. fried dähn & the yellow string quartet at zappanale #23: sofa  (frank zappa)

NDV - KARMA

• ndv: karma
      (2001, cd, ger, ear candy records)

Quite by accident, I came across Nick D'Virgilio's "Karma" album last week. It had been a while since I had listened to it. When I gave it another spin, I noticed that the entry over at the United Mutations Archives was incomplete. For some reason, I hadn't linked Mike Keneally, Bryan Beller and Rick Mussallam to the album.
Rest assured, tt has been fixed.

Here's 'Forgiven', with Rick Mussallam on the guitar.

THE CLAUDIA QUINTET - SEPTEMBER

• the claudia quintet: september
      (2013, cd, usa, cuneiform)

Quirky rhythms, puzzling tempos and nicely layered but unlikely melody-lines.
That can only mean one thing : John Hollenbeck's Claudia Quintet is back !

The release of "September" marks the 15th anniversary of The Claudia Quintet.
If my counting is correct, "September" is the ensemble's 7th album and it's as groundbreaking as the previous ones.
My favourite piece is 'September 29, 1936 : Me Warn You'. It sounds as relevant now as it did then.

Congratulations are in place.

Highly recommended.

Out on the Cuneiform Records label.
www.cuneiformrecords.com

Available from Mandaï.
www.mandai.be