THE DEVIANTS - ON YOUR KNEES EARTHLINGS !!!

• the deviants: on your knees earthlings!!!
      (2001, cd, usa, total energy ner3031)

Mick Farren (of Deviants fame) recorded Frank Zappa's 'Trouble Coming Every Day' and released it in 1978 on his "Vampires Stole My Lunch Money" album.
The Deviants released it on "Human Garbage" in 1984.

The track can also be found on the excellent "On Your Knees Earthlings !!!" sampler that got released in 2001.
The album does include a number of unreleased tracks as well, one of which is Dylan's 'It's All Right Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)'.

THE NORWEGIAN RADIO ORCHESTRA - PERFECT STRANGERS

• the norwegian radio orchestra: perfect strangers
      (2014, sacd, nor, lawo)

On "Perfect Strangers", The Norwegian Radio Orchestra and conductor Thomas Sondergard present a recording of the February 11, 2010, concert that the orchestra did in Oslo.
At this concert, the ensemble present works by Heiner Goebbels and by Frank Zappa.

Heiner Goebbels 'Suite For Sampler And Orchestra From Surrogate Cities' is performed next to Frank Zappa's 'Dog / Meat', 'Dupree's Paradise', 'The Perfect Stranger', 'G-Spot Tornado' and 'Revised Music For Low Budget Orchestra'.
This is good. This is very good.

I've been listening to the album with my headphones on and the sound is excellent. Especially the percussion sounds superb.
I definitely need to hear this through my stereo speakers.
That'll most likeley be something for tomorrow.

Essential listening !!

KVHW - LIVE AT THE LIP

Browsing Ray White's entry at the United Mutations Archives, I noticed that I was still missing the data for one of his KVHW albums.

From early 1998 until December 1999, Ray toured and recorded with KVHW: Steve Kimock, Bobby Vega, Alan Hertz and Ray White, hence KVHW.
KVHW released two albums. A first one called "9/28/1998 And 10/24/1998", and a second one entitled "Live At The Lip". It seems that this second album was a CDR-release that was only made available on tour in 1999 and through the Jambase shop for about two weeks around the same time.

I did find a tracklist on the web, but I could sure use a nice scan of the album cover.
Or the actual album. It has been on want-list for almost 15 years now.

ELISA FISHER - IKE WILLIS MEETS THE CATHOLIC GIRLS

• elisa fisher: ike willis meets the catholic school girls
      (2012, download, --, elisa fisher / aquarian)

Los Angeles based singer-songwriter Elisa Fisher released a download-only album in 2012 entitled "Ike Willis Meets The Catholic School Girls".
As one might expect Ike Willis took part in the recording of this album, as did his former Zappa-band colleague Ray White.
I haven't heard the album, but the soundsamples that can be found (on CDBaby) do not exactly sound zappa-esque... Furthermore, Ike can only be heard on two of the tracks and Ray just on one.

Data have been added to the United Mutations Archives.
Thanks to franktomatozappa from mentioning this release on the Zappateers forum.

ZAPPERLOT! 2014

Just got back from the Zapperlot! festival in Switzerland.
3 days of excellent music and friendly people.

Actually, we're back a little bit sooner than expected, but that's all due to the fact that one of us had a little accident descending the Riggisalp on a 'trottinette géante"...
(http://www.schwarzsee.ch/fr/aventure-trottinette-geante.html)
Nothing broken. Just a lot of bruises.
And, no, it wasn't me.

But Zapperlot! was nice. Very nice.
Let me get back to that later.

AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR CHRIS RASCHKA MADE A CHILDREN'S BOOK ABOUT SUN RA

Chris Raschka has already written children's books on John Coltrane, Charlier Parker and Thelonious Monk.
Next up is a book about Sun Ra.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/there-once-was-jazz-musician-saturn-180952112/?no-ist

THE SUN RA ARKESTRA - LIVE IN NICKELSDORF 1984

• sun ra arkestra: live in nickelsdorf 1984
      (2014, 3cd, austria, trost 118)

March 11, 1984, The Sun Ra Arkestra performed a 2-hour plus show in Nickelsdorf.
This 3 CD set is a recording of the complete concert. And it's an excellent concert, if I may say so.

Great tunes and fine improvisations.
Stunning artwork.
Out on the Trost record label.

Here's a more recent performance of 'Discipline 27-II', The Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of Marshal Allan.

THE RESIDENTS - THE HIGHWAY

• the residents: walk-in for shadowland - the highway
      (2014, cd, usa, the cryptic corporation)

"The Residents present A Charles Bobuck Contraption - The Highway".

6 tracks.
Walk-in music for the Shadowland concerts.
Percussive patterns and soundscapes.
Beautiful.

The liner notes (translated from Spanish) say something like:
"The highway.
Many decades ago, I hitchhiked from my childhood home in Texas to my new home in San Francisco. The dramatic desert landscape fascinated me and I then decided that the trip would be a good source for a musical interpretation.
Unfortunately, the music that I wrote did not represent the journey so I abandoned the idea long ago.
This is not the music that I wrote at that time. But I find it convenient to pretend that it is."
-- Carlos Bobuck

A GARY LUCAS UPDATE

Gary Lucas' latest project is called "Fleischerei".
It puts the music of Max Fleischer in the spotlight.

Fleischerei: Music from Max Fleischer's Betty Boop & Popeye Cartoons

Gary Lucas- 1946 Gibson J-45 acoustic
Sarah Stiles ("Into the Woods")--vocals
Joe Fiedler (Fast 'N' Bulbous)--trombone & ensemble arrangements

with Jeff Lederer-reeds Rob Jost--acoustic bass Michael Sarin--drums

SUN RA ON ITUNES

Is there a better way to compare the new iTunes releases with the original recordings?

from the Saturn newsgroup :

http://sunraarkive.blogspot.com/2014/08/mastering-comparison-and-review-of-2014_9.html

Sun Ra Arkive continues its review and mastering comparison of the new 2014 "Mastered for iTunes" releases via iTunes, with our next installment of 4 titles. Michael "The Good Doctor" Anderson (http://sunraarchive.webstarts.com/), Irwin Chusid (http://irwin.wfmu.org/), and Sun Ra LLC utilized new hi-res transfers from the master tapes where available and, as you can hear, the results are a uniformly excellent improvement from previous releases of this music.

Buy the Official Sun Ra iTunes Remasters at https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/sun-ra/id72824

http://www.mixcloud.com/SunRaArkive/sun-ra-mastering-comparison-for-astro-black-from-astro-black-19720507-rlc2-192/

Sun Ra Mastering comparison for Astro Black from Astro Black (19720507 RLC2 192 El Saturn Studios; Chicago, IL)

00:00:00 - 04:46:00 ABC/Impulse LP

04:46:00 - 10:54:00 Mastered for iTunes Remaster 2014

http://www.mixcloud.com/SunRaArkive/sun-ra-mastering-comparison-for-black-man-from-universe-in-blue/

Sun Ra Mastering comparison for Black Man from Universe In Blue [19710800 RLC2 179 El Saturn Records ESR 200 Probably recorded at Slugs Saloon; New York, NY]

00:00:00 - 00:47:00 Original Saturn LP

00:47:00 - 01:21:40 Scorpio LP

01:21:40 - 02:24:50 Mastered for iTunes Remaster 2014

http://www.mixcloud.com/SunRaArkive/sun-ra-mastering-comparison-for-its-limbo-time-from-roz-croney-how-low-can-you-go/

Sun Ra Mastering comparison for It's Limbo Time from Roz Croney "How Low Can You Go?" [19630100 RLC2 105 Mastertone Studios on 42nd Street between 6th and 7th Avenue; New York, NY]

00:00:00 - 01:00:60 Original Dauntless DS 6309 Stereo LP

01:00:60 - 02:01:60 iTunes Remaster from Original Dauntless LP 2014

http://www.mixcloud.com/SunRaArkive/sun-ra-mastering-comparison-for-planet-earth-from-sun-ra-visits-planet-earth/

Sun Ra Mastering comparison for Planet Earth from Sun Ra Visits Planet Earth [19561101-19580000 RLC2 38, 43, 33, 45 Chicago, IL]

00:00:00 - 01:11:60 Original Saturn LP

01:11:60 - 02:08:10 Evidence CD

02:08:10 - 03:36:60 Scorpio Reissue LP

03:36:60 - 04:57:20 Mastered for iTunes Remaster 2014

 

Sincerely,

Christopher Eddy from Sun Ra Arkive