POMEGRANATE TIGER

Pomegranate Tiger, performing Frank Zappa's 'The Black Page'.

https://pomegranatetiger.bandcamp.com/track/the-black-page

BOB ZAPPA IS WRITING A BOOK ABOUT HIS BROTHER

Bob Zappa's book on growing up with Frank should get published this summer.

http://www.thefix.com/content/all-new-frank-zappa-stories-surface

DEAN KRAFT

You probably read or heard this before, but just in case that you didn't...

'Energy healer' Dean Kraft on treating Frank Zappa.

http://www.deankrafthealer.com/CaseHistory-FrankZappa.html

FRANK ZAPPA - DANCE ME THIS

• frank zappa: dance me this
      (2015, cd, usa, zappa records zr20018)

Album #100 in the official Frank Zappa discography.

"And what I'm working on right at the moment, is a synclavier album called "Dance Me This", which is designed to be used by modern dance groups.
It's probably not going to come out until next year".
-- FZ, guitarist magazine, june 1993

So it took a while, but it was worth the wait.

Here's a couple of excellent reviews:

http://www.zappateers.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=29692

https://rhoerer.wordpress.com/2015/07/07/dance-me-this/

DWALMACAT 612

This week's Dwalmacat radio show.
Click and listen.

https://www.mixcloud.com/Dwalmacat/dwalmacat-612/

MARK STEWART & THE MAFFIA – Learning to cope with cowardice
STARTLED INSECTS – Black spring
JAAKKO EINO KALEVI – Say
THOMAS LEER – Private plane
POND – Zond
MELT BANANA – Creeps in a white cake
HOT CHOCOLATE – Every one’s a winner
MUPPET SHOW – A monologue by Fozzie Bear
RIMARIMBA – Couldn’t top the demo
FAT MASONICS – Fat masonics
PERCY FAITH – Theme from ‘a summer place’
THE BEATLES – Savoy truffle
NEW YORK GONG – Jungle windo(w)
BRUCE HAACK – Moonlight and roses
PATRICK GLEESON – Unacceptable dance styles
GURU GURU – Immer lustig (Excerpt)
BLUR – Ghost ship

R.STEVIE MOORE

R. Stevie Moore's fourth album, "What's The Point?!!", was originally released on vinyl by the Cuneiform label in 1984.

It has been re-issued on CD by Cuneiform.

http://www.cordeliarecords.co.uk/

MODERN DRUMMER

"Modern Drummer Classic Tracks" is a book / learning tool for the contemporary drummer. It contains transcriptions of thirteen tracks (some never before in print!) recorded by some of the most important contemporary drummers in rock and fusion.
Softcover / Spiral Bound / 84 Pages

In these pages, you'll find the exact drum parts recorded on tracks that drummers have been inspired by since their release. Artists featured include Carter Beauford, John Bonham, Terry Bozzio, Vinnie Colaiuta, Phil Collins, Stewart Copeland, Steve Gadd, Keith Moon, Neil Peart, Simon Phillips, Jeff Porcaro, Mike Portnoy, and Steve Smith. Includes great photos and backgrounds on each of these drummer's drummers.

Terry Bozzio ? Vinnie Colaiuta ?
Nice.
Wonder which pieces they picked.

JIMI TENOR & UMO

Finnish label Herakles Records has released "Mysterium Magnum" by Jimi Tenor and UMO.

"...an instrumental album with the de facto Finnish national big band, UMO Jazz Orchestra. UMO is a professional 16-piece orchestra specializing in jazz and contemporary rhythm music. Throughout its history UMO has had a focus on Finnish composers and has performed hundreds of compositions that were made especially for UMO. Jimi Tenor is a Finnish composer and performing artist perhaps best known for his electronic music from the '90s. "Mysterium Magnum" is his first album composed entirely for a big band. In 2003 Jimi Tenor took his own big band on a six-week European tour, which included stops at Montreux Jazz and North Sea Jazz Festival. Jimi Tenor then made three albums with afrobeat group Kabukabu: Joystone (2007, Sähkö), 4th Dimension (2008, Sähkö), and The Mystery of Aether (2012, Kindred Spirits); and in 2009, Jimi Tenor made an album with afrobeat legend Tony Allen called Inspiration Information (Strut). Mysterium Magnum was! recorded at UMO's rehearsal space at the YLE studios in Helsinki. The music on Mysterium Magnum is not typical big band music. It varies from mystical contemporary compositions like "Koneen Sydän," "Huumatun Pako," "Mysticum Minus," and "Sähköinen Laji" to soundtrack themes like "Kratera" and "I Was Here." On the album Jimi Tenor himself plays a Russian Ritm-2 synthesizer, tenor saxophone, and flute. All compositions and arrangements by Jimi Tenor."

In 1997, The Umo Jazz Orchestra did a Zappa tribute concert with special guest Ed Palermo.
They released a (promotional) Zappa mini album in 2003.

2007/2008 Jimi Tenor did a series of concerts with FES (Flat Earth Society).

NEW BEEFHEART ALBUM ON THE OZIT LABEL

It's called "Batlight Clearkid".
2LP, limited edition of 1000 copies on 180 g yellow vinyl.

BEYONCE'S STEVIE WONDER TRIBUTE