THE LEX BRONKOWITZ ORCHESTRA

Lex Bronkowitz Orchestra plays the music of Frank Zappa
June 5, 2015 @ Kulturcafe Lichtung, Cologne, Germany

LUC BREWAYS

Contemporary composer Luc Breways, who arranged Frank Zappa's music for the Trio Cucamonga way back in 1990, recently wrote a piece that was inspired by Stravinsky's 'Mass' (W87).

The premiere of the piece is tonight at 'De Singel' in Antwerp, B.

https://www.desingel.be/nl/programma/muziek/10503/Collegium-Vocale-Gent-I-Solisti-del-Vento-olv-Philippe-Herreweghe

RANDY BRECKER

Randy Brecker is said to have played on 1500 albums.
He only performed with Frank Zappa at the Palladium for four nights in a row in December 1976, but the results can be found on three Zappa albums.

May 2012, Randy invited a bunch of friends to perform a number of 'popular' tunes that he had recorded in his long career. In concert, at the Blue Note.
The concert included a Zappa piece (although I don't know which one).

"Randy Pop" has tunes from this concert. Unfortunately, it does not include any Zappa pieces.

Album cover and track list  have been added to the United Mutations Archives.

ANDERSON PONTY BAND

The band has been touring for a couple of years and finally released their first album.
Jon Anderson and Jean-Luc Ponty.

Album covers have been added to the United Mutations Archives.

CD cover, european edition

CD cover, american edition
also the cover art for the CD/DVD "deluxe edition".

FRANK ZAPPA - MASKED TURNIP CYCLOPHONY

• frank zappa: masked turnip cyclophony
      (2015, cd, uk, gonzo multimedia)

In 2010, Greg Russo unleashed 35 (yes, thirty-five) albums worth of Paul Buff and Frank Zappa related material on the unsuspecting world. As a download series.
The package was entitled "Pal and Original Sound Studio Archives" and it showcased sthe earliest recording session of Paul Buff and Frank Zappa.

In 2012, Greg Russo released a 5 CD-set that collected material from his previous download lot on his Crossfire Publications record label.

UK label Gonzo Multimedia has now destilled one CD out of the enormous package, focussing on the Frank  Zappa related recordings.

http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/search/product_details/15863/Frank_Zappa-Masked_Turnip_Cyclophony_(Rare_and_Wonderful_Gems_from_the_Pal_Studio_Archives).html
 

CAPTAIN CHEESE-BEARD

• captain cheese-beard: symphony for auto horns
      (2015, cd, bel, mottow soundz) - feat. robert martin

Introduction to Captain CheeseBeard by Joeri Cardon (English version)

To boldly go where no man has gone before…not only the classic and over-used slogan from an innovative TV-series, but also a phrase used by pleasantly surprised music lovers. We’re talking about fans and critics who want to reward an artist or band who make sport of straying from the well-trodden path of playing music that you will find on the playlists of the average ‘Fun and Hits’ radio stations. Bands like Captain Cheese-Beard for example….Captain Cheese-Beard? You already get the notion from the Band’s name that they are not going to be playing at Tomorrowland to foreign visitors who have flown in specially for the event.

To baptise yourself with a name like Captain Cheese-beard indicates not only a healthy ability to laugh at everything but also the desire to race through the current musical landscape with an ever present threat of adventure. This setup has been built to last in a world where music lovers want to feel the music in the hair on the back of necks, after they have been sent on a wild and amusing goose-chase.

Captain Cheese-Beard hails from Brussels, the closest thing to a metropolis that this drive through country in the centre of Europe has to offer, and that comes through in the music: Brussels, where cultures collide before embracing, where influences change with each bar or club that you pass. Where you can cycle from one musical neighbourhood to another equally exotic or uniquely enriched one, where silence is as unusual as hearing Synthpop on a Captain Beefheart Album (to praise another musical Captain). We are just saying: whoever is making music in the rest of Belgium, it doesn’t sound like Captain Cheese-Beard, not one bit!

So can we hear some of this Band’s music?

Yes! It took a while but this summer saw the release of Captain Cheese-Beard’s debut album “Symphony for auto-horns” (released on Mottow Soundz), It is a collection of music that when first listened to, leads to some delightful confusion. Nothing to come out of Belgium sounds like this album, the band’s leader and composer, Johan De Coninck, who is as unconventional as the music, sees it as his personal mission to supply us mortals with an insane and broody pot pourri of Progrock, solid funk, soul, funk rock, acid jazz, spacerock, dub, Zappalike Rock’n Roll and a handful of genres that your Grandmother might vaguely remember, which not only leaves you with a mellow feeling, but also the desire to listen to the whole thing again, then again and then again. From the ingenious opener ‘Avoid the humanoid’ through the instant classics of ‘Tash and a guitar’ or ‘Righeousness and wieners’ which take hold of you and don’t let go.

De Coninck has surrounded himself with 9 fabulous musicians, amongst whom a fantastic female singer (Vanessa Spay) and a boatload of horns. We mention this just to underline that as a live act Captain Cheese-Beard is a multi-headed monster that only leaves the stage when the collective audience has had their socks blown off. They have mainly been playing in Brussels but they are ready and able to ‘Boldly go where lesser bands fear to tread’… and rock the socks of the rest of the country.

Captain Cheese-Beard,…they are not likely to become chart-toppers, but as far as fun goes you will be spoilt by this highly talented and somewhat quirky, band. It won’t be too long before the first foreign fans are flying in specially for the treat of a Cheese-Beard show. Welcome them in a typical Brussels fashion: with open arms and unashamed quirkiness;

http://www.mottowsoundz.com/cs-symphone-for-autohorns

GEORGE DUKE RE-ISSUES

George Duke's "Master Of The Game" (from 1979) and "A Brazilian Love Affair" (from 1980) have been re-issued on 180 g vinyl by the Music On Vinyl label.

ZAPPA'S "ROXY THE MOVIE" TRACKLISTING

Still scheduled to be released on October 30.
On DVD, on DVD/CD and on Blu-Ray.

Here's the tracklisting.

DVD
1) Cosmik Debris
2) Medley: Penguin In Bondage / T'Mershi Duween / The Dog Breath Variations / Uncle Meat / RDNZL
3) Inca Roads
4) Medley: Echidna's Arf (Of You) / Don't You Ever Wash That Thing / Cheepnis - Percussion
5) Cheepnis
6) Medley: I'm The Slime / Big Swifty
7) Be-Bop Tango (Of The Old Jazzman's Church)
8) Don't Eat The Yellow Snow
9) Father O'Blivion

CD
1) Something Terrible Has Happened...
2) Cosmik Debris
3) Medley: Penguin In Bondage / T'Mershi Duween / The Dog Breath Variations / Uncle Meat / RDNZL
4) Medley: Echidna's Arf (Of You) / Don't You Ever Wash That Thing / Cheepnis - Percussion
5) Cheepnis
6) Be-Bop Tango (Of The Old Jazzman's Church)

DWALMACAT 620

This week on Dwalmacat radio..

https://www.mixcloud.com/Dwalmacat/dwalmacat-620/

• NEGATIVLAND – The Playboy channel / Car bomb
• BEASTIE BOYS – Benny and the Jets
• THE BEATLES – You know my name (look up the number)
• EUGENE CHADBOURNE – Purple haze (acoustic)
• DIE FORM – Caresse
• THE AMAZING SNAKEHEADS – Can’t let you go
• SNAKEFINGER & THE VESTAL VIRGINS – Eva’s warning (Live in Chicago)
• AMOS & CREW – Tokyo golden night
• CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND – Owed t’ Alex
• E.L.O. - Evil woman
• ARBEID ADELT! - Schuld? Mij treft geen!
• ASMUS TIETCHENS – Sauberland
• PTÔSE PRODUCTIONS – Ignobles limaces
• PYE CORNER AUDIO – Void bound
• THE GRIEF – Daedalus (excerpt)
• DR. ALIMENTADO – Plead I cause
• CURTIS MAYFIELD – Junkie chase (Instrumental)
• RIDE – Drive blind
• KETTY LESTER – Moscow nights

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE IN CONCERT IN BRUSSELS

Acid Mothers Temple will be performing at 'Magasin 4' in Brussels on October 3, 2015.
with ?Alos and Jesus is My Son

http://www.magasin4.be/