A bit over two months ago, J.M. Smig made the demo recording of one of his latest pieces, 'Zappacrite', available on Soundcloud.
In the meantime, the suite has grown to 3 movements and it is available on Bandcamp.
J.M. added:
Work in progress, rough mix. I've begun the fourth movement, but I have a lot going on in the real world at the moment so I'm publishing the completed portion in the meantime.
Check it out !!
Recommended listening.
The fun part is when Ahmet has AF (artificial Frank) answer a question.
Moon Zappa is touring the world.
November 1, 2024, Moon will be at Crossing Border, a literature and music festival in The Hague, The Netherlands.
https://www.crossingborder.nl/
And one day earlier, on October 31, 2024, Moon will be at the Belgian edition of Crossing Border, in Antwerp, Belgium.
https://www.crossingborder.be/
Dutch guitar player and composer Corrie van Binsbergen composed the music for "Apollo", a (Dutch) theater show for kids, performed by the RAAF music theater and the Rotterdam Philharmonic.
A recording of the show is available as a download-only audiobook.
https://raafmuziektheater.nl/luisterboek-apollo/
Corrie put up some fragments on her Soundcloud page :
https://soundcloud.com/corrie-van-binsbergen/sets/apollo-rotterdams
The Banned From Utopia will be doing 6 Halloween shows at The Baked Potato.
Wednesday Oct 30, Thursday Oct 31, and Friday Nov 1, 2024
Three times two shows. That's 6 shows in total.
at The Baked Potato
https://www.thebakedpotato.com/events-calendar/
https://www.zappanews.co.uk/diary
BANNED from UTOPIA plays ZAPPA
RAY WHITE …VOCALS/GUITAR
ROBERT MARTIN …VOCALS/KEYS/SAX
SCOTT THUNES …BASS
CHAD WACKERMAN …DRUMS
JAMIE KIME …GUITAR
MIKE MILLER …GUITAR
Here are the spoilers:
01 stage entrance
02 Heavy Duty Judy
03 Don't Eat the Yellow Snow
04 Nanook Rubs It
05 St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast
06 Approximate - part 1
07 Approximate - part 2
08 Approximate - part 3
09 Inca Roads
10 Pygmy Twylyte - with snippets of "The Cantina Song", "Fly Like an Eagle", "Space Truckin'", "Imperial Theme"
11 The Idiot Bastard Son
12 Dickie's Such an Asshole
13 Echidna's Arf (Of You) - with Adam Minkoff
14 Don't You Ever Wash That Thing? - with snippets of "Thunder Road", "Stormy Weather"
15 Call Me
16 Born in the U.S.A.
17 Livin' on a Prayer
18 intro to Punky's Whips
19 Punky's Whips
20 Cosmik Debris - with Adam Minkoff
21 Happy Birthday to You - for Dweezil
22 Semi-Fraudulent/Direct-From-Hollywood Overture
23 A Pound for a Brown on the Bus - with snippets of "The Heart of Rock & Roll", "Ghostbusters", "Uptown Girl", "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me"
24 Cheepnis
25 "Early Days" Medley - Hungry Freaks, Daddy / You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here / Harry, You're a Beast / Oh No / Son of Orange County / The Orange County Lumber Truck / More Trouble Every Day - with snippets of "Two Tickets to Paradise", "Paradise City", "Stayin' Alive"
Skip the (less interesting) stuff and go straight to 26:00
The Flat Earth Society Orchestra has made two of the older albums available through Bandcamp.
Flat Earth Society: "Minoes", from 2001
Flat Earth Society: "Answer Songs" from 2008
