CHICKENFOOT

Bummer....
I just found out...

Chickenfoot played at Graspop a couple of days ago.
FYI, Graspop is a hard rock festival, but the funny thing is that it's held maybe 20 kilometers from where I live.

Chickenfoot is the latest (heavy) supergroup and it features one of my favourite guitar players.

Chickenfoot features vocalist Sammy Hagar (ex-Van Halen), bassist Michael "Mikey" Anthony (also ex-Van Halen), guitarist Joe Satriani and drummer Chad Smith (of the Red Hot Chili Peppers).
They even should have an album out...

http://www.chickenfoot.us/

SUN RA - OTHER PLANES OF THERE

• sun ra: other planes of there
  (1992, cd, usa, evidence 22037)

"Other Planes Of These" can also be found in the Evidence re-issue series. It is by many regarded as an essential Sun Ra album.
Not in the least because it shows a side of Sun Ra's music that one does not often encounter.
As Neil Tesser says in the liner notes: "The 20-minute 'Other Planes Of There' suggest a sort of concerto not for one but many soloists."
or
"Dominated by the long and episodic title piece, and marked by structured, almost schematic compositional techniques, "Other Planes" exists outside the rest of Sun Ra's music - in other words, on the other side of out. Think of it as outside squared."

Sun Ra proves that there are no borders between contemporary music, jazz and experimental music.

Essential listening.

SUN RA - ATLANTIS

• sun ra: atlantis
  (1993, cd, usa, evidence 22067)

Originally released in 1969 on Sun Ra's private Saturn label, the "Atlantis" album got a vinyl re-release on Impulse and a CD re-release on Evidence.
It's a quite peculiar album as Sun Ra plays the Hohner Clavinet (the so-called ultimate funk keyboard as Stevie Wonder showed with 'Superstition'), and it's also the first Sun Ra album where there's a lot of African hand percussion.
The odd one out is the title track, 'Atlantis', where the Arkestra takes the experimental approach. Over 20 minutes long, this dark and tense piece is dominated by Sun Ra's organ. It's one big organ solo, accompanied by percussion.
Yummie...

FESTIVAL L'ALEMBIC ELECTRIQUE 2

There's change in the program of the L'Alembique Electrique 2 festival: Peach Noise will replace Project/Object.

2009/08/21 - 2009/08/22"Festival de l'Alambic Electrique 2",Villiers sur Yonne, France

2009/08/21
Gowy
Children Of Invention
Here & Now
Peach Noise

2009/08/22
Jack Dupon
One Shot
Shyamal Maitra / Tehaï
The Grandmothers w/ Roy Estrada, Don Preston, Napoleon Murphy Brock

ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA IN PRAGUE

• 2009/06/01 Zappa Plays Zappa - concert ‘Archa Theatre‘, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC

The concert included a guitar giveaway contest. The above picture shows the winner, jamming with Dweezil.

-- picture: Petr Karlicek

RAINER TANKRED PAPPON TRIO IN CONCERT

ZAPPATIKA UPDATE 2009 06 29

ZAPPATiKA's Strictly Frankly Show hits the road this week in Holland

On Saturday 4th July ZAPPATiKA will play the first in their 2009-2010 series of Frank Zappa Musical Revue Shows which they aptly call STRICTY FRANKLY - a live album of the same name will be released in 2010....
The new show is over two hours long and consists 99% of FZ material ranging from WE ARE NOT ALONE, thru TITTIES N BEER, BLACK NAPKINS,CITY of TINY LITES,a little COZMIK DEBRIS, WATERMELON in EASTER HAY ,SLEEP DIRT,some DIRTY LOVE and a bit of SLIME and a good serving of TORTURE,all of this and much more Howie, all of this and more....

The band has just finished rehearsal of the new show and will perform the first show in the series on Saturday 4th July in Holland at THE RAMBLER, in Eindhoven ~
Dates in France(SEPT09) , Belgium/Holland (OCT09) ,Germany(OCT09) and the UK (NOV09) will be announced soon....

SUN RA - THE MAGIC CITY

• sun ra: the magic city
  (1993, cd, usa, evidence 22069)

In an attempt to feed data to the Sun Ra discography, I also added "The Magic City".
In 1993, Evidence re-released this 1966 "saturn label" vinyl album on CD.
Recorded in 1965 in New York City, the album gives a glimpse of what was happening in NYC at that time. The first track on the album, called 'The Magic City' (which refers to Birmingham, Alabama, Sun Ra's home town), is a 28-minute free jazz collective improvisation.
In its year of release, in the rock corner of the music scene, The Velvet Underground were turning heads, and the Mothers Of Invention released their first album.

I was one year old at the time, living in a small town in Belgium, but it looks like NYC was the place to be...

CHICK COREA & JOHN MCLAUGHLIN

Last year, Chick Corea and John McLaughlin toured Europe with their Five Peace Band.
The band featured Kenny Garrett on sax, Christian McBride on bass, and former Zappa sideman Vinnie Colaiuta on drums.
The album that got released by Concord Jazz / Universal is entitled "Five Peace Band".

AL ORKESTA

Al Orkesta is Joe Higham's band. With Al Orkesta he tries to combine turkish, arabic and klezmer music with western jazz. The band features Jean Paul Estiévenart (from The Wrong Object) on trumpet.
Al Orkestra has released an album entitled "Where Are We Now?". Out on Mogno Music.