HOLY SHIT KENNY

Frank Zappa Acapella - Sofa
Composed by Frank Zappa
Singing, Vocal Arrangement, Video Script, by Kenny Malloy



and the sequel

RACHEL FLOWERS WITH ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA

Dweezil meets Rachel Flowers at NAMM 2015 !


Rachel Flowers performing the Frank Zappa song "Montana" with Dweezil Zappa and the Zappa Plays Zappa Band. 25 April 2015 at Brooklyn Bowl Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada

ELAKELAISET - HUMPPA-AKATEMIA

• elakelaiset: humppa-akatemia
      (2000, 2cd, finland, twincd 50)

1997 saw the release of Elakelaiset's "Humppa Till We Die 2000" album. It included a Finnish humppa version Frank Zappa's 'Bobby Brown'.

The "Humppa-Akatemia" compilation album also included this track.
As you might have imagined, the humppa version of Zappa's 'Bobby Brown' is called 'Humppasusi Ruotsissa'.

Here's 'Barbie Girl' in humppa...

and, of course, 'Bobby Brown'...

NAVANAX

From "Civilization Phaze III"

LAZULI ON TOUR

Lazuli on tour

01.05.2015 Colos-saal / Aschaffenburg (GERMANY)
02.05.2015 L'Entr'Pot / Audun Le Tiche (57/ FRANCE)
20.06.2015 Salle Baptiste Dufeu / Péage de Roussillon (38/ FRANCE)
18.07.2015 LORELEY Night of the prog / Amphitheater St. Goarshausen (GERMANY)
05.09.2015 QUADRIFONIC Festival / Maison pour tous / CHADRAC (43/ FRANCE)
19.09.2015 ELEVEN ROCK FESTIVAL / Kulturfabrik Kofmehl / 4500 Solothurn (SWITZERLAND)
29.10.2015 Zephyr Lounge / LEAMINGTON SPA (UNITED KINGDOM)
30.10.2015 St. John's Church / FARNCOMBE (UNITED KINGDOM)
31.10.2015 The Wesley Center / MALTBY (UNITED KINGDOM)
01.11.2015 The Zanzibar Club / LIVERPOOL (UNITED KINGDOM)

Z.E.R.O. - MONEY? WHAT MONEY?

• z.e.r.o.: money? what money?
      (2015, cd, uk, cordelia)

My first encounter with Z.E.R.O. (the Zappa Early Renaissance Orchestra) dates back to 2014 when I heard their contribution to "Rare Episodes", an album that got compiled by Andrew Greenaway and that presented various bands and ensembles performing a number of rather obscure Frank Zappa compositions. Z.E.R.O. had added 'Variant #1" to the album, on guitar and ukulele. A friendly encounter it was.

We're one year later now and the Zappa Early Renaissance Orchestra has released a full album. Their first. And it's out on Cordelia Records.
The CD i entitled "Money? What Money?", and Kevin Crosby and Rupert Kettle (the dynamic duo behind ZERO) did a great job.

"Money? What Money?" features an impressive bunch of musicians. Two of the most amazing ones are Juliana Brandon and Kevin's collegue from Pojama People, Alli Bach. Both add some fine vocals to a number of tracks.
Also noteworthy (understatement !!) is the presence of Prairie Prince, drummer (and painter) who has recorded with The Tubes, Tom Waits and Phil Lesh !

Fine arrangements, great musicianship and funny as well.
What else does one need.
Essential listening!!

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

The album is also available through CDBaby:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/thezappaearlyrenaissance
(where you can also listen to some samples)

VARIOUS ARTISTS - BLORP ESETTE GAZETTE VOLUME TWO

• various artists: the blorp esette gazette - volume two - winter 2014
      (2014, cd, usa, transparency)

Lack of time (the Force has me working in the garden and stuff...) had me talking about this release way too briefly.
Here's another attempt.

In 1977, the LAFMS = Los Angeles Free Music Society released the first of two vinyl albums that collected experimental music.
This first album had artwork by Don Van Vliet and Ace Farren Ford and included music by Smegma and The Residents to name two.
The second album (from 1980) was a 2LP set. Also with Don Van Vliet artwork and even more strange and beautiful music.

Last year, Ace Farren Ford and the Transparency label decided that time was right to continue the series. This time on CD.
Volume two includes contributions by Ju Suk Reet Meate (performing Donnie Vliet's 'Sugar n' Spikes'), Smegma, Skip Heller (!!), Rick Potts, Clown Car, the late Electric Bill Robinson and many more.
The liner notes include extra info on the artists!

Experimental !!

http://www.lafms.com/

MANDRE - MANDRE

• mandre: mandre
      (2015, cd, ??, fever dream fd-cd-7507)

If I'm not mistaken, I mentioned this excellent re-release about two weeks ago.Spacy midnight funk, soul and disco. Includes the Zappa-written 'Dirty Love' and the Andre 'Mandre' Lewis / Johnny Guitar Watson collaboration 'Masked Marauder'.

Mandre was a group that Andre Lewis started in 1977 as a continuation of the gospel/soul group "Maxayn" which was named after the lead singer Maxayn Lewis, Andre's wife. While the Maxayn group had been playing gospel and soul with Maxayn Lewis on lead vocals, the Mandre group was Andre's project to add electronic elements and also shift the sound toward more spacey funk and disco. Andre also played keyboards for Frank Zappa, Buddy Miles, LaBelle, Earth Wind and Fire, Huey Lewis, Edwin Starr, Charles Wilson and the Gap Band, Sly Stone, Bobby Womack, Johnny Guitar Watson and a handful of others. He was also a tester of Roland products and was one of the first musicians to record with the infamous Roland TR-808 drum machine.

THE RUBBERS OF PREVENTION

Hans (Gruppo Sportivo) Vandenburg's Rubbers Of Prevention band did a couple of Zappa tribute concerts in 1996 / 1997.

RACHEL FLOWERS

April 25, 2015, Rachel Flowers sat in with the Zappa Plays Zappa band during their concert at the 'Brooklyn Bowl' in Las Vegas.

I'm waiting for some video material to surface, but in the meantime, we can all check out Rachel's superb Soundcloud page:

https://soundcloud.com/tags/rachel%20flowers