THE LEX BRONKOWITZ ORCHESTRA IN CONCERT IN COLOGNE ON JUNE 5

Cologne, Germany, might just be the place to be on the 5th of June, 2015, as The Lex Bronkowitz Orchestra will be doing a concert at the 'Lichtung' club.

Lex Bronkowitz Orchestra
June 5, 2015
KULTURCAFE LICHTUNG
Ubierring 13
D-50678 Köln
Germany

FIDO PLAYS ZAPPA * * * THIS AFTERNOON IN BASEL

Fido Plays Zappa will be performing in Basel, Switzerland, this afternoon.

Liebe Leute
FiDO geht baden: Diesen So 31.Mai um 17h im Marina, Uferstrasse, 4057 Basel, Switzerland.

SUN RA'S HELIOCENTRIC WORLDS

ESPDISC is re-releasing both volumes of Sun Ra's "Heliocentric Worlds" to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the release of the original albums.

CHRISTOPHE GODIN & GUTHRIE GOVAN

GNÔ - CRASS PALACE

• gnô: crass palace
      (2013, cd, france, sene the wood music)

Christophe Godin might have put the Gnô project on hold shortly after the release of this album, but "Crass Palace" is a very enjoyable album.

Gaby Vegh on bass and vocals, Christophe Godin on guitar and vocals, and Julien Rousset on drums and percussion.
Guitar oriented heavy metal pop.

ANOTHER ZAPPA RADIO SHOW RELEASED ON CD

the promo talk :
With the success of his Apostrophe and Roxy & Elsewhere albums, 1974 saw Frank Zappa at his commercial peak. Evidently feeling a surfeit of goodwill towards his fans, at the close of the year he prepared a personally mixed reel of live performances from the previous year for broadcast on WLIR-FM in Garden City, New York on New Year’s Eve. Not to be confused with a show he was playing the same night in Long Beach, California, this is a typically adventurous and humorous compilation, and is presented here with background notes and images.

1. announcer's introduction
2. zappa's introduction - aka tango chat (wayne, nj, 1973/11/11)
3. pygmy twylyte / dummy yp (with irma coffee, location & date unknown)
4. be-bop tang excerpt (location & date unknown)
5. the story of dupree's paradise (nyc, 1973/11/22)
6. yellow snow suite (sydney, australia, 1973/06/24)
7. guitar event (lowell, 1973/11/30)
8. be-bop tango contest (waterloo, canada, 1973/11/18)
9. announcer's closing remarks

Scheduled for release in June. On the Keyhole record label.

QUEEN OF JAPAN - TOKYO RISEN

• queen of japan: tokyo risen
      (2006, cd, ger, echokammer 040) 

Queen Of Japan's version of Frank Zappa's 'Bobby Brown' got released in 2001 on their "Nightlife In Tokyo album. It can also be found on this compilation CD from 2006.

FRANK ZAPPA - DUMB ALL OVER LIVE 1981

• frank zappa: teenage rockin' combo - dumb all over live 1981
      (2015, 2cd, uk, broadcasting radio records brr5011)

Here's another brand-new edition of the 1981/11/17 New York City Palladium concert.
An excellent concert but it's weird that they left out 'Clownz On Velvet'. (and a couple of other tracks as well.)
FZ's introduction is there, just no 'Clownz On Velvet'...

And before you run to the record shop, you need to know that this is another 'radio show' release. Released without permission of the Zappa Family Trust.
A more complete and better-sounding recording can be downloaded at Zappateers. For free.

CHRIS SCHLARB UPDATE

The Chris Schlarb album that I talked about earlier today, is also out on 180 g white vinyl.

It includes FZ's 'Sofa no.2'.

CHATO! NEWSFLASH

Chato's latest album, "Prog Fusion With Balls" includes a track that got recorded at the Yellow Snow Festival in Larvik, Norway in February 2012. The track got recorded by my pal Eric Meulenbroeck and is entitled 'I'm Only In You For Your Money'. It's a zappa-esque guitar solo and it does include a short Zappa tease...

I also corrected some data regarding "Prog Fusion With Balls". This isn't a private release. It's out on Wave Men Records".
And while I'm at it. The Crosswalker EP (to which Chato contributed the guitar parts) is rather new as well. It got released in 2015 and not in 2014.