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the big nOte files - june 2007 |
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the big nOte files - june 2007 |
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| Zappa Plays Zappa - Europe 2007 | |
| Markus Stauss | |
| What's new in Berlin? | |
| Steve Vai 2007 05 04 | |
| The Frank Zappa Strasse | |
| Zappa Plays Zappa - the new tour | |
| The Wrong Object | |
| Steve Vai on tour | |
| Zappanale | |
| Vacation Vibrations | |
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the April 2007 newsletter can be found at thebignotefiles - 2007/05 |
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Short bits: * * * Daniele Sepe recorded Zappa's 'Peaches' on his "Suonarne 1 Per Educarne 100" album * * * * * * new album by Corrie van Binsbergen: Het Wisselend Toonquintet: Dierenverhalen * * * * * * New Jean-Luc Ponty album is due out. It's called "The Acatama Experience" and will be out on Koch records. * * * * * * New Steve Vai double album has been announced * * * * * * Joe Deninzon / Stratospheerius has a new
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-- info: Hans-Peter Schmidt |
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| A couple of nice additions were sent in by Hans-Peter Schmidt: Sting bootlegs with a Zappa link. | |
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Zappa Plays Zappa, the concert experience that brings the music of
the late Frank Zappa to the stage, under the direction of Dweezil Zappa,
will this summer again embark on a North American tour. The
tour starts July 18 at Winnipeg's Centennial Hall with a total of 30
performance dates set for the tour's first leg which concludes in Los
Angeles at the end of August. Following
a break, Zappa Plays Zappa embarks on a 17 city European tour including
dates in the UK, Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium,
Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
In concept and performance, Zappa Plays Zappa offers audiences an
opportunity to spend an evening with Frank Zappa's music, performed
meticulously by a group of top flight musicians who have been schooled in
its subtleties. Far from a
"tribute band," Zappa Plays Zappa is more of a vehicle that
underscores the compositional genius of Frank Zappa much as a symphony
orchestra would perform pieces by a master composer.
Nate Chenen, writing about Zappa Plays Zappa in the New York Times
recognized this when he wrote that the show fully realized Dweezil's
intent for it to be "an argument for Frank Zappa's legitimacy as a
composer."
Frank Zappa died in 1993 after a career that saw him record over 80
albums. Today, the younger Zappa and his band mates are taking full
advantage of the wealth and breadth of the material contained therein.
"What we're preparing to do for this tour is perhaps even more
complex than what we did on the first tour," says Dweezil. "Last
year we learned about 40 songs from a very popular period of Frank's
career and this year we will be learning about 30 more new ones that are
somewhat more obscure. The tour will include material from 'We're Only In
It For The Money,' 'Absolutely Free,' 'Weasels Ripped My Flesh,' 'Joe's
Garage,' 'You Are What You Is,' The Yellow Shark' and much more, including
orchestral works."
Frank Zappa will be, quite literally, visible during the Zappa
Plays Zappa concerts. Large
screen video of Zappa will be accompanied musically by the band enabling
concert goers who might never had the opportunity to see Frank Zappa on
stage in person to have this experience first-hand.
Dweezil will rotate Frank Zappa video performances over the course
of the tour.
The band Dweezil (lead guitar) has assembled for this year's Zappa
Plays Zappa is composed of veterans of last year's tour including Joe
Travers (drums), Billy Hulting (percussion), Scheila Gonzalez (keyboards,
saxophone, vocals), Aaron Arntz (keyboards/trumpet), Peter Griffin (bass)
and Jaime Kime (rhythm guitar). Joining the tour this year is Ray White,
the vocalist who toured and recorded with Frank Zappa during the period of
such albums as "Tinsel Town Rebellion," "You Are What You
Is" and "Zappa in
New York" (his is the
lead vocal on beloved song "The Illinois Enema Bandit").
Dweezil is also working on bringing Zappa Plays Zappa into the home
with a feature length performance DVD that documents the 2006 tour.
It is expected to be released early this summer, concurrent with
the 2007 tour.
Zappa Plays Zappa is an undertaking with a higher purpose in mind
beyond filling seats with concert goers.
Dweezil Zappa explains, "I think my Dad's music deserves to be
heard by a wider audience. I really think he's been misunderstood for far
too long, which brings me back to why I'm doing this: I'm so in awe of his
accomplishments and want more and more people to know about him, and I
think the best way for people to first discover his music is on a visceral
level in a live situation. I think you have to be confronted with the
complexity and the beautiful subtlety of all of it to fully appreciate the
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You probably know them by heart, but here they are again, the
Zappa Plays Zappa 2007 Tour Dates
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2007 06 21 THE KENEALLIST: JUNE 21, 2007 A
Note From Mike Hey
you -- welcome to the "new look" of The Keneallist. I hope it
brings you hours of glazed joy! There
are many gigs about to occur: most imminent is this weekend's inaugural
Paul Green School of Rock Festival in Asbury Park, New Jersey. I'll be
playing in a band featuring Doug Lunn and Eric Slick, along with several
special guests, on Saturday June 23 -- we hit at 1:00 pm -- but the entire
two-day weekend festival will be a treat (featuring Ween, Adrian Belew,
Bad Brains, Benevento/Russo Duo and immense numerous others). Surely you
cannot miss this unless you have no choice! If you have a choice, choose
to not miss it! Those of you who keep writing to me saying come back and
play on the East Coast, if I get any more mail from you bugging me about
that in the next six months I will throw cereal at you. >Read Mike's
full message... Keneally
4 Sale at MooseMart! Just
announced-- a special package deal on Mike's first four Exowax CDs: four
for the price of three! Included are Nonkertompf, Dancing, Wooden Smoke
and Dog, four critically praised albums that exemplify Keneally's
astounding musical diversity. Each sounds completely different from the
other, yet it's obvious that they've all unmistakably flowed from the muse
of Mr. K. The Keneally 4 Sale Pack is a great opportunity to complete your
collection or invite a friend to experience Mike's particular brand of
head-rippage. All-in-all, you'll get 80 songs, a full 256 minutes of
musical genius, including the tracks "Live In Japan,"
"Louie," "Skull Bubbles," "2001," "Self
'n' Other," "Father's Day," "Backwards Deb,"
"Splane," "Click" and dozens more. >Check out the
Keneally 4 Sale Pack... Umphrey's McGee Meets Mike Keneally |
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| SAN DIEGO, CA, June 14, 2007: Mike (third from left) was invited onstage to join the band for a few songs during famed jam band Umphrey's McGee's tour-ending concert at the House of Blues. It was a spontaneous, incendiary night of music as Mike travelled from keyboards to guitar to bass, with the crowd enthusiastically cheering his and Umphrey's every move. | |
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a KLIMPEREI newsflash New
CDs Galipoche
& Chipiron : a new album ! Mondocane,
with Palo Alto Love
You
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UNCLE MEETING SNAPSHOTS |
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Earlier this month, I talked a bit about (the late) DebraKadabra magazine from Italy, and the various concerts that they had organised. Here's a bunch of snapshots, straight from the DebraKadabra site: UNCLE
MEETING 2004 UNCLE
MEETING 2005 http://www.debrakadabra.com/home-attività-um2005.htm THE
WAZU -- info (& lots more): Alessandro Pizzin |
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About two months ago, I talked about the "Struber Z'tett plays
Zappa" album. This is an essential addition to any Zappa music
collection.
In the meantime, the Struber Z'tett has its own MySpace corner at: |
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The Struber Jazztett has various concerts scheduled:
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SPIDER BARBOUR |
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A little while ago, I mentioned the band Chrysalis, of which Spider
Barbour had been a part of.
Statusbaby did send me the data & label of the CD reissue:
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A bit down below, I mentioned a couple (well, actually quite a bunch) of
new Zappa bootlegs.
The picture on the right shows you the cover of "Kong Kings". It includes the Zappa / Ponty concert from Valbonne, and a part of the 1970 Bath Festival concert. |
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The Budapest Autumn Festival has been the major contemporary arts festival in Hungary for over 16 years. The next edition will take place between October 12 and 21, 2007. The organisation is planning a Frank Zappa Tribute Day. There is talk about concerts with Ed Mann, Mike Keneally and the Symphony Orchestra of the Hungarian Radio (conducted by Adam Fischer). -- info: Bohouš
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2007/06/18, Belgian Cucamonga radio show aired episode 747. The last Cucamonga broadcast. Here's the playlist for that show:
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The Czech Frank Zappa FanClub issued these caps that say "Music Is
The Best!'.
I can only agree :-) Available from the CFZFC for 15 euro's.
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It looks like Don Preston's Akashic Ensemble will be playing in Prague as well.
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Every month, Corrie van Binsbergen hosts a so-called Brokkenavond at 'Zaal 100' in Amsterdam, NL. This month's edition celebrates one year of Brokkenavonden, with various bands.
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2007 06 14 Rainer Pappon, guitar player with the Central Scrutinizer Band,
released a solo album called "O Alemão da Guitarra Verde" in
1992.
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Do you have plans for August? How about a stay in
Vienna? Not too far away from the 'Porgy & Bess' jazz club...
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I received this message about ten days ago, and I know I'm too late. Just hope you didn't miss it.
DON
PRESTON TRIO THIS WEEKEND AT ALVAS PERFORMANCE GALLERY This
weekend at Alvas - Saturday, June 16th, 2007 08:00 PM Rosalie
& Alva Performance Gallery DON
PRESTON TRIO
Tickets
are a $15.00 donation at the door. "Preston's
solos reflect intellect, technical skill and a storyteller's way with a
line. His playing, like his compositions, ranges across panoramas of mood
and emotion, all colored with the freedom that comes from possessing
remarkable facility." "Preston
not only brought his skewed piano sensibility into the creative jazz
context, he lugged along a little of his zany synthesizer as
well........touching on all these associations (Carla and Paul Bley, John
Carter, Zappa and Cole Porter), showing what he can do twisting a standard
around and delving a bit into his own compositional bag as well. Preston
resides on the edge of tonality, toying with it." "revisiting
choice moments of weirdness and glory, as well as dig into original works
and unlikely standards, is not to be missed. The range of program is
somewhat camouflaged by the seamless interply of Preston and his cohorts.
They possess a cohesion born of fluidity that is reminiscent of
Paul Bley¹s 60¹s trios, but they have their own crisp edge. It is a high
common denominator for such a diverse program." "Preston
demonstrated anew that he is one of the most consistently exciting
keyboardists anywhere, he plays with an intensity and a rhythmic vitality
that approached the demonic, at climactic moments smashing the keys with a
forearm and elbow, as if the piano were just not instrument enough for him" "best
known as the first synth wielding Mother of Invention - Frank Zappa's
keyboardist aide de camp, to others he is an avowed New Music
experimentalist, whose work in theatre, and with assorted sonic daredevils
is the stuff of underground acclaim.......in the jazz orbit Prestton's
credits have included Gil Evans, Carla Bley, Buell Niedlinger, Michael
Mantler, John Carter, and Bobby Bradford" "Don
is one of the pioneers in that whole area, I don't think he gets nearly
enough credit for the contributions he has made and the vast amount of
knowledge he has acquired in electronic music." "the
guy that really impressed me was Don Preston, I didn't know what that
stuff was when I heard it on Frank Zappa's records. I said,
"Man!"
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I might have mentioned a couple of these before, but they're all considered 'new': on
vinyl
on
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http://www.sunysccc.edu/academic/music/ejo/ejo.html
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Thanks again to Hans-Peter Schmidt who directed me towards this excellent album. |
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Ctp.Cheese-Beard & the 7 Sisters of Prevention 2007 06 23 Check'em
out and please, Forward
to as many as possible! All
the best Jo,
AKA Capt. Cheese-Beard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PkRc6loKvI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljrI3s45JI8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp9Qlar5Jg4
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Subject:
THE WRONG OBJECT - two new
albums out... ---------------------------- "The Unbelieveable Truth" (Moonjune Records) and "Platform One" (Voiceprint), the two latest Wrong Object albums, are available! Spread the word. For more info, go to: http://www.wrongobject.com latest news: The Wrong Object is preparing concerts with Lol Coxhill and with Alex Maguire for end October...
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2007 06 23 Johan says: Some excellent Footage of the Atelier210 gig
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Dr.Dot, born Dorothy Stein, in Manchester, Ct, usa, is always in for a thrill: she'll participate in the 18th edition of the Zappanale festival in Bad Doberan, Germany, next August.
Dr.Dot, the Rock 'n' Roll Masseuse, got her nickname from Frank Zappa. She can be heard on 'A Few Moments With Brother A.West' on Zappa's "The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life".
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Monty
and the Butchers play hard dirty groovy sexy funk. They took part in
the UK Zappateers meeting in February 2007 (where their set included:
Dirty Love, Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, Bamboozled By Love, San
Ber'dino, Apostrophe, Any Downers and Montana).
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The latest free download on WM Recordings: The
Rabbits - Squirrel brain [WM064] "The music found on this here album is the kind of music one would like to hear if one was inclined to hearing sounds put together and taken apart using notes, noises, melodies, harmonies, rhythms, and all the opposing forces as well. If you like music, you'll love the music here" best
wishes, Marco
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Alessandro Pizzin tells me that italian fanzine Debra Kadabra is no
more.
The last issue (number 30) got published last December (2006). Debra Kadabra will be focusing on www.debrakadabra.com from now on !! Alessandro was also kind enough to supply me with a list of the "Uncle Meeting"s and the "FZ Memorial BBQ"s that the Debrakadabra Consortium orgranised between 2004 and 2007: |
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more FZ-related events are expected in the late fall 2007
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| Here's another nice magazine cover: Rockinform, from Hungary. Thank you Bálint ! | |
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In 2006, Malcolm McNab released his first solo album, entitled "Exquisite - The Artistry of Malcolm McNab". On this album Malcolm McNab performs a number of pieces with chamber ensembles. One of these pieces is Zappa's 'The Be-Bop Tango'.
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Phew... So here are the bands that will be playing at Zappanale. There's a couple of bands in there that didn't have an entry at UM, so that's been done now as well. It sure looks impressive... 2007/08/03 - 05 "Zappanale 18"
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German band Polytoxicomane Philharmonie is scheduled to take part in the 2007 edition of the Zappanale festival. The band is preparing an EP release for Zappanale. The EP will include a number of Zappa compositions.
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We added another show for June!!!
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