the big nOte files - 2003/06/10 - 2003/07/07

NEW RELEASES * NEW RELEASES * NEW RELEASES * NEW RELEASES * NEW RELEASES

• project/object: the dream of the dog
      (2002, cd, usa, private release)
  
  • we all know project/object as a band that performs frank zappa's music, but on their latest, "the dream of the dog", they bring you improvised music. actually, it is live improvised music, most of it taken from the improvisational parts / solos during their concerts.  this means that certain tracks have familiar sounding zappa chords in the back. titles like 'towson kong' or 'chicago kong' should get your imagination going  :-)
    you'll find all the info on how to get this fine album on www.projectobject.com .
    

• captain beefheart: railroadism
      (2003, cd, uk, viper cd 015)
  
  • no, it's not a real new album.  the captain stopped making music some twenty years ago. but, yes, it's a new release.
    browsing through the captain's career, displaying recordings from 1966 to 1981, "railroadism" is an OK album.  of course, it cannot be compared to the captain's real albums, but it's nice to listen to.  the quality is better then i expected and the choice of songs is good as well.

• d'yea: bassstar mission  (1)
      (2003, cd, usa, private release)
  
  • and a bassstar mission it is.  jerry outlaw (who you should know as the guitar player in bogus pomp) said: "It's nothing like Bogus Pomp but I'm very happy with the way it is developing."
    well, i'd sure love to see this band live. this is very heavy, very greasy funk-rock: party music.
    i like it a lot, and mr. jerry outlaw throws in a very mean guitar every now and then - just the way i like it.

• jeff beck: shapes of things
      (2003, cd, uk, castle music cmqcd 702)
  
  • the truth is that "shapes of things" is a sampler. but i also have to say that it collects a lot of tracks that i had never heard of. it's all jeff beck: screaming lord sutch & the savages, the nightshift, paul jones, donovan with the jeff beck group and much, much more.
    to be honest, i only mention it here because it also includes three tracks previously released on the fabulous gto's "permanent damage" album.
    only for brit-pop collectors and / or completists.

• jeff buckley: the grace eps
      (2002, 5cd5", uk, columbia 5011782000)
  
  • this little box includes five eps, originally released in various parts of the world. a very beautiful release.
    some of the tracks feature gary lucas on guitar, and, of course, a couple of the tracks were co-written by gary as well.

• money shot: money shot
      (2003, cd, usa, private release ms72319)
  • money shot has recently signed a contract with Atlantic Pacific Entertainment.  they're about to release their first album, and to celebrate / promote this, they have issued a 4-track cd.
    the website
    http://www.moneyshotrockandroll.com
    does not give too much info, but this little disc sure is a great introduction !
    jerry outlaw says: "I played lead guitar on the recording and wrote parts for all the songs with the other guitarist, Dana Walsh."
    
    superb lead guitar work, and a deep threatening baritione voice.  my favorite kind of a.o.r.  -  get it while you can:
    Moneyshot
    P.O.Box  24246
    Tampa
    Florida
    33623
    USA       (phone: 727-540-9588)

• various artists: zappanale # 13
      (2003, cd, ger, arf society)
  
  • i can't say too much about this beautiful disc.  it looks like a zappa album, it has a lot of different bands on it, and they all play zappa stuff. - recorded at last year's zappanale.
    
    someone should tell pierrejean gaucher & christophe godin that they should release their zappanale performance on album. again, they are the highlight.

• don preston's akashic ensemble: the inner realities of evolution
      (2003, cd, usa, brain records br016)
  
  • the liner notes say that the titles are inspired by a book by rudolf steiner.  i have to say that i am not too familiar with the steiner school, but i hope that you're not holding that against me.
    anyway, don preston's latest, "the inner realities of evolution", is a very experimental sounding album. those of you who recall that don preston used to organise improvisational music sessions in the early sixties where people were improvising music against movies that showed protozoa and other funky organisms, will finally get an idea of what these sessions might have sounded like. besides the akashic ensemble, bunk gardner and andré cholmondeley (project/object) also contribute to this album.

• the grandmothers: a grandmothers night at the gewandhaus
      (2003, cd, ger, warner classic 2564600682)
  
  • recorded live in concert at the 'gewandhaus' in leipzig, germany on march 27, 2003, and performed by the grandmothers (preston, brock, gardner, estrada) and the chamber orchestra of invention.
    mostly zappa material, a couple of preston compositions and one piece composed by napoleon murphy brock.  this album presents about sixty minutes ot he concert. (a concert that lasted three and a half hours !!)
    essential.
    and where did i read that there might be a dvd-release scheduled as well?

NEWS *  NEWS * NEWS * NEWS * NEWS * NEWS * NEWS * NEWS * NEWS * NEWS * NEWS

DOCTOR DARK IN CONCERT - DOCTOR DARK IN CONCERT

• wednesday 2003/06/25  concert 'skybar', somerville, ma,  usa
• thursday  2003/07/10  concert 'iron horse', northampton, ma, usa
• sunday 2003/07/13  concert 'as220', providence, ri, usa

MIKE KENEALLY ON DUTCH RADIO: BLINDFOLD TEST WITH CHARLES PATER

and if all this wasn't adventurous enough, saturday, june 21st, he was the guest of charles pater on "4fm" radio.  in his "blindfold test", charles confronts his guest with various recordings (without saying as to what he or she is listening to), asking his guest to comment. 

2003/06/21  radio show "4fm: blindforld test with charles pater", dutch radio

BOGUS POMP TO PERFORM WITH FLORIDA ORCHESTRA

Subject: Bogus Pomp Orchestra Zappa tickets on sale soon!

Hi Frank Zappa fans!

Bogus Pomp will perform what possibly may be their best show ever on August 21 at the Tampa Theatre. The gig will feature numerous orchestral, jazz, rock pieces written by Frank Zappa performed by the traditional Bogus Pomp members together with about 15 members of the Florida Orchestra. Unlike the two previous sold out shows with the whole Florida Orchestra where the two "bands" split duty, this show will have all 25 musicians on stage performing at the same time for the whole show. And with an accomplished conductor, Tom Trapp. I don't think there is anyplace in the U.S. where you could see this other than this show.

The venue is great. Tampa Theatre is a restored old theater with remarkable charm. Seats 1400 with a balcony... not a bad seat in the house. You will feel like you are in a castle courtyard enjoying fantastic music. Beer and wine is available. Recording, both video and audio, is welcomed. Just give us a copy please!

Tickets are $27.50 and go on sale Friday, June 27 at 10:00AM. You can purchase tickets at any Ticketmaster outlet, or online at www.ticketmaster.com, or at the Tampa Theatre box office. Hint: The Tampa Theatre has good seats held for their members and you can join their membership by going to their Website at www.tampatheatre.org . Reduced priced tickets for students with valid ID are available.

The band has been rehearsing for this for months. Musical scores have been written specifically for this 25 piece combo. This will be a great show!

Hope to see you there!

--Fred

NEW STEVE VAI SAMPLER * NEW STEVE VAI SAMPLER * NEW STEVE VAI SAMPLER

• columbia australia released

  • steve vai: sex & religion / alien love secrets
        (2001, australia, 2cd, columbia 504929000)
    a combination of two classic steve vai albums.

KENEALLY TO PERFORM WITH JAN AKKERMAN IN HOLLAND

amethyst & midnight:

an evening with mike keneally featuring special guest jan akkerman

at the 'lux' in nijmegen, the netherlands, 2003/06/10 - 21.00 h
(lux, marienburg 38 - 39, nijmegen, 024-3816855)

mike keneally will play with pieter douma (bass) and rené creemers (drums).  two musicians that he never played with.  special guest will be jan akkerman.

the concert will be recorded by nps radio.

MORE DOCTOR DARK * MORE DOCTOR DARK * MORE DOCTOR DARK

MATS & MORGAN ARE TOURING * MATS & MORGAN ARE TOURING

ZAPPA COVERVERSION BY THE MIST BEETS * ZAPPA COVERVERSION BY THE MIST BEETS

…The Mist Beets (a three-piece band) have included their ‘fairly accurate cover’ of Hungry Freaks, Daddy on their new CD, Dorkabilly Sounds…

ZAPPA PERFORMED AT THE PRAGUE SPRING FESTIVAL

Homage to Frank Zappa
Under this title, on Saturday, 17 May 2003, the first production in the fifty-eight-year history of the Prague Spring Festival to include rock music will take place in the spaces of the Trades Fair Palace of the National Gallery, Prague. To mark the tenth anniversary of the premature death of the composer, the symphonic compositions of Frank Zappa, one of the most original and most controversial figures of music in the second half of the twentieth century, will be performed by the Agon Orchestra conducted by its artistic director Petr Kofroň. The compositions were made in collaboration with the conductors Pierre Boulez and Zubin Mehta, the famous InterContemporain ensemble and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Apart from these works, an utterly individual blend of the ideas of Varèse and the inspiration of Stravinsky, the performance will be an opportunity for members of the Pražský výběr rock band to join forces again – in particular Michal Pavlíček and Michael Kocáb, both friends and collaborators of Zappa’s, who provided him with the impetus to visit Prague in 1990.

JOHN TRUBEE SPEAKS

  I woke up at 4 AM today with my brain chewing on these so I had to get up and write 'em down. Good stuff or BS?
  You decide.

Enervating workaday drudgery sucks the music
out of our souls. Stop the universal zombification
of humanity by the demands of our mindless
consumer culture. Quit your job today and come
play in the park with me!"

    --John Trubee

"To refuse to acknowledge the dark side
and to always hide pain and disease and death
is to lie about life."

    --John Trubee

And here's 2 new groovy album titles for your rock band's new album if you're all sitting around your rehearsal basement trying to think of a cute or clever title:

• They Spit On Our Shadows
  
• Murderers Run Free

STEVE VAI: TWO NEW RELEASES TO ADD IN THE STEVE VAI SECRET JEWEL BOX

"The wait is finally over: Steve Vai's Archives Volumes 3 and 4 will be released on Steve's birthday - June 6, 2003, and available only through Vai.com's Online Store. And for those who have not yet bought the Secret Jewel Box but are interested in doing so, a limited number of these are still available - and can be bought along with the two new archives CDs for a special price."

ARCHIVES VOLUME 3 (MYSTERY TRACKS) is a compilation of Steve's bonus tracks featured on Japanese releases of his CDs, along with promotional tracks, songs featured on other albums and unreleased/demo tracks.

ARCHIVES VOLUME 4 (VARIOUS ARTISTS) is a collection of songs Steve has contributed to other projects and records including Public Image Ltd., tracks from the Hendrix tribute In From The Storm with the London Symphony Orchestra, and a collaboration with Chick Corea from The Songs Of West Side Story, among others.

NEW RELEASES FROM FAVORED NATIONS * NEW RELEASES FROM FAVORED NATIONS

• marty friedman - music for speeding

• adrian legg - guitar bones

• eric sardinas - black pearls

JOHN TRUBEE: ANTIPOEM FOR THE DAY

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John V Trubee
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003
Subject: Antipoem For The Day

       The World's Injustices
       Copyright c 2003 John Trubee

       
        It makes me mad
        When I think about all the idiots in the world
        Who do so little
        Yet have so much
        And all they can do is argue and complain
        And start fights over nothing

        While other people
        Work so hard and get so little
        And are pushed back
        Again and again and again
        What little they have is taken from them
        They sit alone
        And have nothing
        And no one gives a damn.

        It would topple me into madness
        If I were to brood on all
        The injustices in the world.

        I support the earnest strugglers
        And I despise the spoiled idiots
        And I call each for who they are
        
        And if I can infuriate the idiots
        By flinging their shit back upon them
        It'll make me happy.
  

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MORE JOHN TRUBEE * MORE JOHN TRUBEE

    "Is the individual forever to be crushed
     beneath the wheels of commerce?"
                                  --John Trubee

     (reflecting on the current legal action against
      Unocal Corporation for its collusion with the
      junta in Myanmar which raped, killed, and
      tortured people)
   
John Trubee
PO Box 4921
Santa Rosa Ca 95402 USA
"A junkyard dog staked to a short chain chasing himself
in tight circles of sorrow and madness."

     (reflecting on the idea espoused by philosophers
      that words and language parses out our
      experience of reality into discrete bits so that we
      are unable to perceive the universe as one whole
      thing as does a god or a newborn infant.)

GENE SIMMONS RECORDS TRACK CO-WRITTEN BY FRANK ZAPPA

(info: Marco Kalnenek)

BEISTELLTISCHE: IN CONCERT & NEW ALBUM

the guys also have a new album out:

•  die beistelltische: kill ugly radio
      (2003, cd, ger, private release) - incl.various frank zappa compositions
  

NEW RALPH CONTEST (in 2 parts)

Ralph is proud to announce a new contest in two parts and we hope you can
take part. Let us explain...

PART ONE:

We welcome you to use your favorite medium: paint, chalk, pen, polaroid, photoshop, pencil, photocopies, or any combination thereof. What are you making? Use any of those (or other) elements to create a rendtion of a Residents related image. This could be a memory from a show, a fictious scenario (The Residents at a campfire with Roy Rogers, The
Residents vs. Jason and Freddy etc), a picture created in yer mind's eye by a lyric or song, recreation of Residents album covers. You could even make a short comic, political cartoon, hentai, animae...you name it.

That's just the beginning...for more details go to:
http://www.ralphamerica.com
and read up on the further details -

thanks for staying tuned...
The Ralph Crew

DON VAN VLIET ON DVD * DON VAN VLIET ON DVD * DON VAN VLIET ON DVD

• anton corbijn: some yoyo stuff
      (2003, dvd, can, dr-4354)
  • we knew this fabulous piece of video on vhs, and now it's out on dvd as well.
    "some yoyo stuff" is an observation of the observations of don van vliet and documented on film by anton corbijn.
    this documentary only lasts for about 13 minutes, but every second of it is just great!  essential stuff.
    i can't tell you much about codes and zones and whatever dvd parameters that you should know about.  i can only say that it plays on my yurippean dvd player and that it's great.
    

GUITAR PART: VIVA ZAPPA * GUITAR PART: VIVA ZAPPA * GUITAR PART: VIVA ZAPPA

• guitar part n°110
      (2003/05, mag, fr, studio press)
  
  • it has been a while since i noticed frank zappa on the cover of a magazine.
    the may 2003 edition of guitar part magazine had a 7-page article on frank zappa, written by j.-b.méchernane:
    "zappa was a rolling stone".

DE EREPRIJS PERFORMS ZAPPA * DE EREPRIJS PERFORMS ZAPPA

• 2001/01/15    concert 'burgerzaal', apeldoorn, the netherlands
  • de ereprijs
    • le sacre du printemps (stravinsky)
    • frank zappa suite (zomby woof, sofa, echidna's arf (of you), duke of prunes) (frank zappa)
    • toy story 3 (jeroen van dijk)

they will perform a concert at the 'plusetage' in baarle nassau in the netherlands on saturday june 14, 2003.
i don't know if they're to perform their 'frank zappa suite'.

-- info: tom baeten

• 2003/06/08 dutch radio show "4fm": mike keneally & the metropole orkest live in concert at 'paradiso' in amsterdam, the netherlands, followed by an interview with keneally
  • "the universe will provide" (mike keneally,  orchestrated by mike keneally & chris opperman)
    • blue
    • 68
    • all of them were quiet
    • room
    • archaic peace strategies
    • worried word
    • spoon guy
    • four slices of toast
    • not just flutes
    • bullies

     

• 2003/06/09 belgian radio show "cucamonga": peter vermeersch and claude coppens talk about "the purple cucumber", the frank zappa tribute

NEW ZAPPA BOOTLEG

• frank zappa: the day the earth stood still
     (2003, 2cd-bootleg, ger, moustache's magic music mmm-03-22/23)
  
  • the complete dortmund concert from 1988/05/05 on 2cds. digipac, great artwork and some misleading info (mike keneally on trumpet ??)
    

ZAPPANALE  *  ZAPPANALE  *  ZAPPANALE  *  ZAPPANALE  *  ZAPPANALE  *  ZAPPANALE