about: captain beefheart and his magic band, the residents, frank zappa and lots of (m)others.

articles:
- modern drummer - august 2001 / magazinne - has a terry bozzio article in which terry discusses jazz and rock drummers (in a series called 'refelctions')
- guitar player - novermber 2000 / magazzine - lets warren cuccurullo talk pop trash; a 2-page article
- de morgen - october 2001 / newspaper -- has an article on "civilization" by theatre company 'dood paard'. texts by frank zappa & oscar van woensel
- gitarist - januari 2000 / (dutch) magaazine - 3-page article on steve vai's "the ultra zone".
- slagwerkerskrant - januari 2001 / (duttch) mag - 5-page piece on vinnie colaiuta
- slagwerkerskrant - march 2001 / (dutchh) mag - 5-page article on terry bozzio


* nasal retentive orchestra: fric out!
(2001, cd, fr, pickaboo nro 001) - incl.various frank zappa coverversions
all the way from france comes the nasal retentive orchestra's "fric out" and as the title suggests, there's lots of zappa on this one.
1. the heavy poodle (zappa)
2. dirty love (zappa)
3. king kong prélude (zappa)
4. i'm the slime (zappa)
5. the quizz (delbrouck)
6. king kong variations (zappa)
7. cosmik debris (zappa)
8. yellow snow (zappa)
9. water turn black (zappa)
10. shanxi part one (delbrouck)
11. interview
12. weasels variations (delbrouck)
13. black napkins (zappa)
14. our traditional meeting (delbrouck)
15. the greatest sinner (zappa)
the pieces written by christophe delbrouck (bass & backing vocals) are stories or discussions (in french), exept for 'shanxi' and 'weasels variations'. the first one is a very nice little piece that he even might have called 'shanxi from hell' :-).
the nasal retentive orchestra sounds great. especially mathieu metzger (sax & flutes) and jean-pierre vignaud (guitar) add a lot of extras. in short, a great band playing great music. you can tell that they had a lot of fun playing it. "fric out" is a very fine sounding, very entertaining album: essential listening !
you can find more info on this french septet (and their album) on www.multimania.com/fdi. getting hold of their album is not the easiest thing, but it is well worth the effort. (and maybe the euro will make this a bit easier)

* zappatistas: live in leeds
(2001, cd, uk, jazzprint jpvp122cd) - all zappa coverversions
the zappatistas were put together by john etheridge (guitarist of soft machine !!) and steve lodder at the end of 1998 for a festival in newark, uk, as a one-off thing. they enjoyed it so much that they gave some extra concerts and that they wanted to release an album of the 1999/11 concert they did in leeds. one year later, they got plugged on the famous 'jazz notes" bbc radio show (2000/02/17), and now, finally, here it is: the zappatistas' "live in leeds".
1. harry you're a beast / oh no / theme from lumpy gravy
(medley)
2. eat that question
3. sexual harassment in the workplace
4. king kong
5. big swifty
6. let's make the water turn black
7. sofa no.1
8. i'm the slime
9. grand wazoo
i was talking to a soft machine fan the other day, and he told me how he likes zappa's "hot rats", "waka jawaka" and "grand wazoo" albums. well, i guess the link is made clear on this fabulous album.
john etheridge's web site offers some tracks that are not on this album:
'peaches en regalia' and 'mr.green genes'. haven't heard them yet.
i'm still looking for a recording of the "jazz notes bbc show" as well as an audio copy of the tracks from john etheridge's web-site. if anyone can help me out, let me know.
but in the meantime, buy this album and dance to it !

* captain beefheart & his magic band: grow fins vol.III: grow fins
(2001, 2lp, usa, xeric xer-lp-96)
the final part of the grow fins vinyl package. this one has the complete fifth cd from the box edition.

* the meridian arts ensemble: 1994/03/06 concert den bosch, nl
(cdr)
not an official release this one, just a very fine concert that has been circulating on tape in the trade-circuit for a while. this concert was originally broadcasted on dutch radio and someone has been smart enough to transfer his quality copy to cdr. good job. sounds excellent. among other compositions, this concert also included frank zappa's 'oh no', 'igor's boogie', 'eat that question', 'echidna's arf', 'let's make the water turn black', 'harry, you're a beast', ''t mershi duween', 'dupree's paradise', 'peaches en regalia' and 'big swifty'.

* zita swoon: 2001/12/01 tv-broadcast "plankenkoorts",
belgian tv
(cdr)
a couple of weeks ago belgian national television (vrt 2, canvas) aired a show zita swoon did in april in schaarbeek, belgium, earlier this year.

short bits: shuggie otis's "inspiration information" album from 1974, has been re-released on cd.

that's all for now,

peter.vanlaarhoven@solvay.com

* previous big nOtes, 'hot barfs' and other news at:
www.oocities.org/pdoelder/index.html


(©peter van laarhoven - belgium)

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