YOUTUBE NOTES. Frank Zappa / Ensemble Modern The Yellow Shark Alte Oper, Frankfurt, Germany 17 sept 1992 1h 29mn 22s (trailer + intro: 2mn)
1. Classica Trailer 2. Overture 3. Dog/Meat 4. Outrage at Valdez 5. Times Beach II 6. III (Revised) 7. Magnesium Dress 8. Be-Bop Tango 9. Food Gathering 10. Ruth is Sleeping 11. Amnerika 12. None of the Above pt1 13. Pentagon Afternoon 14. Times Beach III 15. Welcome to the United States 16. Pound for a Brown 17. Get Whitey 18. G-Spot Tornado
Sweejak wrote:A Frank Scheffers documentary, as broadcast by VPRO in the Netherlands April 2007.
Thanks for Frank Scheffer’s documentary! I’m planning on viewing the second half, today. ~ A.
I don’t mind being surprised or stunned. I was both during the watch of Zappa’s library as it unfolded. Has any pop star worked as hard as he did, or inspired such talented people in the way he did, or left such a legacy? (Maybe The Beatles? My appreciation for pop culture’s music and performance will forever lag.) I’ve a renewed interest in listening to and observing technique of (electric) guitarists of any genre. I’m really delighted to have Scheffer’s film in my library. Thanks, again, Sweejak.
Thank you, too, Mask, for the lovely music of David Russell. I will always love the acoustic instruments.
~ A.
Art will be the last bastion when all else fades away. ~ Timothy White (b 1952), American rock music journalist _________________
SOME YOUTUBE NOTES (2011). Chamber Music is a collaboration between Ballaké Sissoko, who plays the traditional kora, a lute-harp from Mali, and Vincent Ségal, the French cellist who plays for the trip-hop band Bumcello. It is also, quite simply, one of the most elegant and beautiful recordings of “world music” in recent years. At a time when cross-cultural music has tended toward highly-caffeinated electric pop and dance music, Sissoko and Ségal remind us that there is room—and maybe even a need—for a quieter, more refined world music.
Both musicians have displayed an aptitude for defying expectations—the list of trip-hop cellists is pretty short, after all. And Ballaké Sissoko has become a familiar name on the world music scene through his work with American blues legend Taj Mahal and Italian minimalist Ludovico Einaudi, among others. But perhaps the combination of kora and cello works so well because there are no expectations for it. The collaboration grew out of a personal friendship, and at no point was there an attempt to produce a record that would be slick and hip and commercial. Yet it has become one of Europe’s most buzzed-about world music recordings in the past year.
Art will be the last bastion when all else fades away. ~ Timothy White (b 1952), American rock music journalist _________________
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