WARPED DREAMER

Improv ensemble Warped Dreamer has just released a new album.

• Teun Verbruggen (drums)
• Jozef Dumoulin (keyboard)
• Stian Westerhuis (guitar)
• Arve Henriksen (trumpet, flute)

"Live At Moers", out on Teun's Rat Records label.

MF DOOM - MM.. FOOD

• MF Doom: Mm.. Food
      (2024, 2lp, USA, rhymesayers entertainment) - orange vinyl
      (2024, cd, USA, rhymesayers entertainment)

The 20th anniversary of MF Doom's "Mm.. Food" album got celebrated by a large series of re-issues. In every imaginable color variations.
I mentioned these earlier, but last week, I finally received the orange vinyl version, a Rough Trade exclusive, and the CD.

Repacked with new artwork.
And the album still sounds fascinating. Even after 20 years.
Zappa freaks will probably know that two tracks include Zappa samples !!

There's also 2 LP picture disc re-issue but that one escaped me.

SUN RA - PINK ELEPHANTS ON PARADE

• Sun Ra: Pink Elephants On Parade
      (2024, cd, USA, modern harmonic)

Released on pink transparent vinyl as a 2024 Record Store Day release (April 2024), Sun Ra's "Pink Elephants On Parade" got released on CD later the same year (November 2024).
With three CD-only bonus tracks.

"Pink Elephants On Parade" presented live versions of songs from the Disney universe.
Beautiful.

Here's 'Whishing Well' (originally from the Snow White movie).

THE GRANDMOTHERS

In their numerous mutations, The Grandmothers released quite a number of albums.
With lots of Frank Zappa tunes.
Always fun.

I recently found a copy of "Who Could Imagine" on the Brain Records label.
The official release was on Munich Records, but the album got re-issued a couple of times (on CDR) by Don Preston on his Brain Records label.
This probably is one of the several variations as most Brain Records re-issues were different from the previous version.

FRANK ZAPPA SINGLES

Bjørn Olav Herheim has reworked / updated / refurbished his ZappaFrenzy website.

https://www.home.zappafrenzy.com/

There's an INCREDIBLE amount of info to found. And not just for the 'hard-core collectors'.

To celebrate, I dusted my stock copies of The Hollywood Persuaders' OS-39 and of The Penguins' OS-27.

WARREN HAYNES & DEREK TRUCKS

Warren Haynes - These Changes ft. Derek Trucks (Live)

PART TWO OF DWEEZIL ZAPPA'S "THE VAULT" SERIES...

Zappa Plays Zappa
'Billy The Mountain'
Live at The Roxy in 2007.

 

"MAKE MATS/MORGAN GREAT AGAIN"

"Make Mats/Morgan Great Again", the latest album (audio Bandcamp release) by Mats & Morgan got uploaded (as video !!) to YouTube a couple of days ago.

This is magic. Check it out.

MARCO MINNEMANN - ONE BY ONE (THE SCENES MOVE ON)

Bandcamp release: 'One By One (The Scenes Move On)'

Written and performed by Marco Minnemann with special guest vocal performance by Victoria Vechera.

BLIND IO, A NEW PROJECT BY TEUN VERBRUGGEN

Teun Verbruggen's latest project is called Blind Io.

It features

• Teun Verbruggen (drums)
• Bram De Looze (piano)
• Ingrid Laubrock (saxophone)
• Ikue Mori (electronics)

Their first album has just been released : "Pillars Of Creation (Part 1)".
Improvised music.
Out on LP (on Teun's Rat Records label) and through Bandcamp.