Category Archives: Music

Tunes, Treats & Torrents – The Muffin Men

Posted on March 31, 2010 by urbangraffito

Anyone who has followed my posts knows that I’m a avid downloader of torrents from Zappateers (and a fantastic bunch of freaks they are – I tip my hat to them for all the excellent Zappa torrents I’ve downloaded through … Continue reading →

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Varèse At The Southbank

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Our pal MagicFingers writes: Any of you KUR afficionados who happen to be in the London area over the weekend of April 16-18 might be in for a bit of a treat. There’s something rather special happening down at the … Continue reading →

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Revised Music for Marimba and Orchestra

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

From Simon Boyar: We didn’t get the whole thing and its kind of wobbly but here is about 2/3 of The World Premiere (2/20/10) of Frank Zappa’s Revised Music for Marimba and Orchestra conducted by Jonathan Haas with The NYU … Continue reading →

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Yellow Shark Rehearsal – September 16, 1992

Posted on March 24, 2010 by urbangraffito

Although in obvious pain and discomfort (you can hear it in his voice) – in this five part, never broadcasted rehearsal footage, one can easily see the tenacity with which Frank Zappa approached all of his musical endeavours, and the … Continue reading →

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Cucamonga Era Recordings Re-released

Posted on March 21, 2010 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

This just in, by way of Andrew: Crossfire Publications is making the first six of 32 download-only albums taken from Paul Buff’s recordings made at Pal Studios and Original Sound Studios available at CDBaby.com and iTunes (others companies will also … Continue reading →

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The Don and Bunk Show

Posted on March 20, 2010 by urbangraffito

This just in via Andre Cholmondeley: The Don and Bunk Show…on tour!! THIS SUNDAY – for those of you in the Wilmington DE, Philly, Baltimore area — Don’t miss an amazing and rare show with the two and only DON … Continue reading →

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The Voice Of Cheese Revisited

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Those of you who’ve been hanging around here long enough will remember KUR’s The Voice Of Cheese project. It ran for a couple of months back in 2007, featured some great music created by you and generally got wonderful feedback. … Continue reading →

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Panzerballett Blitzes Zappanale

Posted on March 15, 2010 by urbangraffito

Panzerballett is a German ensemble that uses “an innovative, hard ‘n’ heady mixture of jazz, funk and metal, crossing complex polyrhythms with metal guitar riffing, funky grooves and jazz improvisation”. In the clip above, from Zappanale 19, they perform a … Continue reading →

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Immaculate Voodoo Butter Mix – Part I

Posted on March 14, 2010 by urbangraffito

You name it, this KUR mix has it all: keyboard solos, synth solos, drum solos, sax solos, bass solos, trumpet and trombone solos, and, of course, lots of guitar solos – those hypnotically esoteric air sculptures of Frank Zappa‘s which … Continue reading →

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FZ, Popular Music, Politics & A Cheesy Epilogue

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Hot on the heels of Urbangraffito’s American Fascism post, here’s a freshly published paper by KUR reader and music academic Paul Carr, entitled “Dickie’s Such An Asshole”: Frank Zappa, Popular Music and Politics. As afficionados, many of us make the … Continue reading →

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