Retrospective - Zappanale #31

"The Complete Adventures Of The Unrelated Sound Guy"
Mikko Keinonen is a very wonderful Finnish filmmaker. He hired me last year to play the piece “Mating Dance”  ...

Dr. Tripp's first career was as a professional musician. Young Art started playing drums in the 4th grade with the school bands. In high school he started playing the drum set on "gigs" with bands at ...

Oiapok is a collective of eight musicians created in Strasbourg in 2020. Despite its seemingly young age, the band shows genuine musical maturity, as it comprises a majority of the members of ..

Jazzprojekt Hundehangen came into being in 1999 and emerged from the then legendary band Erdbärblau.

Basically, the three musicians ...

10 musicians going wild on stage with an ever more storming and friendly show! After 40 years of touring, this band and its different lineups have won the hearts of die-hard fans, and the bug is passed on from ...

Run Logan Run are an alchemical fusion of surging, polyrhythmic alt-breakbeats and screaming guttural saxophone. Propelled by the kinetic ferocity of Matt Brown’s drums and guided by soul deep ...

The two top-class musicians let the listener experience what is possible in this band line-up in a stylish and musically sophisticated way. The "Klangfusion" is an exciting musical border crossing that offers the listener ...

Would the highly religious, lovable Bach get along with the brilliant and yet so torn Zappa? Could they create works together? With so much time between their lives, would they be able to find common ground musically?

Co de Kloet (1959) is a musician, composer, producer and radio personality. He is known in the trade as The Creative Catalyst. He works for Dutch Public Broadcaster NTR, the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and ...

The bEND does not have a long journey, does not have to change trains and if there is a traffic jam in Bad Doberan, they know how to avoid it as they know the area. They didn't get to know each other ...

The son of two opera singers, Robert Martin was trained as a classical French horn player at the prestigious Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. There he ...

DRH stands for "Dark Rock Hallucinogène" - like PinioL (Zappanale #29) they come from Lyon. Something good must be in the air in Lyon. But listen (read) yourself: With its frenetic and fractioned ...

Would Colosseum have guessed this when they first disbanded in September 1971? Concerts by the legendary sextet have started again in 2021. ...

Valentina Ciardelli (Double Bass)
Alessandro Viale (Piano)
Ignazio Alayza (Viola) ...

In the course of corona-related live inactivities, a ZAPPNOISE rehearsal resulted in a completely unplanned musical trip to the realms of BLACK SABBATH.

The Liberation Orchestra is a unique crossover ensemble founded by composer Ron Oppenheim, who fuses Alternative/Progressive Rock, Classical music, Jazz and ...

Born in October 1992, Yasi was living the normal childhood life, playing soccer and the violin while growing up. At the age of 12 she decided that the electric guiitar would be ...

Yes, it's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it. FiDO - seven brave men and their madonna-like engineer - are plundering tunes for twenty years from the mad cosmos of ...

For many years he has been considered one of the world's most creative and intense guitarists and keyboardists: Mike Keneally.
His talents as a singer, songwriter ...

Fried Dähn and Thomas Maos have been musical companions for two decades. The two musicians are united by their passion for genre-spanning art forms and musical border ...

is graduated cum laude at "G. Rossini" conservatory and in Professional Music at Berklee College of Music of Boston cum laude. He studied with Gary Burton, Ed Saindon, Victor Mendoza, ...

Die miserablen Husos play the music of Frank Zappa. Is he still known? Yes? Good! Let’s go on. What's special about it? They provide the American composer's songs with their own lyrics ...