Zappa Plays Zappa : Echidna's Arf part 1 & bonus

Zappa Plays Zappa : public performance Echidna's Arf from Roxy & Elsewhere, excellent quality, plus Village of the Sun as bonus... I lowered the video quality a bit so the two would fit. Enjoy !

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Music

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• Zappa
• Echidna
• Roxy
• Elsewhere

[wonderyak]

Sheila Gonzales is amazing.

[pawik2006]

Scheila Gonzales rulez! Goddess...

[TheLeastDiseased]

This is Village Of The Sun Not Echidna's Arf.

[lirvana2]

This is Village Of The Sun!

[maximumsatann]

Napoleon is a rapist

[Bix12]

Blah, blah,blah.......Villiage Of The Sun...ahhhhhhhh! '73-'75...my fave Zappa incarnation.

[maximumsatann]

@AtanasovPetar You seem to have deviated from the point which was my classification of Zappa's harmonic sense. It is a very idiosyncratic take on a Jazz idea and at times is very noodly but he does modulate incrementally and it is in principle a primitive form of Modal Jazz. Search "Frank Zappa, His Bizarre Relationship With Jazz". It's a good BBC Radio 4 documentary on this very topic, albeit less technically.

[AtanasovPetar]

@maximumsatann Doesn't change the fact that has nothing to do with jazz and nothing to do with good improvisation.It's noodling around.It's possible to make good improvisation on a static harmony but you need very good rhythm overall specially if you want your improvisation to have some sense.I would say that is what he lacks most.

[maximumsatann]

@AtanasovPetar Not wholly static but revolving around 2 or 3 chord vamps with the harmonic framework articulated by FZ modally. Not stupid at all.

[AtanasovPetar]

@maximumsatann You just connected 2 opposite things!!Modal Jazz and Static harmony.I never heard more stupid thing in my life.Jazz music has modal harmony NOT functional.That means the harmony modulates often so you have to change scales with the chord changes.Functional harmony is when you don't have modulations and all the chords relate to 1 root.Frank Zappa doesn't modulate!So i have no idea how did you came up in your mind to link those things.

[maximumsatann]

@AtanasovPetar His playing is more in the Modal Jazz tradition and the vamps that he blows over are reasonably static. However harmonically in other cases he is incredibly rich. Part of his harmonic vocabulary reminds me of later American Minimalism.