6PM Tuesday, January 20: LIVE free in-store at Horizon & The Bohemian Café for a Tower Of Song taping!

NEW CD “HAYMAKER!” out now and ON SALE 12.99

“Gourds Music” has its next chapter. Unclassifiable Austin sons The Gourds are back with Haymaker!, The crooked cousin to their critically acclaimed last album, Noble Creatures. On Haymaker! the band circles back, digs beneath and climbs over their gin soaked music roots with an album of grass-fed cosmic country. Rattling flourishes of soul, swamp rock and gospel rhythms spill out all over the place. Psychic songwriting apparatus Jimmy Smith, Kevin Shinyribs Russell and Max Johnston continue their chronicling of askew Texas characters who populate the subterranean Lone Star State, a world of ‘Fossil Contender’s’, ‘Luddite’s’, ‘Valentines’ and women with skin like chocolate milk, so beautiful they make married men feel no guilt.

Frank Zappa — Wazoo
This is the long-awaited live recording of the Grand Wazoo band. In 1972 Zappa assembled a big band comprised of some of the top LA area jazz musicians.. This band recorded 2 studio albums — Waka Jawaka & Grand Wazoo. This is as close as Zappa got to jazz. “Grand Wazoo”, in particular, is a must-have for any Zappa collection. 2006’s “Imaginary Diseases” (also highly recommended!) was a recording of the “Petit Wazoo” tour, which had a smaller brass & wind section. The full “Grand Wazoo” band only did 12 shows. This is a recording of the final concert in Boston.

Disc 1 inlcudes “Grand Wazoo” and “Big Swifty“, the long songs from each of the two albums, plus “Aproximate“, another long-format tune, which is more in the avant-guarde style. The band sections and solos are all excellent, and really give the peces a very different character than the originals. I consider the version of “Big Swifty” superior to the studio version.

Disc 2 includes a lengthy instrumental version of “Greggery Peccary“, minus the narration. Though I love the narration on the studio version, it does overpower the music. This version allows you to focus on the instrumental music in a new light. It is stretched out to 32 minutes and, though there is a slow spot or two, is generally excellent. A very interesting cello solo is a highlight. This is the best new release since “Lather“. Any fan of Zappa’s instrumental music will want to get this one. If you like “Grand Wazoo” and “Roxy and Elsewhere“, you need this! —By Andreas G From Progarchives.com

Frank Zappa “Wazoo” on CD

FREE PLANET RADIO - LIVE in-store performance
Saturday, Jan 24 - 3pm
Join us for this unique and very exciting one with le difference!!

If you’ve eaten at the Pita House or The India Palace and enjoyed the food or the music playing you will likely be at home with this CD or the first one from these guys. This is an enthralling new CD showcasing some of the nicest acoustic world world beat blends coming out of the many aromatic sonic flavors of Eastern and Middle Eastern origin. Grab this perfectly balanced mixture of jazz, ethnic, chamber music and a dash of funkiness. The Unravelling is a carry out I can’t live without. An absolute stunner and it’s from Asheville and heard very often on WNCW88.7-fm! —Gene

Here is the deeper story: Free Planet Radio is the shared vision of three multi-instrumentalists exploring the infinite and seamless relationships between musical cultures through the universal language of sound. “The Unraveling” is their latest release and includes special guest appearances by Turkish master musicians Omar Faruk Tekbilek (ney flute) and Hasan Isakkut (kanun).