Category Archives: Personal

Let’s Make The Water Turn Black!

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher
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Grande Mothers Re:Invented Embark On EU Tour

Posted on July 8, 2010 by urbangraffito

Warning: You’re about to enter a zone heavy with nostalgia. Take with a very large grain of salt. In the late 70s and early 80s (yes, when Dinosaurs roamed the city streets wearing Walkmans and eating veggieburgers) – when a … Continue reading →

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Chanan Hanspal Plays Zappa

Posted on July 1, 2010 by urbangraffito

Waiting in my inbox today was a missive from an impressive and interesting chap, to say the very least: one Chanan Hanspal, a composer/guitarist of Welsh Indian extraction from Wales. Who is Chanan Hanspal? Click on his name and discover … Continue reading →

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Immaculate Voodoo Butter Mix – Part IV

Posted on June 15, 2010 by urbangraffito

It’s that time of the month, fellow KUR-Meisters, when I dip into my personal, not-so-mythic, vault of Zappa field recordings to compile the latest KUR mix: the “Immaculate Voodoo Butter Mix – Part IV“. What is Part IV? Part IV … Continue reading →

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Frank Zappa’s Grand Wazoo EP, 1972

Posted on June 3, 2010 by urbangraffito

When Barry first emailed the link to the above excerpt from the bootleg EP of Frank Zappa and the Grand Wazoo Band‘s (mistakenly printed as Frank Zappa and the Petit Wazoo Orchestra on the front cover by the bootlegger) September … Continue reading →

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The Sonic Beauty of Igor Stravinsky

Posted on May 28, 2010 by urbangraffito

After a long week beset from all sides with city sounds and industrial rhythms, there is nothing more soothing to my ears and mind than the sonic beauty of Igor Stravinsky‘s compositions. Listening to the following three clips, one can … Continue reading →

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Mumford & Sons

Posted on May 2, 2010 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

You know that feeling when you hear a band for the very first time, and your immediate reaction is “wait just a minute — wow, this is, this is, really really good”, and you just have to park by the … Continue reading →

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Spam 2.0

Posted on April 25, 2010 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Hey guys ‘n gals! Just wanted to warn you of a new comment-spam technique I’ve come to identify here at KUR. The M.O. goes something like this: Spammer picks a random comment from a past post/thread Spammer copies said comment … 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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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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