Kosmik Radiation Radio - Dec 22, 2015 Playlist

Happy Zappa Day!
Frank Vincent Zappa (1940-1993)

The "modern day composer" was born Dec 21st, 1940

CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
The Mothers of Invention "Burnt Weeny Sandwich" 1970 (USA)

December 21 is Frank Zappa Day (at least in my book), and this year that date would have been his 75th birthday. Sadly, 2015 also marks the death of his widow, Gail. One of the many unique facets of Zappa's career is that he always maintained ownership of his recordings (during a time when many artists didn't even own the rights to their own compositions). After his death, Gail incorporated the Zappa Family Trust to administer re-releases of Zappa's catalog and new output from the vault of unreleased tape FZ left behind. ZFT remains a family business, with youngest son Ahmet now taking the reigns of the company, while elder son Dweezil leads the Zappa Plays Zappa band, recreating Frank's music on stages around the world (this year's tour featured the excellent One Size Fits All in its entirity, and was the best show I've seen this group play so far). Anyway, this year's annual Zappa Day Classic Album is one of the final releases from his original group, The Mothers Of Invention, in fact it came out months after the original MOI had officially been dissolved in 1969. Like the best Zappa records, it seamlessly blends studio and concert recordings into that magical, maximalist classical/-jazz/rock sound that only he created. Bookended by a pair of greasy doo-wop pachuco rock "flop singles", the meat of this album are the extended instrumentals of the "Holiday In Berlin" suite on side one and mostly-live "Little House I Used To Live In" on side two.

(N) = New Release
(R) = Listener Request

Artist	Song	Album	Year (label)	Country
Rotary Connection	Peace At Least	Peace	1968	USA
James Brown (died on Christmas 2006)	Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto	Soulful Christmas	1968	USA
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings	Ain't No Chimneys In The Projects	It's A Holiday Soul Party (N)	2015 (Dap Tone)	USA
W-X (Tim Presley from White Fence)	Hermit Stomp (Simple Times)	W-X (N)	2015 (Castleface)	USA
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	Most Of What I Like	Paper Mache Dream Balloon (N)	2015 (ATO)	Australia
Cribshitter	Fantasy Factory	Acapulco (N)	2015 (Coconut Fanatics)	USA

Dweezil Zappa	Dragon Master (lyric by Frank Zappa)	Via Zammata (N)	2015 (Fantom)	USA
Timmy's Organism	Back In The Dungeon Again	Heartless Heathen (N)	2015 (Third Man)	USA
Wand	Lower Order	1000 Days (N)	2015 (Drag City)	USA
Deerhoof	Let's Dance The Jet (live)	Fever 121614 (N)	2015 (Felicity)	USA/Japan
Sonic Youth	Santa Doesn't Cop Out On Dope (Martin Mull)	Just Say Noel (various artists)	1996	USA

Van Morrison	Wavelength (R)	Wavelength	1978	UK (Northern Ireland)
Joni Mitchell	River	Blue	1971	Canada
Scott Walker	Montague Terrace (In Blue)	Scott	1967	USA/UK

The Mothers of Invention (Frank Zappa)	Little House I Used To Live In	Burnt Weeny Sandwich CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1970	USA
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band	Golden Birdies	Clear Spot	1972	USA
Dweezil Zappa	On Fire	Via Zammata (N)	2015 (Fantom)	USA

Flo & Eddie	Illegal, Immoral & Fattening	Illegal, Immoral & Fattening	1975	USA
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti	Kinski Assassin	Mature Themes	2012	USA
Rush	By-Tor & The Snow Dog	Fly By Night	1975	Canada
The Fresh & Onlys	Tropical Island Suite	Play It Strange	2010	USA
Fuzz	Sleestak	Fuzz II (N)	2015 (In The Red)	USA

Frank Zappa	Dancin' Fool	Sheik Yerbouti	1979	USA
James Brown	I Got Ants In My Pants (And I Need To Dance)	A-side 7" single	1972	USA
Mark McGuire	Earth: 2015	Beyond Belief (N)	2015 (Dead Oceans)	USA
Suicide	Spaceship	The Early Demos (bonus CD with reissue of second album)	rec. 1975	USA

Glenn Mercer	Kara Sea	Incidental Hum (N)	2015 (Bar/None)	USA
Dungen	Sova	Allas Sak (N)	2015 (Kemado)	Sweden
Kurt Vile	Lost My Head There	B'lieve I'm Goin Down... (N)	2015 (Matador)	USA

Guapo	Obscure Knowledge, part 3	Obscure Knowledge (N)	2015 (Cuneiform)	UK