Zappa film soundtrack now available digitally

Alex Winter's film "Zappa" has got many positive reviews, and they are now taking pre-orders for the original motion picture soundtrack. It will be available next year as a 3 CD set and a 5 LP set, but already now on streaming platforms.

The soundtrack includes many songs that appear on earlier albums but also previously unreleased recordings from the Whisky A Go-Go 1968 and Saturday Night Live 1978.

It also includes music that was composed for the film by John Frizzell.

Track list and more information here:

https://www.zappa.com/news/zappa-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-available-today-zappa-recordsume

Al Di Meola presents sequel to Friday Night in San Fransisco

 

Via Al Di Meola's Facebook we learn that there was a “Saturday Night in San Francisco" the night after “Friday Night In San Francisco” at the same Warfield theater from December 1980 with the trio Al Di Meola/John McLaughlin/Paco De Lucia.

The Friday's show was released on the famous album pictured above.

"The tapes had been stored at Al’s studio vault room for 40 years. Now finally after restoring the tapes they will be brought out for release in June or Sept 2021 in the states on the IMPEX - SONY label  and in Europe on EAR MUSIC label . The live recording will feature compositions of John’s “Meeting of the Spirits”, Paco’s “El Panuelo” , Al’s “Splendido Sundance”, Luis Bonfa’s “Black Orpheus”, and each player’s unaccompanied individual solo spot."

New old demo released! Walter Becker: Camilla

 It's been a while but here's another demo from Walter Becker. It's copyright 1996 so probably recorded around the time of his first solo album 11 Tracks of Whack (1994). Give it a listen: